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Realtors are liars.
You can say that again.
The prices of houses should double every ten-fifteen years. Neighborhoods should be filled with people living in homes that they could not afford to buy that day.
Redmond, WA Housing Inventory Surges 127% As Defaults Rise Nationally; Prices Dive 5%
http://www.movoto.com/redmond-wa/market-trends/
Update: “Gas Prices Falling Again”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/consumer/fl-gas-prices-falling-20150316-story.html
Remember- Nothing increases wealth and accelerates the economy like falling housing and oil prices. Nothing.
To believe that the decline in oil is market driven and not government driven, you have to believe the following:
1. A 1% surplus in oil production can cause a 50% drop in in price. The IEA has admitted that in 2015 the world will have a 900,000 barrel surplus with demand that will reach around 94 million barrels.
2. The 25% appreciation in the dollar is due to the “threat” of a .25% increase in interest rates.
3. Finally that according to the latest IEA report we had around 2% increase in the OECD’s storage tanks of oil which includes the U.S. and that somehow is overflowing storage from the report:
“OECD commercial stocks rose by a weaker‐than‐average 23.1 mb in January, to 2 733 mb, trimming their surplus to average levels to 60.3 mb.”
Saudi Arabia has left the battle field of lower prices (probably PS of Obama over Iran) and they could cut their production by a million barrels of day, which would only be a cut of 10%, that would mean if this was market driven they could almost double their revenue by a ten per cent cut.
Saudis hiring shale worker in the news says
Their cheap oil isn’t as plentiful as we believe or they r buying up U.S. oil shale.
My reading suggests the inc in us prof has been mostly offset by declines in north sea prod.
The down side for oil is collapsing economies and efficiency I havnt purchase gas in over a year now and electrics r only getting cheaper and better.
Still shifting some to oil
Saudis hiring shale worker in the news says
Their cheap oil isn’t as plentiful as we believe or they r buying up U.S. oil shale.
They are running out of oil and their shale oil is $100 a barrel oil. They would like to develop their own shale oil deposits and the expertise of our workers would be quite useful. “Twilight in the Desert” is playing out.
It is mostly market driven because the volume of futures contracts and derivatives bought and sold by speculators, hedge funds, investment banks, etc. is far greater than the physical commodity. There is a great deal of leverage used as well. All of this financial trading by quants in suits, who never intend to take physical delivery of the oil, distort the market and can induce wild price swings.
With production at record highs and rising, inventory at record highs and rising and demand falling, what’s not to like about falling oil and fuel prices?
When BUBBLES pop, the overshoot on the low end. DEAL WITH IT.
No, Obama has manipulated the market in a very clumsy fashion. He has overshot on the downside by placing the price below virtually all shale oil production costs, thereby hurting the U.S. more than Russia. Had he taking it down to $80 a barrel, it would have hurt profits in this country but not the ability of the industry to expand and would have hurt Russia without creating serious damage to our industry which actually ends up helping Russia. He overreached.
“Obama.”
Wow, you really are a stupid, stupid man.
All you have is ad hominem attacks, I have explained how this is a war on Putin many times.
Another day, another 2 percent plus drop in the oil price.
And Obama had nothing to do with it; think collapsing demand in China.
And Obama had nothing to do with it; think collapsing demand in China.
Demand in China will increase at least 300,000 barrels a day according to all the estimates. Oil may be dropping most days but have you notice that it still is around 45 a barrel? That is because we are in contango, so the active month which is may is still above $45.
What I’ve noticed, is you called a bottom and it’s continued lower. You were WRONG. DEAL WITH IT.
So falling prices are not based upon supply and demand fundamentals, but rising prices will be. Hey everybody, get a load of this dolt!
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No, Obama has manipulated the market
Adan is wrong again because “Obama manipulated the market”. Perfect.
If Whiting Petroleum cannot make the economics of shale oil work at these prices, no one can:
http://bakkenshale.com/news/whiting-petroleum-is-it-up-for-sale/
It’s the debt, STUPID.
Erin go Bragh
just back from the bakery, we have mint chocolate brownies with little sugar shamrocks on them on sale today, come and get em before theyre all sold out!
A girl in my high school got suspended for baking some of those brownies and bringing them on a field trip where they were enjoyed by fellow students and unfortunately for her one of the teachers.
Erin go Bragh
A little Irish humor for the day. My buddy’s email says it’s true, lol:
“John Bradford, a Dublin University student, was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a big storm.
The night was rolling on and no car went by.
The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him.
Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped.
John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and closed the door…. Only to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn’t on. The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road ahead and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life. Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared out of nowhere through the window, and turned the wheel. John, paralyzed with terror, watched as the hand came through the window, but never touched or harmed him.
Shortly thereafter, John saw the lights of a pub appear down the road, so, gathering strength; he jumped out of the car and ran to it..
Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he had just had.
A silence enveloped the pub when everybody realized he was crying… And wasn’t drunk.
Suddenly, the door opened, and two other people walked in from the dark and stormy night. They, like John, were also soaked and out of breath. Looking around, and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other….
Look Paddy….there’s that fooking idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it!!”
“Look Paddy….”
I asked yesterday but you didn’t reply, what is the demographic of your customers generally?
He’s joking about running an MJ store. He works for a FedGov contractor.
That ended in 2014 yo
A red state nightmare…Mandatory voter registration;
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEkQqQIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2015%2F03%2F17%2Foregon-is-first-state-to-adopt-automatic-voter-registration%2F&ei=GzgIVYXKK4axogSTr4HwBA&usg=AFQjCNGEqK3XZovpH1cndTxYd2iYUxmxSg&sig2=2FuTdOweA0IARWSCOxTGvQ&bvm=bv.88528373,d.cGU
That ended in 2014 yo
Did you experience a big reduction income by making that move?
I work at a few different locations, but the customers are pretty similar. Paralleling the demographics of Denver in general, majority white, some Latino, and a sprinkling of blacks and Asians.
The morning and early afternoon customers are people who don’t work traditional dayjobs (or any job at all) and are more likely to pay in cash, mostly buying 1/8 or 1/4 ounces and/or small quantities of edibles. After about 3pm, lots of people, mostly male, dressed like they work in construction or other trades. After 5pm, more white-collar dayjob types, and they are more likely to buy hash oil for vaporizing, than weed for smoking, and they LOVE edibles. Weekend customers are all of the above, but with many more older (mostly white) customers, many of whom come in from outer suburbs where there are no dispensaries.
The downtown dispensaries sell the same products for much higher prices, because they have to pay downtown rents. Some of them are really, really nice, almost like boutique jewelry stores.
South Broadway between Evans and Alameda is the highest concentration of recreational dispensaries anywhere in the world. It’s called the “Green Mile” and the rents are much, much lower than downtown.
It sounds like it’s becoming more socially acceptable. Is the “freedom of religion” crowd still trying to take away the rights of users, or has the whole controversy died down?
Allowing sale of recreational weed is decided on a county and municipal level. The city of Colorado Springs, traditionally more conservative and Christian than the rest of the state, bans it. And it is the second largest city in the state…
Maybe that’s why God occasionally smites them with mud slides and forest fires. Nice downtown though.
I work at a few different locations
How uniquely American.
Soon the MJ will be run by a govt contract, like the state liquor stores in PA.
$2,000 a pound is the typical spot price for black market, untaxed weed here. If a 12 pack of beer was $50 at the official government store, people wouldn’t pay that, they’d get their beer from somewhere else.
Why can’t they grant themselves a monopoly and charge what you do? Not just extra tax dollars but all extra dollars. Earn while you can.
Sláinte!
Big fat main headline on NBC news dot com is “American Dream Home: What’s the Middle Class Without a House?” With the usual sob story about a family who all lost “equity.” I’ll extract the parts about one of the family members for your reading pleasure. The numbers aren’t adding up.
Some numbers — on the North Side of Milwaukee, there are almost NO houses priced at more than $150K. Tonya Adair bought her house before 2003, so it was certainly less than $150K.
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MILWAUKEE, Wisc.—There was a feeling Tonya Adair had when she would return to her house after a day teaching math in a Milwaukee middle school. Her three kids would be upstairs, and she’d take a moment to herself. “I guess it was just a sense of being at ease with nobody watching, no landlord.” Adair, 47, says now. “It’s important to have something that’s your own.”
…Last year, Adair found herself behind on her mortgage, and was pressed to sell her Milwaukee house in a short sale. She now rents a Milwaukee condo.
…And when Adair married and had children, she and her family moved to Milwaukee where she took a job as a teacher and took out a mortgage on a modest three-bedroom house across the street from a playground on Milwaukee’s north side.
…”I thought about it as something that would be in the family and would be an investment for the family,” Adair says. “That’s how it was growing up — an investment.”
…But the events of the next decade turned her investment into a loss. When Adair and her husband divorced in 2003, she began to struggle to meet the monthly payments, especially in the summer when school was out. She refinanced the mortgage, which lightened her monthly burden, but two years later, she says the mortgage bills exploded to $1,400 each month. Adair had been sold a predatory refinancing loan; the kind that lenders pushed on many borrowers, especially blacks and Latinos, and later helped tank the economy.
Last year, Adair, who by then had become the principal of a Milwaukee high school, narrowly avoided foreclosure through a short sale. Though she was earning a solid middle class income of about $100,000 a year, she was supporting herself through graduate school and one of her sons through college, plus paying a growing mortgage.
“It was just not possible anymore,” she said.
…Adair estimates that in her case, the short sale stripped her of $60,000 in equity, nearly all her wealth at the time. She’s like many families in this regard: assets are overwhelmingly concentrated in home equity.
…Adair and her youngest son now live in a condo unit she rents from an acquaintance… She recalled a recent encounter with a new neighbor told her that the building had taken a turn for the worse since condo owners began renting their units.
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“Adair …”
… who teaches math so she should have known better …
“… had been sold a predatory refinancing loan; the kind that lenders pushed on many borrowers, especially blacks and Latinos, and later helped tank the economy.”
“She refinanced the mortgage, which lightened her monthly burden, but two years later, she says the mortgage bills exploded to $1,400 each month.”
Exploded! Her mortgage bills exploded! Most likely a totally unforeseen event, probably brought about by a simple but pesky word such as “adjustable”.
…”I thought about it as something that would be in the family and would be an investment for the family,” Adair says. “That’s how it was growing up — an investment.”
There is the first big mistake.
People keep being fooled by NAR but you cannot control the value of your neighborhood. No matter how great you upkeep your house.
This is just a story of someone living beyond her means. She makes a 100K income, off in summers?
EZ credit ripoffs.
Thank you all for answering.
That $100K is what struck me the most — and why I posted the article.
– If she’s making $100K, she doesn’t need to spend money on more graduate school.
– She makes $100K but she can’t pay a $1400 mortgage payment?
– We don’t have enough info about that re-fi. The key word is a “growing” mortgage. My guess is she did a full-cash-out refi for ~$170K (bubble peak) — probably an option I/O with a balloon somewhere. That would get her to $1400/month. Even so, she STILL should have been able to support that house on her income.
IMO, I don’t judge first-time buyers too much, but re-fi’s get zip zero sympathy for me. They know the process and deserve to be fried.
Maybe her financial troubles had something to do with the ex-husband? No mention of his career, if any. No mention of the terms of the divorce, almoney, child support. Or the son in college…
She refinanced the mortgage, which lightened her monthly burden, but two years later, she says the mortgage bills exploded to $1,400 each month. Adair had been sold a predatory refinancing loan; the kind that lenders pushed on many borrowers, especially blacks and Latinos, and later helped tank the economy.
It is interesting how the left likes to have it both ways. They will deny up and down that the CRA signed into law by Carter was the major reason the economy tanked, but they are constantly running stories that the economy tanked due to the large number of “predatory” loans made to minorities. Those loans were designed to give loans to people with poor credit and no down payments, thus they had higher interest rates due to the increased risk. This was blessed by government and in fact Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought up these loans. They were not considered predatory when homes were going up 20% a year allowing the “homeowners” to refinance every few years. They only became “predatory” when home prices began to fall.
Adair had been sold a predatory refinancing loan; the kind that lenders pushed on many borrowers, especially blacks and Latinos, and later helped tank the economy.
It’s Official: Americans R Stupid
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/its-official-americans-r-stupid
Not only is she stupid, she’s a stupid math teacher who couldn’t understand the math of the mortgage she signed. This is wrong on many levels.
I had a friend who did accounting. He could balance his employers books just fine, but he’d constantly be running out of his money every month. I couldn’t grasp how he couldn’t balance his own checkbook but he could his employers.. the only difference was a couple of less zeros on his bank statements.
It’s Official: Americans R Stupid
Does that mean that you’re stupid?
That means that!
ffffrrrrrrrrauuuuuuud
It is interesting how the left likes to have it both ways. They will deny up and down that the CRA signed into law by Carter was the major reason the economy tanked, but they are constantly running stories that the economy tanked due to the large number of “predatory” loans made to minorities.
No they don’t “lawyer”. You’re twisting things again. Actually in both cases, the minorities’ loan numbers were too small by themselves to “tank the economy”.
Falling prices Lola. Falling prices.
Why do reporters feel the need to write these phony sob stories? Now she lives in a condo that has taken a turn for the worse because it has renters in it. I guess renters are second class citizens to “owners.” Why are the condo “owners” renting their condos? Because no one wants to buy them. I may be a second class citizen, but at least I wasn’t dumb enough to put my money into a bottomless pit of falling prices and association fees.
In addition to low demand if a complex exceeds 50% or so rentals it can be nearly impossible for a potential buyer to get a mortgage…once things get to that point the “value” of the units takes a BIG drop.
Definitely agree on many of the RE sob stories I’ve read in various papers, often it is clear within a paragraph or so that there is MUCH more to the story and that the sobbing is very likely the result of a series of very bad decisions and habits…that always has been the case with several coworkers that “lost” their houses too. No doubt there are plenty of cases where responsible people lose work through no fault of their own, get sick, etc. and just can’t hang on…but evidently those people don’t generally blab to the local paper.
I thought that was the icing on the ironic cake. She lost her own home and is now helping some other schmo to keep his home.
Do you have a case of the FOMC rate hike jitters?
they will sink the economy faster if they raise rates.
they need to loosen and refinancing standards so people can get a lower rate. but instead they want to steal your house.
Bring them on and rapidly please.
I want the debt payouts to crowd out the defense spending. A 3% (up from 0.2%) federal funds rate is about $510 billion more in interest to pay. That money has to come from somewhere. It’s not going to come from more loose money. It has to come from the taxpayers.
I want to see the taxes go up at least 50% so that the dam conservatives will be shaken off their fascist imperialist drive. The U.S. government has to stop being world cop.
“stop being world cop”
SHHH, don’t say that here, or all the paid neocon trolls will call you a commie!
It’s eerily quiet… the shrieking tree monkeys are wide eyed, stunned into silence.
I agree with that. But also protect yourself.
That money has to come from somewhere.
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US Federal Spending - Fiscal Year 2014
Department of Defense: 17%
Entitlements: 60%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/media/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2011.png
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/f-35-fighter-plane-costs-103579.html
$163 Billion over budget last year. For one fighter program. But at least all that money is going to white guys in suits, right?
Entitlements: 60% ??
Here is the problem with your logic 2-friut…You, along with your neocon right wing friends want to frame “entitlement” as the Free Chit Army….By definition, entitlement says the you have a “right” to something…So, just like your pension or your 401k there are some of us that have paid into SS for 40+ years…Do I feel that I have a “right” to receive SS ?? You damm right I do…If the misfits in DC pissed it away on the military or anything else thats there problem not mine…
I have a right to have brown people half way across the planet blown up on my behalf, too. This is so much more valuable to me than decent infrastructure and schools.
Anyone who votes to allow “fiscal conservatives” to cut social security deserves to live on cat food for the rest of their lives.
“Anyone who votes to allow “fiscal conservatives” to cut social security deserves to live on cat food for the rest of their lives.”
According to Social Security records the rest of their lives could be a long, long time.
Flawed Social Security data say 6.5 million Americans are older than 112 years
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, March 16, 2015, 9:50 AM
WASHINGTON — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112.
In reality, only few could possibly be alive. As of last fall, there were only 42 people known to be that old in the entire world.
But Social Security does not have death records for millions of these people, with the oldest born in 1869, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general.
http://www.nydailynews.com/…wed-social-security-data-6-5m-reach-age-112-article-1.2150720
SCDave,
The problem isn’t with SS. The benefits are not totally out of whack with what has been (and is being) paid in. The Bowles/Simpson plan had a pretty straightforward and simple solution to SS that wouldn’t/shouldn’t have caused too much consternation.
The problem is with Medicare. The last estimate I saw was that people on average receive payments out at a rate of roughly 3 times what they put in.
Medicare is the entitlement that is the major problem with the US fiscal situation.
But Social Security does not have death records for millions of these people
It had to be 15 years ago I was in a restaurant and overheard an elderly gentleman telling his friends at the table that he was still collecting his late wife’s social security. They were aghast. He replied “I’m 80(something) years old. What are they going to do to me?”
They’ll cut the EBT, disability and means test Social Security long before they mess with the Military Industrial Complex.
I agree Shillow…
I want to see the taxes go up at least 50%
as long as you can evade them, eh?
who says? Come and look at the books I keep.
Bulletin U.S. stocks open lower as Fed kicks off two-day monetary-policy meeting
Market Snapshot
U.S. stocks: Futures dip as pre-FOMC jitters grow
Published: Mar 17, 2015 9:01 a.m. ET
All eyes on Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen.
By Anora Mahmudova
Reporter
Barbara Kollmeyer
Markets reporter
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Wall Street’s strong start to the week looked to be fading 24 hours later, as a report pointed to slack in new home construction and investors attention turned squarely to the start of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday.
European stocks, which have been enjoying a climb higher fueled, in part, by the European Central Bank bond-buying program, also halted their ascent.
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“The best argument for the dollar weakness and equity rally is the growing consensus that as the FOMC removes the term ‘patient,’ the action will be accompanied by new assurances meant to keep markets satiated,” said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading, in a note to clients.
Softer data Monday also gave stocks a lift as it contributed to the view that the Fed may be pushing the timing of a rate hike further out. The highly anticipated Fed meeting will conclude Wednesday with a policy statement to follow.
In Tuesday’s economic news, construction on new U.S. homes slumped in February, mostly due to harsh winter, but permits jumped, suggestion construction will pick up in the spring.
U.S. stocks rose Monday, rebounding after three consecutive weeks of declines. A slight decline in the U.S. dollar and gains in European stocks contributed to the market’s positive tone. Valeant revised its deal to acquire Salix.
Alvin T. Tan, currency strategist at Société Générale, said in a note that the pullback for the greenback has also been inspired by speculation that, in a long-dollar market, the Fed might turn more cautious following the strong dollar trend in recent months. The greenback (DXY, -0.29%) was flat against major currencies on Tuesday.
Tan said he thinks the dollar still has room to advance over the medium term, as the market still isn’t close to pricing in a Fed June rate hike.
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Other markets: Losses for European stocks dragged stock futures lower, with the Stoxx Europe (600 SXXP, -0.96%) down further after German ZEW economic sentiment data fell short of expectations. In Asia, a strong run continued for certain markets. The Nikkei 225 index (NIK, +0.99%) scored a new 15-year closing high after the Bank of Japan stood pat on interest rates, while Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP, +1.55%) stocks closed above the 3,500 mark for the first time in nearly seven years.
Oil prices (CLJ5, -0.73%) continued to weaken, with WTI contract falling below $43 a barrel, while gold prices GCJ5, -0.74% also inched lower.
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Are all of the people who get paid by William Kristol and Sheldon Adelson to post here gonna cry if Bibi loses the election today?
Netanyahu said last night there won’t be a Palestinean state as long as he is re-elected
But Palestineans are brown, and nothing, repeat nothing, rallies the base more than dropping bombs on brown people
And now back to your regularly scheduled Drudge Report links
Top article on the World Net Daily website is an article titled “Feds Soft-Pedal Terror Threat From Iran” with a photograph of the twin towers as the second plane hit
Twelve years ago this week, American taxpayers and voters were manipulated into allowing the invasion of Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11
But photos of the burning World Trade Center are a pretty good tool of emotional manipulation, one of the best tools in the neocon toolbox when it’s time to “rally the base”
And cueing up the HBB’s resident paid neocon trolls, expect them to call everyone who opposes war in Iran a communist, or if that doesn’t work, pull the Nazi card
Fugeddaboudit. This is sooooooooo yesterday. It’s all about Russia now. And Pooty-poot. And I see the neolibs on here are on board with that. Heaven forbid Beau Biden should lose his gig.
Iran needs nuclear bombs and the ability to produce and distribute more. The majority of cranks here support this happening or simply ignore it because they hate what George Bush did.
No reasonable alternative or solution is offered.
We could send the millions of conservative voting, fighting age chicken hawks to patrol Tehran after the invasion. But if they knew they would actually have to put their own lives on the line, they would much rather negotiate.
You don’t need an invasion to take out their nuclear capability.
What’s your plan, Shillow?
What’s your plan, Shillow?
Shillow has no rational plans. Shillow fashions himself as an American smiter. When asked if The USA could be in a position to nuke 16 or more Iranian sites and the 100 years of blow-back that would entail, his response was basically “so be it”. (It was about 5 days ago.) Which in the context of a global world trying to negotiate coexistence, is insane imo.
in·sane
inˈsān/
in a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.
My plan is to blow up any facilities being built to produce nukes. And keep doing it. And tell them we’ll do it. We have plenty of satellite coverage that can figure this stuff out. If it is buried in a mountain. Then turn the mountain to glass. Don’t let any other countries get nukes. I don’t care if that is not seen as fair. Too bad.
My plan is to blow up any facilities being built to produce nukes. And keep doing it.
Shillow and the USA are God. We should nuke. Nuke ‘em all.
I don’t care if that is not seen as fair. Too bad.
Right. Why would you care?
sociopath
a person …who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
BS. USA is not a Sociopathic nation.
Then turn the mountain to glass.
You talk a mean game from your Lazy-Boy.
If we hadn’t been f**cking with their government for the last 60 years, always on the verge of invading their country, they MIGHT not be so hot to get a nuke to deter us.
This is yet another sh*t sandwich we have made ourselves.
Or maybe they still would, who knows, but this doesn’t deal with whether you think they should be able too have them and what that means for the future.
Or maybe they still would, who knows, but this doesn’t deal with whether you think they should be able too have them and what that means for the future.
Exactly. Now on to the related Iraqi war where we should definitely avoid the boots on the ground except maybe some forward observers for air strikes. The U.S. against ISIS is the type of asymmetric warfare you try to stay out of for practical reasons even if there are good strategic reasons to be involved which I do not see here. We would only be making Iran’s takeover of Iraq less costly.
But here is the practical problem. Iraq has stopped the “liberation” of Tikrit due to 60 to 100 deaths per day of their soldiers (Mainly Iran backed Shiite militias). ISIS is using a small numbers of snipers and IEDs to inflict amazing damage on the Iraqi forces. Unfortunately, these would be the perfect tactics against our troops, so that is quagmire you do not want to enter.
So Iran gets nukes. Sanctions aren’t going to stop it, and we’re obviously too chickensh*t to finish what we started there… just like everywhere else we’ve invaded in the last 70 years.
It’s disgusting.
It’s disgusting ??
Whats more disgusting is the Military (and their perasites that feed off them) are more than willing to fight limited wars that cost 10’s of thousands of casualties…
Its like getting in a fist fight…You don’t discuss the rules of what is fair…You fight to win…
If we wanted to fight to win, it would not cost us one American casualty…So, either fight to win, or don’t fight at all…
Iran needs nuclear bombs and the ability to produce and distribute more. The majority of cranks here support this happening or simply ignore it because they hate what George Bush did.
I count 4 straw-man “arguments” there.
(But there may be 5.)
Breaking news: some nutjob just rushed the cockpit of a United Airlines flight yelling “jihad” and was taken down by other passengers
William Kristol is smiling and fondling coins in his pocket thinking about this…
The Soros brigade is out early today. We’ll see if your communist rent-a-mob emergency dispatch works out for your team of marxist indoctrinated malcontents.
Middle eastern Jews and Christians are also brown people. Apparently only psychopathic Islamists get most favored brown people status from their brothers and sisters in the marxist and global progressive community.
#PickYourBrown
you are a joke
You do realize that every single one of Bootsie’s posts is sarcastic, and likely chemically fueled.
Real journalists at the Washington Post actually admit that Michael Brown’s shooting was justified, and state that he is an “inappropriate symbol” for protests against police violence against black people
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/
Not that any of this matters to the Social Justice Warriors™
Guess who’s in the Muslim Brotherhood (as well as the closet) according to our man Glenn Beck? Heeeeres…Grover!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/03/16/nra_investigates_grover_norquist_as_glenn_beck_says_he_is_a_muslim_brotherhood.html
Glenn Beck Thinks Grover Norquist Is a Muslim Brotherhood Mole. Now, the NRA Is “Investigating.”
Glenn Beck, Grover Norquist, the NRA, and the Muslim Brotherhood, all in one article?
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
I’d like to hear more about your pot business. How similar is it to a liquor store?
You have to show ID before you can even walk in the door. Depending on which location I’m in, no more than 3 to 5 customers are allowed past the lobby / waiting area at a time. Yes, we take credit and debit cards, but some other dispensaries are cash only. We don’t staff each location with an armed guard, but we hire one from a staffing service when moving large amounts of cash around.
Go watch the show “Pot Barons of Colorado” about the biz, it’s a pretty accurate overview. It’s been over 70 degrees here the past few days, when you drive through the intersection of Santa Fe and Mississippi with your windows down you can smell all the commercial grow ops, we get some of our product from there.
Thanks, that is interesting.
Marijuana is the Islam of inhaled toxins. Meaning it’s okay to fill your lungs and the surrounding air with marijuana smoke, but the use of tobacco in any form is equivalent to homicide.
Is there some type of revolutionary marxist flow chart that explains how certain movements, products, religions, races, words and phrases get a free pass?
#PleaseExplain
clubber lang = reedalberger, trolling for big tobacco it’s so obvious
and ben jones has the ip logs to prove it
Marijuana is the Islam of inhaled toxins……but the use of tobacco in any form is equivalent to homicide
USA? Not even close. Get real.
How can the NRA investigate? Aren’t they the ones who want to make it easier for terrorists to get guns?
No, they are the ones that want Americans to be able to protect themselves against terrorists when they start shooting up the mall instead of being ducks in a shooting gallery.
It’s not an either or thing. They want both.
Show me a policy statement by the NRA to arm terrorists. Keeping guns from serious criminals and the insane has not been a problem for the NRA and I don’t think they would have a problem with keeping guns from terrorists.
” Keeping guns from serious criminals and the insane has not been a problem for the NRA”
Aren’t they the guys who oppose background checks at gun shows, or everywhere for that matter?
Clearly - It’s Bush’s fault.
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Ferguson home values are plummeting, and residents are feeling the pain
http://fusion.net | 3/16/15 | Daniel Rivero
FERGUSON, Mo. — Peering outside the office window of his tire shop, John Zisser grumbles about the pile of burnt rubble that lies on the opposite corner of a busy intersection.
“If you come here to my shop and you see that,” he says, as gestures out the window, “is that going to give you a warm, fuzzy feeling like you want to come back here to do business?”
“Short answer: no, no it’s not,” he says.
Zisser, 55, has owned and operated Zisser’s Tires in this city since 1987. He says the still-visible damage from the November protests that followed a grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown is hurting property owners. His store’s insurance is in the process of being cancelled after it was twice vandalized during the unrest, he says.
“If I sold this place today, I could probably get $300,000 for it, if anyone is crazy enough to buy. Last year, the county said this lot was worth almost a million,” he says. “The value here is all going down. There’s about nine burnt-out buildings this way,” he says, pointing. “And about four more behind me.”
The average selling price of a home in the city has been on a steady decline since the shooting of Brown last August, according to housing data compiled from MARIS, an information and statistics service for real estate agents. Prior to Brown’s death, the average home sold in 2014 was selling for $66,764. For the last three and a half months of the year, the average home sold for $36,168, a 46 percent decrease.
Turns out running a shakedown operation isn’t a viable long-term governing system.
Is there any other kind in a democrat strong hold?
Both “sides” have them. There’s many a hick red town that funds itself with speed traps and asset seizure. I-10 runs a notorious gauntlet of them.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/f-35-fighter-plane-costs-103579.html
The F35 fighter jet program was $163 Billion over budget last year. I wonder how much that number has increased since then?
“The F35 fighter jet program was $163 Billion over budget last year. I wonder how much that number has increased since then?”
Probably a lot.
August 28, 2008
Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver
“I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy.”
Inaugural Address
By President Barack Hussein Obama
Macon Phillips
January 21, 2009
“And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
Now remember - there are NO differences in political parties when democrats are in charge. What else could they do? They are all just puppets to big money and wall street.
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Cruz slams amnesty to illegals
The Boston Herald | March 17, 2015 | Staff
Q: Here in Massachusetts there’s a lot of us worried about the illegal immigration problem, and now we got the president’s amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants to start off with. Has this ship sailed or could a President Cruz do something about this?
A: The president’s executive amnesty — it is wrong. It is unfair to millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules. And it’s patently unconstitutional. … And indeed, someone who styles himself a constitutional scholar 22 times publicly made the point that it exceeds the president’s authority to do that, and that person of course is Barack Obama, who 22 times previously said he had no authority to grant amnesty. In fact, in one of the times he explained, ‘I am not an emperor.’ Well, apparently after this last election after Democrats got walloped he discovered he was an emperor, and so he illegally and unconstitutionally granted amnesty to 4.5 million people.
I along with millions of people across this country was heartbroken when Republican leadership just a couple of weeks ago capitulated entirely on amnesty. … But there is a silver lining … another branch of the government is doing its job, and that is Article 3, the federal judiciary. A federal court in the state of Texas has issued an injunction preventing President Obama’s executive amnesty from going into effect.
Q: I understand you’ve also been looking to see if the Obama administration has been breaking that court order?
A: That is exactly right … we will hold additional hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee to ascertain the degree to which the Obama administration is complying with that order. They need to obey the injunction from the federal court. They say that they are, but at the same time the federal court is having hearings on whether they have gone ahead and processed a number of amnesty applications in direct defiance of what they told the federal court what they would do.
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DHS: Obama Amnesty Could Need 3,100 New Bureaucrats, $484 Million a Year
CNS News | March 16, 2015 | Brittany M. Hughes
If President Barack Obama’s immigration plan gets past a federal court injunction and 60 percent of illegals apply for deferred action protection under the plan, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency projects that it may have to hire an additional 3,100 employees, with a total program cost of up to $484 million a year.
In a detailed response to questions from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee about the cost of processing the illegals at a newly rented facility in Arlington, Va., the USCIS said “planning was based on the assumption that 60 percent of all individuals who may be considered for DACA or DAPA would elect to file a request.” (See Responses to Questions from Grassley-Johnson-Sessions 02.26.15 (3).pdf)
“Should that initial planning estimate hold true and the injunction were lifted, USCIS might ultimately need to increase its hiring plan up to a total of 3,100 new employees at an annual cost of $184.3 million, and total program costs of between $324 and $484 million per year,” said the agency in its response to Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), and Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).
Ted Cruz’s wife works for Goldman Sachs yo
Where’s the bill that funds the deportations, from the identification to the bus ride?
Bills? A legislative process? The rule of law?
How quaint you still believe in all that.
obama has shown us the new way.
Why don’t the republicans who control both houses of congress simply pass a law making it a felony to hire an illegal? They could stop illegal immigration with a snap of their fingers, but I guess they’re too busy picking their noses.
They don’t pass it for the same reason democrats don’t.
They all want more migrants.
There are already laws on the books for that.
Why are not these laws enforced?
Would news laws help the non-enforcement of already existing laws?
Who controls the executive branch?
Why don’t perform their Constitutional duties and enforce the laws?
“There are already laws on the books for that.”
There aren’t strict laws, there are just rules that aren’t enforced. It’s funny that you think republicans actually care about illegal immigration. It’s just another phony scandal to keep people like you outraged.
One of my best employees was deported so I am one of the ‘felons’ that you are after.
Your plan is flawed, I have hired dozens of aliens but they have valid documents when I hire them. Mostly they have work visas.
When their legal status turns illegal is the point when you want to prosecute me?
Your plan is flawed, I have hired dozens of aliens but they have valid documents when I hire them. Mostly they have work visas.
When their legal status turns illegal is the point when you want to prosecute me?
Don’t the work visas have expiration dates printed on them?
She can work with your all-seeing tv.
Advocates Call Talking Barbie ‘Surveillance Barbie’
BY LAUREN WALKER 3/13/15 AT 12:54 PM
Newsweek
Slated for release this fall, “Hello Barbie” is able to have two-way conversations, play interactive games, tell stories and joke around, all thanks to a Wi-Fi connection.
By pressing a button on Barbie’s belt buckle, a child’s voice is picked up by an embedded microphone and transmitted to the servers of ToyTalk, a San Francisco–based startup. After processing the audio with voice-recognition software, ToyTalk uses this information to build a database of a child’s likes and dislikes, as well as craft a response that emits from Barbie’s built-in speaker.
…privacy concerns are not limited to children—she worries that Barbie will also be able to pick up and transmit private family interactions. “Parents who sign that permission…are basically allowing corporate surveillance in their homes,” she said.
http://www.newsweek.com/privacy-advocates-want-take-wifi-connected-hello-barbie-offline-313432
The scary thing is I think a lot of parents will be into this. A barbie that talks to my kids so I don’t have to? Perfect! Next, they’ll be marketing them like baby monitors. ‘Let barbie watch your kids for you. She’s also a smoke detector, GPS, and wi-fi hot spot! Fallen and you can’t get up? Let barbie call 911!’
With the stupidity quotient of ‘Muricans being off the charts, as evidenced by the last two elections, this creepy Orwellian kiddie conditioner is bound to be a bestseller.
The 5 Most Profound Political Quotes Of The Last 5 Years
Townhall.com | March 17, 2015 | John Hawkins
“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” – Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi’s shameful utterance about Obamacare has become the standard in America over the last few years. Enormous bills are put together in secret; the public is deliberately misled about what the legislation does; politicians don’t even bother to read what they’re voting on and then it takes years for the courts to finish ruling on what the hundreds of pages of tortured legalisms actually mean. That’s no way to run a country and it’s no wonder that both politicians and the law itself are increasingly held in contempt if that’s the best we can do.
4) “The real story is that our social safety net was supposed to be like one of those, ‘Take a Penny, Leave a Penny’ tills that depend on the honor and neighborliness of a community. And we don’t have that community. What we have is a fragmented mess of givers and takers who are not the same people.” — Daniel Greenfield
3) “Compromise is very difficult in a political environment in which a deal is not a deal. Whether the question is trading robust immigration enforcement for an amnesty benefiting those illegals already present in the country or trading tax increases for spending cuts according to some agreed-upon ratio, the main obstacle is not ideology or partisan self-interest, but the belief – a well-justified belief – that cutting a long-term deal is pointless, because such deals will not stand.” — Kevin Williamson
2) ”I think the problem with the Right…is…they don’t like blood in the water. I mean that in a figurative sense. They don’t like shaking things up. They’re afraid to be effective because to be effective is to be hated.” — James O’Keefe
1) “Politics is downstream from culture.” — Andrew Breitbart
So, you are quoting Andrew Breitbart? He was the journalistic equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Or hitler? Despite that, his quote is correct. Politics is downstream from culture. Society is also not the government.
“Deficits don’t matter. Ray-gun proved it.” - Dick “Half Robot” Cheney
Number 4 is just angry and incoherent. The origins of this anger requires research. Is it ginned up out of nothing, or is it displaced from other sources?
I agree. What does BruisedBanana have against Social Security? If he doesn’t like it, he doesn’t have to collect it. Or he can send it to me.
The anger is from seeing life has passed him by, and that he has no purpose in the world. His boredom drives him to seek stimulation through the Rage Channel. Then he comes here and barfs it up so he can feel like a part of something.
I see it in my dad and uncles, and their friends. What could be a pleasant retirement is an exercise in self torture, gnashing their teeth impotently about whatever Fox has fed them today.
“Most Transparent Administration Ever” Is No More: White House To Delete Its FOIA Regulations
Zero Hedge | 3/17/15
As reported moments ago, the White House is voiding a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA (incidentally the same act that discovered none of Hillary Clinton’s “personal” government-business emails since they were not even stored on government property!).
And just like that the lie of Obama’s transparency is over, and it couldn’t come at a worse time for the democratic party, just as its top contender for the 2016 presidential race is struggling to emerge from a cover-up scandal which reeks of intentional hiding of classified documentation from the public (or worse). Going forward it will no longer be Hillary Clinton who will be mocked and ridiculed for her total impunity when it comes to public accountability and transparency, but the “most untransparent” president as well.
The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails.
What President Jarrett wants, President Jarrett gets.
Sad pandas have no comments.
Someone here last year sais she’s an Iranian witch. Maybe that’s why Obama wants Iran to have the bomb.
Nowruzetan Mobarak! (Applause.)
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
And remember - it is not about Green Beer.
The True Story of St Patrick:
No reparations? No affirmative action? No excuses for being a thug? No Irish Jesse Jacksons? No Irish guilt?
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Patrick was born around 385 in Scotland, probably Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies.
As a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him.
During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. He wrote
“The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same.” “I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.”
Patrick’s captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast. There he found some sailors who took him back to Britian, where he reunited with his family.
He began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre, whom he had studied under for years.
Later, Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland. He arrived in Ireland March 25, 433, at Slane. One legend says that he met a chieftain of one of the tribes, who tried to kill Patrick. Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.
Patrick began preaching the Gospel throughout Ireland, converting many. He and his disciples preached and converted thousands and began building churches all over the country. Kings, their families, and entire kingdoms converted to Christianity when hearing Patrick’s message.
Patrick by now had many disciples, among them Beningnus, Auxilius, Iserninus, and Fiaac, (all later canonized as well).
Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland for 40 years. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions. After years of living in poverty, traveling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461.
Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle man, whose love and total devotion to and trust in God should be a shining example to each of us. He feared nothing, not even death, so complete was his trust in God, and of the importance of his mission.
Thanks for posting.
Now that Senator Inhofe can’t find a snowball to take to the Senate floor to “prove” that global warming is a lie, how will he spin the coming of warm weather, and what Bible verse will he quote this time? I’m sure the oil companies pay this man a lot of money to whore his religion for them.
How about this one?
“What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’ ”
– Jesus
So it’s alright if Inhofe eats the money the oil companies give him, but he can’t cough it up?
” but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’ ”
– Jesus
Sounds like a biblical warning against the dangers of carbon dioxide: “what comes out of his mouth”. There you have it. It is Written.
Amen.
Chinese stocks hitting a seven year high:
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-03/17/content_19835201.htm
So…Others are also…The question Adan is why…Hint…Its not about 7% GDP…
But unlike most countries China has real interest rates meaning their interest rates are set reasonably above the inflation rate. Thus, they are further from a collapse or even a hard landing than most countries despite the MSM trying to suggest otherwise.
http://www.mining.com/potash-producers-rejoice-china-likely-to-pay-more-for-it-this-year/
The government is squeezing the funny money out of the shadow banking system, so it’s all running to the stock market. Their stock market is no more based on reality than ours.
Happy St. Patrick’s day, everyone. May the odds be forever in your favor.
Thank you.
My brother and I will be at the Irish club test tasting their individual kegs of Guiness to make sure they are all suitable for family and friend consumption.
Power to the People — how rooftop solar energy makes energy more democratic
“Small-Scale Solar Contributes 13% of New Power Plant Capacity in 2014
The sustained growth of small scale solar continues the unraveling of the utility’s unnatural monopoly. It also brings a sharper focus on the $48 billion opportunity for U.S. electricity customers in energy efficiency and distributed renewable energy development. …We’re nearing the turning point toward a more democratic energy system.”
http://ilsr.org/small-scale-solar-contributes-13-power-plants-2014/
Oil, gas and coal are dying a slow death by a thousand cuts — one solar rooftop at a time.
Power to the People — how rooftop solar energy makes energy more democratic
Well, at least as long as the massive federal subsidies hold out…
I think you meant to say the fossil fuel monopolies.
Nothing like a 75% federal subsidy and grants to make things more “equal.”
I have also seen plenty of zero down solar panel installation offers in my neck of the woods. Sub-prime is not just for housed and cars!
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Economic Subsidies for Solar Power
sunlightelectric.com
There are two subsidies that together can reduce the cost of a commercial solar power system by 70-75% of the original installed price.
1. Federal Investment Tax Credit for Commercial Solar Energy Property
Businesses investing in solar energy equipment and its installation can take 30% of the total project costs (including supporting structures and new roofing installed in conjunction with PV systems).
Alternatively, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides for a Renewable Energy Grant, administered by the US Department of Treasury, equal to the 30% Investment Tax Credit. There is an online application process, and applications are currently being accepted.
Grants are available to customers purchasing solar power systems placed in service before the end of 2010 or after 2010 if construction begins on the property during 2009 or 2010 and the property is placed in service by Jan 1, 2017.
2. MACRS Accelerated Depreciation
Investment in solar power generating equipment and its installation are subject to 5-year accelerated depreciation under the IRS’ Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System. Inexplicably, though solar power equipment is considered a 5-year asset, fully depreciating it takes six years.
Do we have to send troops to the other side of the world to defend solar energy fields and shipping lanes? No?
Well, that should save a little money, and lives. But I can see why the military-industrial complex, and their hangers-on, might not like it.
solar=FAIL
Psalm 12.8 - This is the time we live in. Go look it up y’all.
They say y’all in Chicago? I thought they said you awll in Chicawgo.
Smiling there D man!!! Kinda like the Bears fans - esp. those two on the airplane with Aaron Rogers last year - THAT is the Chicaaago accent.
Feds shell out $125B in bogus payments last year
More than 6 million folks who are listed as 112 years of age or older get social security
by Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times | March 17, 2015
The government paid out $124.7 billion in potentially bogus payments last year, the government’s chief watchdog said Monday, blaming a controversial tax credit for the poor as well as increased bad payments in Medicare and Medicaid.
One major problem is tracking when Americans die — the Social Security Administration admitted last week that its rolls are filled with names of more than 6 million folks who are listed as 112 years of age or older.
The Government Accountability Office said Social Security has trouble maintaining the Death Master File, and other agencies have difficulties in getting the information to update their own files and halt payments to those no longer alive to collect benefits.
5.4 Million homes still underwater in U.S.
IRVINE
March 17, 2015 5:29am
Although 1.2 million borrowers saw their homes move into positive equity in 2014, the total number of mortgaged residential properties with negative equity totaled 5.4 million, or 10.8 percent of all mortgaged properties by the end of the year, according to a new report Tuesday from financial information company CoreLogic Inc. (NYSE: CLGX) of Irvine.
The dawning of the New Year saw approximately 44.5 million (or 89 percent) of all mortgaged properties with some level of positive equity, the report says. Nationwide, borrower equity increased year over year by $656 billion in Q4 2014.
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=27964
Your daily update of news from the cesspool called ILLANNOY…..
Some tea party candidate this guy is - what a shill……
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/16/rep-aaron-schocks-associates-contacted-in-spending-investigation/
“I can rub people the wrong way. I talk when I should listen. I own that.”
Very truly yours,
Rahm “Dead Fish” Emmanuel
Soon to be former Mayor of Chicago
Because folks its ALL about the children….
“We’ve got two gangbangers, one standing next to a kid. Get away from that kid. Take your stuff away to the alley. Don’t touch the children of the city of Chicago. Don’t get near them,”
Rahm Emanuel–President Obama’s former chief of staff–told anchor Scott Pelley.
“And it is about values. As I said then [when a 7-year-old girl was shot and killed last month](2012), who raised you? How were you raised? And I don’t buy this case where people say they don’t have values. They do have values. They have the wrong values. Don’t come near the kids — don’t touch them.”
Rahm Emanuel
Soon to be former Mayor of Chicago
Phony 5.0 - Those who say “No challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” should not fly His and Hers 747s to California on the same day.
Phony 6.0 - Go my King with pen and phone but put your wife, your Mother in Law and their servants on a 747 Day Trip no more.
“Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds, like a monkey in a tropical forest” — Kim Jong Un
“The comparison quickly drew accusations of racism.”
I’m gonna have to side with Michelle Obama’s camp and the accusations of racism on this one.
TV star sacked for saying Michelle Obama looked like Planet of the Apes character
By Reuters
5:32AM GMT 13 Mar 2015
A Spanish-language American television network announced on Thursday it had fired a presenter for comments in which he likened Michelle Obama, the US First Lady, to a character in the film Planet of the Apes.
“Look, you know that Michelle Obama looks like she’s part of the cast of the film Planet of the Apes,” said Mr Figueroa in Spanish.
The comparison quickly drew accusations of racism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…-Michelle-Obama-looked-like-Planet-of-the-Apes-character.html -
Comment by phony scandals
2015-03-17 13:03:59
TV star sacked for saying Michelle Obama looked like Planet of the Apes character
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/michelle-obama/11469066/TV-star-sacked-for-saying-Michelle-Obama-looked-like-Planet-of-the-Apes-character.html
Update from Chicago….
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/15/amnesty-left-wing-activists-lining-up-behind-chuy-garcia-against-godfather-emanuel/
Live by the sword die by the sword. Encourage illegal immigration and you will find yourself reaping the whirlwind. Blacks in particular will find that these illegal Hispanic immigrants once they are legalized will vote to provide them with less handouts than guilt filled white liberals. They will want the majority of the handouts to go to their ethnic groups. Non-Hispanic whites are probably the only group in America where large numbers of their group vote against their own interests.
Non-Hispanic whites are probably the only group in America where large numbers of their group vote against their own interests.
You must be referring to working class people who vote Republican.
Rapper Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americans
“I hate everything about this country,” she said. “Like, I hate fat, white Americans.”
by Kit Daniels | Infowars.com | March 17, 2015
Rapper Azealia Banks hates “white Americans” and everything about the U.S.
In a recent interview with Playboy, the 23-year-old Harlem rapper said she wanted to leave the U.S. because America is blatantly racist.
“I hate everything about this country,” she said. “Like, I hate fat, white Americans.”
“All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms.”
“Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America,” she added.
But isn’t it blatantly racist to say you hate white people?
Banks also claimed that racism motivates her critics and that she’s owed “reparations.”
“It’s always about race,” she said. “[New Zealand singer] Lorde can run her mouth and talk shit about all these other b*tches, but y’all aren’t saying she’s angry.”
“If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner.”
“Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on,” Banks continued. “As long as I have my money, I’m getting the f*ck out of here and I’m gonna leave y’all to your own devices.”
Banks previously joked about “killing crackers” in their sleep after a jury decided not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson for shooting resident Mike Brown.
Her views are testament to how “social justice warriors” and the Obama administration are increasingly pushing racial conflict.
Earlier this month we reported on a school textbook that claimed only white people could be racist.
“There is no such thing as reverse racism or reverse sexism (or the reverse of any form of oppression,)” the textbook claimed. “While women can be just as prejudiced as men, women cannot be ‘just as sexist as men’ because they do not hold political, economic and institutional power.”
And it was only a few months ago that First Lady Michelle Obama claimed that a shopper at Target was being racist for mistaking her for a Target employee.
“She said, ‘Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?’ I kid you not,” Obama said. “And the only thing she said — I reached up, because she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down – she said, ‘Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.’”
“That was my interaction. I felt so good.”
The Obama administration is pushing racial conflict to further divide the country, according to Ben Stein, the famous actor and political commentator.
“This president is the most racist president there has ever been in America,” Stein said. “He is purposely trying to use race to divide Americans.”
“They’re handing out pamphlets about this – and it’s been described a lot in the Wall Street Journal – [that say] ‘look, the Republican candidates are targeting President Obama because he’s black and you’re black, so you gotta go out and support him,” he added. “That’s just nonsense.”
Remember this one?
President Obama Announces the 2012 Launch of African Americans for Obama - YouTube
So, somewhere in America there’s a rapper who’s racist. And, like most racists, she spouts a lot of nonsense. This is not particularly interesting.
Also, if Ben Stein was ever a calm, sensible Republican, those days ended a while ago. He’s not a furious clown in the Limbaugh mode. This is also uninteresting.
They don’t pay you for weekends do they.
It’s more LolaLinguistics.
I meant to write, “…he’s now a furious clown…”
What are your losses on the house?
What house are talking about?
You know exactly what I’m talking about.
You don’t even know what you’re talking about.
Spit it out DebtDonkey.
“I meant to write, “…he’s now a furious clown…”
Here are some furious clowns fueled by Obama, Holder, Real Journalists and the other race-baiters.
“Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang!”
Black Panthers Call For Killing of Police During SXSW Armed March …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feY0diCOp-Y - 536k - Cached - Similar pages
22 hours ago … Black Panthers march downtown Austin, TX during SXSW chanting slogans supporting killing cops.
Are you sure? How have Obama and Holder fueled those people?
“Are you sure?”
Yes.
“How have Obama and Holder fueled those people?”
For one, by not coming out and saying the Michael Brown hands up don’t shoot was a lie. It didn’t happen. Secondly, by allowing if not promoting it as fact from the day it happened.
Instead our president says…
“What had been happening in Ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protest. But there was no excuse for criminal acts,” Obama told Kimmel, before going on to say that the protesters had some “very legitimate grievances”.
Very legitimate grievances over tickets not shooting a defenseless kid with his hands up.
Listen to those protestors, they are protesting a murder in cold blood not tickets. A murder that didn’t happen and the president and the rest of the race-baiters should be standing up and saying that loud and clear but they most definitely are not.
Holder himself released a report stating that the guy wasn’t murdered in cold blood. That’s an interesting idea that the president himself has an obligation to debunk any idea that’s out in the country that’s incorrect.
Before the cops got shot the protestor’s signs and chants were…
Black lives matter
Hands up don’t shoot
“What had been happening in Ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protest. But there was no excuse for criminal acts,” Obama told Kimmel, before going on to say that the protesters had some “very legitimate grievances”.
I will put this…
“That’s an interesting idea that the president himself has an obligation to debunk any idea that’s out in the country that’s incorrect.”
in the “my @ss” column.
San Diego, CA Rental Rates Sink 6% YoY; Sale Prices Dive
http://www.zillow.com/san-diego-ca-92101/home-values/
Improper Medicare-Medicaid Payments Up 20%; $77.4B in FY14
Lawless government overrun with incompetence
by Terence P. Jeffrey | CNS News | March 17, 2015
Medicare and Medicaid made a combined $77.4 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2014, a 20.4 percent increase from fiscal 2013, according to data published by the Government Accountability Office and the federal paymentaccuracy.gov website.
In fiscal 2013, Medicare and Medicaid made 64.3 billion in improper payments, according to the paymentaccuracy.gov website.
The $77.4 billion in improper payments that Medicare and Medicaid made in fiscal 2014 made up about 62.07 percent of the $124.7 billion total in improper payments for the year reported by the GAO.
The 64.3 billion in improper payments the Medicare and Medicaid made in fiscal 2013 made up about 60.8 percent of the $105.8 billion improper payments for that year.
In a statement presented to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee yesterday, the GAO listed the 12 government programs that made the largest amount in improper payments in fiscal 2014. Three of the top four were Medicare or Medicaid programs.
The F35 fighter jet program was $163 Billion over budget last year.
that’s it??
someone page old man mccain or his closeted side kick from S Carolina. we’re not spending enough to FIGHT TERRORISM.
“The F35 fighter jet program was $163 Billion over budget last year.”
August 28, 2008
Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver
“I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy.”
Inaugural Address
By President Barack Hussein Obama
Macon Phillips
January 21, 2009
“And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
Just in from the state of ILLANNOY……Aaron Shock resigns…..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-aaron-schock-resigns-20150317-story.html
He was always a very dodgey scumbag. Surprised he lasted 6 years.
LOL @ people who don’t think both of the parties are badly broken, along with the media.
he’s going to be outed at some point. it’s a shame he won’t be in office when it happens.
lol @ this clown.
Wait - wait - what???
A politician does something unethical in office and resigns?
Huh?
Oh wait - he is not a democrat.
Update: Crude Prices Plunge Through $43 Floor; Sinks Lower
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-%20electronic
Rep Aaron Schock (GOP) resigning over tax fraud.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/aaron-schock-resigns-116153.html
2Brony, what say ye?
Liberace!
China solving two problems at once, the shortage of public housing and the glut of private housing:
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-trying-to-reverse-a-real-estate-crash-by-turning-its-unused-properties-into-social-housing-2015-3
I predicted they would do this.
You did. I remember.
Section 8 housing comes to China. I thought they were booming so much that they didn’t need such things.
Let’s see…Russia is studying how they will adapt to climate change, China is creating socialized housing for their poor folk, and investing very heavily in solar energy. Looks like your memes are crumbling under your feet.
Starbucks, USA TODAY team to tackle racial issues
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/03/16/starbucks-fast-food-restaurants-race-relations-usa-today/24851991/
“Starbucks, in partnership with USA TODAY, is about to tackle the issue of race in America.”
“This week, baristas at 12,000 Starbucks locations nationally will try to spark customer conversation on the topic of race by writing two words on customer cups: Race Together. Also, a special “Race Together” newspaper supplement, co-authored by Starbucks and USA TODAY, will appear in USA TODAY print editions beginning Friday, March 20. It also will be distributed at Starbucks stores.”
“#RaceTogether”
Bwahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhaha!!!!!
I have to hand to you revcomms, the focus on brainwashing and indoctrination on college campuses and K-12 education has really paid off for you big time!
What a world of complete morons you’ve created…from you average Joe Sixpack all the way up the food chain to the highest levels of government and corporate America.
Bravo!
#BeamMeUpScotty
See Mr. Boots above at 2015-03-17 14:57:16
Backyard burger and wiener roasts targeted by EPA
Has the “potential for global application”
by Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner | March 17, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency has its eyes on pollution from backyard barbecues.
The agency announced that it is funding a University of California project to limit emissions resulting in grease drippings with a special tray to catch them and a “catalytic” filtration system.
The $15,000 project has the “potential for global application,” said the school.
The school said that the technology they will study with the EPA grant is intended to reduce air pollution and cut the health hazards to BBQ “pit masters” from propane-fueled cookers.
I recall a discussion recently about police surveiling cell phones with a device that can be used anywhere sort of like a mobile cell tower….the deal is I have not heard a thing about non-disclosure agreements - this is well…..depressing to say the least as the police state tightens its noose.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/a-police-gadget-tracks-phones-shhh-its-secret.html?_r=0
Float like a butterfly sting like a Bibi. He seems to believe he has enough of the smaller parties to create the new government:
http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-twitter-says-won-great-victory-israels-election-205056583.html
CRATERING housing
Im bullish on stocks and homes after yellen said she will print whatever it takes to keep asset prices afloat.
Oil has retraced to a pre-QE bottom.
Oil Markets
U.S. Oil Prices at Six-Year Low on Storage Concerns
Stored supplies of U.S. crude at highest level in about 80 years
By Nicole Friedman
Updated March 17, 2015 5:27 p.m. ET
U.S. oil prices slid to a fresh six-year low Tuesday on expectations that domestic crude stockpiles have risen to a record high.
Light, sweet oil for April delivery settled down 42 cents, or 1%, at $43.46 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest settlement since March 11, 2009.
Stored supplies of crude oil in the U.S. are at the highest level in about 80 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and production continues to grow. Demand is typically restrained at this time of year as refiners process less crude while performing seasonal maintenance.
The EIA is set to release inventory data for the week ended March 13 on Wednesday, and traders expect it to show another gain in crude stockpiles.
Concerns are mounting that oil inventories could reach maximum storage capacity in some locations, which could push down crude prices by limiting the places that producers could sell their crude.
“We take very seriously the concern that’s being expressed about crude-oil containment issues,” said Alan Levine, chief executive of energy brokerage Powerhouse. “We’re anticipating that prices will test down below $40.”
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phony scandals