December 13, 2015

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Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 03:47:56

Rallying the base, because when you can’t defeat the message, kill the voters:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/13/aclu-leader-resigns-after-post-about-shooting-trump-supporters.html

Forward

Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 11:39:33

I love it when statists who work so hard to fool the public about how “for the people” and nonviolence, undo all that work with some brain fart. Not to say Trump did not have a flurry of brain farts since his campaign started (and he continues surviving because his followers still think his brain farts are aromatic cologne. Eventually their sense of smell will go back to normal and Hitlary will win).

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:27:48

“…a flurry of brain farts…”

The extreme policy proposals he cooks up on the fly offer a ginormous hint as to how a Trump presidency would unfold.

Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-13 19:16:53

I’m not sure that I agree with that. I think that one of his ploys to get a disproportionate amount of media attention is to say outrageous statements.

How his actual administration would turn out would largely depend upon his cabinet picks IMO.

The media on both sides is so frothed up about Trump that it defies description. Saturday Night Live spent almost half the show on him.

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Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 04:04:00

Rallying the base (P.S. Tel Aviv is not part of the United States):

http://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2015/12/12/terror-groups-hard-at-work-manufacturing-rockets-to-strike-tel-aviv/

No smaller government, less regulation, or lower taxes happening here.

When you go to church today and talk to Sky Wizard, you should ask yourself how the gathering of one subdomain of humanoids into this specific Region will allow another larger, and much more recent, subdomain of humanoids, who mostly live in another Region, to all suddenly vanish from mortal humanoid existence, and go home to be closer to Sky Wizard, and why American taxpayers are expected to pay $600,000,000,000+ a year for a foreign policy based on this batshit crazy belief system?

Cruz/Cotton 2016, giving voters the Rapture they need, a Sheldon Adelson sponsored production, endorsed by William Kristol.

Neocons gonna neocon.

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 04:18:16

Rallying the base, now with 33% more Rapture in every bottle:

http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/12/hanukkah-its-not-just-for-jews-anymore/

Christian Zionists (the “base” of World Net Daily readers) have structured a narrative that Jewish people are like mascots or pets, because their religion is older they have a more direct connection to Sky Wizard.

They’re also racist against Palestinians, and pretty much anything that talks in Arabic and looks brown, which is rather strange considering that Jesus was a black man descended from the continent of Africa.

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 04:30:45

Not all Drudge Report links are created equal.

I went to the Washington Times website (published by the Unification Church, yes the Moonies) to get my base rallied. They have a permanent news subsection titled “Threat Assessment” which if that can’t rally your base, nothing will.

So I clicked on a link to an article about how Trump’s divisive rhetoric only benefits Hillary (narrative to bring the lost sheep back into the neocon fold) and the link opens a URL called the Hillary Files, but no article.

Can’t these Moonies learn how to use html? Is their version of Microsoft Frontpage that they design and publish their website with no longer supported?

I just wanted a narrative, not all this frustration :(

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 08:04:43

Not sure the Establishment GOP’s standard “vote for our empty suit corporate statist because he’s the lesser of two evils” is going to fly this election, especially if Trump goes independent.

 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 04:41:36

The problem with the Weekly Standard is that while it is is (in paper format) weekly, it sure as hell isn’t standard.

Unless of course your standards include the IDF running over and killing American citizen Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer and never apologizing to her family about it.

William Kristol (net worth $200,000,000+) provides the following narrative:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/kristol-cruz-rubio-or-christie-can-beat-trump/article/2000165

Neocons gonna neocon.

And psst, hey goyim, do you have any kidz or grandkidz they can borrow to Secure The Realm (title of Richard Perle policy paper) with? You can have em back when they’re done with them, you might get em back in a box draped with a flag or with a few limbs missing, but it’s all good bro 8)

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 04:54:08

Not all Drudge Report links are created equal. Real journalists at the Washington Post here bewail readers not reading real journalists. Other HBB posters have recently noted that 90% of all media content is controlled by 6 corporations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/thanks-to-trump-fringe-news-enters-the-mainstream/2015/12/11/292e518c-a01b-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html

And a repost of neocon, gun grabber, and Fat Old Hag defining real journalism:

http://www.infowars.com/feinstein-youre-not-a-real-journalist-unless-you-draw-a-salary/

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 05:06:51

Another Drudge link reports on possible end to Rand Paul’s campaign:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/12/12/paul-hints-possible-end-campaign/7×5NZkzHnmRfMxwNL0AVbL/story.html

Another article written by New York Times real journalists 16 months ago asked if the libertarian moment has arrived:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/has-the-libertarian-moment-finally-arrived.html?referer=

Breitbart (not real journalists) also had an article about the rise of the “cultural libertarians.” If you reject cultural TradCon shaming and the smug bettering of the SJWs, there could be something in that for you.

Not that voting will ever actually solve something…

Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 10:48:51

More people like us dropping out of the rigged election system. In every election, big government wins.

 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 05:46:41

Daniel Harper of the Weekly Standard appearing now 7:45 ET on C-Span’s Washington Journal to discuss the Republican establishment’s concern over Trump, please call in and talk to this neocon. Segment link here to follow later today.

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 06:05:03

Progressive social justice warrior website Salon leads with article predicting civil war:

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/13/extremism_ends_in_civil_war_donald_trump_ted_cruz_and_a_right_wing_insurgency_the_gop_can_no_longer_control/

I love the smell of Go Time in the morning :)

Got 7.62×39?

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 07:23:04

I’d really hate to see it go that far. It’s obvious there’s two nations within the same borders, unfortunately. Why not just have an amicable breakup and let people decide what sort of system they want to live under and move to the land mass where that system is expressed? One nation under multiculturalism may cut the cheese, but it sure doesn’t cut the mustard.

An amicable divorce is always best.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 08:11:25

It won’t work that way. We don’t have “two nations”; we have the productive and the takers. Both parties are forcibly extracting wealth and piling up unpayable debts to reward their donors and dependency classes. The productive may want to get out from under that system, but the parasites are never going to voluntarily quit the host. I don’t see a civil war scenario, but if you look at the unfunded liabilities and ever-growing mountain of debt, coupled with the Fed’s intent to print away all government and corporate debt, we are definitely headed to Weimar 2.0 and lots of bad behavior by the dependency classes when they find the free sh*t isn’t there anymore.

Comment by RoadkillStu
2015-12-13 09:18:10

When the actual facts are known there is a lot less distance between the “two Americas” than the 2 Party Establishment Pimps want. Look at Arizona and how many many Hispanics were in favor of SB 1070 and wanted illegal immigration to be cracked down on. Skin color hustlers of both stripes want it all to be about sticking with your group, but plenty of people look at the facts and reject the PC group think.

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 10:03:09

We have a one-party system: the Republicrat Duopoly. There is not a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans. Both perpetuate crony capitalism. Both are corporate statists. Both promote neo-con adventurism. Both are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wall Street and their oligarch donors. Both are bankrupting the country feeding their ever-growing dependency blocs and patronage networks.

It is time for a real alternative. Voting for any establishment Republicrat sanctions the status quo.

 
Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-13 11:24:41

“Skin color hustlers of both stripes want it all to be about sticking with your group, but plenty of people look at the facts and reject the PC group think.”

All races should come together to defeat Globalism, Sharia and PC.

 
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 14:07:18

We have a one-party system: the Republicrat Duopoly. There is not a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Tell that to the 10’s of millions who now have health care.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 14:32:58

“Tell that to the 10’s of millions who now have health care.”

You mean private health care?

Who pays for it?

 
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 14:37:46

“Tell that to the 10’s of millions who now have health care.” You mean private health care?

Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA. Brought to you by Dems.

Who pays for it?

We all pay for it. (That’s what civilized societies are doing nowadays.)

 
Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-13 19:19:47

Oh, you mean that $500/month health care with a $5K annual deductible?

Yeah, that really covers a lot . . .

An empty victory, that’s for sure.

 
 
 
Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:22:20

Why not have 50 nations as originally intended? Central planning has ruined everything.

Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 14:09:57

Why not have 50 nations as originally intended?

We tried it and it didn’t work. That’s why the Constitutional Convention of 1787 convened to end that.

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Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 07:33:10

Salon leads with article predicting civil war:

“Making America Grate Again.”

Aside from Trump being a bullshit artist and Cruz being a liar, Trump, Cruz and many of their followers are borderline insurgent radicals. Especially Cruz. Cruz wants to tear down existing political constructs and rebuild them into his minority vision.

Compared to them, I am the definition of a conservative.

adjective: conservative
1.holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 10:07:12

In 2008, Obama campaigned as a progressive to get elected, after which he cravenly carried out Wall Street’s agenda, including ensuring his Attorney General didn’t send any banksters to prison for their roles in the 2008 crash. Now Cruz is running as a conservative to fool the same rubes, but once in office will be a dutiful water carrier for his Wall Street masters.

Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 10:17:34

but once in office will be a dutiful water carrier for his Wall Street masters.

And so will Trump. Trump’s BS line about not taking money from anybody or not owing anybody is just pablum for the masses. It’s an act, he’s a trained entertainer. He’s an oligarch in sheep’s clothing. Since you have such a perceptive oligarch radar I’m surprised you don’t see it.

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Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 10:25:01

I’m surprised you don’t see it.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: “How could we, of all people, be taken in by a real estate huckster?”

 
Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 10:34:24

+1 Oddfellow. Isn’t it amazing that so many on this board hate Realtors yet have fallen head over heels for a real estate magnate? Oh, the irony of it all … supporting Trump is support for Realtors everywhere, LOL

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 10:46:37

Trump just may succeed in his covert efforts to turn America into a real estate developers’ and gambler’s Mecca!

 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 12:06:35

Cruz! Uhg, the people of Iowa need brains.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:28:52

“…the people of Iowa need brains Christianity.”

 
Comment by RoadkillStu
2015-12-13 13:31:14

Yes, an oligarch tool infecting massive uncertainty into the race and talking about the issues the oligarchy wants swept under the rug like immigration, NAFTA, China and the WTO.

 
 
 
Comment by scdave
2015-12-13 11:02:56

borderline insurgent radicals. Especially Cruz

+2 Rio….

Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-13 11:22:01

Sorry, Fabian Socialism/Globalism and Sharia Law/Muslim Supremacy are the only insurgent radical ideologies threatening the survival of our Republic.

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Comment by AmazingRuss
2015-12-13 12:08:12

Lions are the threat. Loons spewing big words they don’t understand.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:34:19

“Sharia Law/Muslim Supremacy”

Don’t forget the Christian variety of Sharia Law.

We have in the current political climate the makings of a global war driven by the extreme fringes of the major Iron Age proto-Judaistic faiths. Isn’t it grand to see these religious extremists working 24/7 to undo all the ground that was gained during the European Renaissance?

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 13:47:09

Isn’t it grand to see these religious extremists working 24/7 to undo all the ground that was gained during the European Renaissance?

The great reactionary push back against progressivism and liberalism goes worldwide.

 
Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-13 19:24:00

When the young-earthers plot on the weekends and then carry out mass murder in this country, then I’ll start getting worried.

In the mean time, I’m going to worry about the religious extremists from the middle east that have infected our country; ones which have already a proven track record of murdering a lot of people recently within our borders.

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-13 19:29:07

‘I’m going to worry about…’

You have more of a chance being killed by a bee sting. How much time do you spend worrying about that? I’d guess none.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 19:56:25

‘I’m going to worry about…’

It’s an EddieTard-ism.

 
Comment by AmazingRuss
2015-12-13 20:04:27

Bees don’t hate me for my freedom.

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-13 20:57:00

‘Bees don’t hate me for my freedom’

That accentuates the point. Mindless bees have more of a chance of killing you than determined nut jobs,

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 23:35:43

Many Americans, including numerous posters here, have bought into Trump’s fear mongering, and find themselves cowering over the prospect of a terrorist attack contingency with vanishingly small risk of directly affecting them. You may as well worry about getting struck by lightning.

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 06:14:25

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-12/con21-halt-worlds-demise-dont-rely-those-who-caused-it

“Great news! The “greatest threat to future generations of the world” has apparently been solved. World leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change. However, as we knew all along and just got confirmation, the 31-page pact does not have binding language or a mechanism to force countries to live up to the promises to cut greenhouse gases emissions or provide money for developing and poor nations to cope with the effects of global warming.

Basically, COP21 was a massive taxpayer-funded boondoggle, in which “leaders” enjoyed all the perks of Paris for two weeks, burned through hundreds of millions in public funding, and created millions of tons in greenhouse gases (what do you think to private jets and government 747s use to fly?) that has achieved absolutely nothing.”

“So, on one hand, and the hand that the same Borged media as shown in the tweet above will bombard everyone with over the next week, moments ago world leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change.

On the other hand, the hand which will get zero mention at all, the pact has zero binding language or a mechanism to force countries to live up to the promises to cut greenhouse gases emissions or provide money for developing and poor nations to cope with the effects of global warming.

In other words, world leaders just spent hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds on an epic boondoggle in Paris to write a 31-page pamphlet summarizing everyone’s best intentions about the future and… that’s it.”

LOLZ.

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 06:39:58

Not so fast there white man…

———

US threatens to walk out of Paris pact over financial obligations
Talks go beyond deadline as developed countries block differentiation in revised draft
Nitin Sethi - Paris December 11, 2015
http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/us-threatens-to-walk-out-of-paris-pact-over-financial-obligations-115121100913_1.html

The chase for Paris climate agreement is going into overtime. French foreign minister Laruent Fabius, who is leading the negotiations, pushed back the deadline to Saturday after another round of all-night talks failed to yield any result till the original deadline of Friday 6pm. While making the formal announcement, Fabius expressed hope that the final package would announced on Saturday morning after negotiations on Friday.

On the night between Thursday and Friday, the rich and poor countries were divided by fractious arguments, leaving the organisers with no other option but to extend the deadline. Many negotiators across the divide speculated that the talks may get further extended till Sunday.

The night saw an ugly brawl as US Secretary Of State John Kerry threatened that developed countries would walk out of the agreement if they were asked to commit to differentiation or financial obligations. “You can take the US out of this. Take the developed world out of this. Remember, the Earth has a problem. What will you do with the problem on your own?” he told ministers from other countries during a closed-door negotiation on the second revised draft of the Paris agreement.

“We can’t afford in the hours we are left with to nit-pick every single word and to believe there is an effort here that separates developed countries from developing countries. That’s not where we are in 2015. Don’t think this agreement reflects that kind of differentiation,” he added. Making a veiled threat that the agreement could fail if the US was pushed for financial obligations, Kerry said, “At this late hour, hope we don’t load this with differentiation… I would love to have a legally binding agreement. But the situation in the US is such that legally binding with respect to finance is a killer for the agreement.”

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 06:43:09

Warmists gonna warm.

Loving the weather here in your Region, 86° here yesterday had all the bikinis out on Treasure Island.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 06:46:54

Jax is a crowded, congested sheethole, but has some interesting areas along the river.

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-13 07:05:32

“Loving the weather here in your Region”

Yes, I was just out on the back porch enjoying my Sunday morning coffee and the climate.

PS

Goon

You want a good burger on Tuesday let me know how to get you to the Ring.

Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 07:27:07

I assume this is the place:

http://m.yelp.com/biz/brass-ring-pub-north-palm-beach

I can be there at 11:30 on Tuesday. Probably taking 70 and 710 to get over there from the Gulf. Will be wearing my Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead t-shirt. Wink twice with your left eye and ask me if I know where to check in so I’ll know it’s you.

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Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 07:46:24

wearing my Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead t-shirt. Wink twice with your left eye and ask me if I know where to check in so I’ll know it’s you.

Sounds similar to a wide stance and a tapping toe in the men’s room.

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-13 08:07:55

You got it.

I will be wearing whatever clean shorts and shirt Mrs. scandals has on top of my dresser drawer. I will probably be the only one who is about 6 ft. 4 in 280 lbs. driving a red F-250 that still has damage to the left side and the front bumper removed from the hit and run in Lake Worth when my framer had it parked in front of his house.

If I ever committed a crime they would have me pulled over in about 3 minutes.

I am looking forward to it.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 08:40:57

Their eyes met
Their lips met
And then they were introduced….

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 08:46:47

“Sounds similar to a wide stance and a tapping toe in the men’s room.”

It’s interesting that you would know that.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 08:54:50

It’s a Lola specialty.

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 08:55:18

We’ve all read in the papers what goes on in your executive men’s rooms, Mr. Banker, and on your orgy islands.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 09:53:59

ah hem……. Lola?

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 09:58:49

“We’ve all read in the papers what goes on in your executive men’s rooms …”

Does this reading make you … hard?

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 10:00:56

Don’t get overexcited Mr. Banker.

Perhaps you can join up with phony and the goon.

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-13 10:03:30

“I can be there at 11:30 on Tuesday. Probably taking 70 and 710 to get over there from the Gulf.”

I thought you were going to be in Wellington. Is there another Wellington in Florida?

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 10:21:39

Plans change. I’ll be coming from St. Pete.

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 10:35:40

Long drive for a cheeseburger.

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-13 10:50:14

If Goon has time we can hit a couple of jobs up in Jupiter and drive by the ocean to look for displaced Polar bears doing the backstroke do to Climate Change.

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 18:22:15

Where was everybody? I wore my Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bullocks t-shirt and sat at the bar, since no one else showed up, and they wouldn’t give me a table.

Burger was pretty darn good, limp greasy fries though. Ice cold beer. I’d go back, but I wouldn’t drive across the state for it.

 
 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 12:08:01

TINDER!!!!!!!!

 
 
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 07:45:31

created millions of tons in greenhouse gases

Why would the right act like they care about something they say they don’t care about? Besides, this is like saying “don’t go buy food because it will burn up too many calories“.

does not have binding language or a mechanism to force countries to live up to the promises to cut greenhouse gases

Why would the right complain about something they don’t care about?

LOLZ.

It happened and the oil companies couldn’t stop it.

Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 14:53:51

EU, USA, and China burn it all. Better keep the rest of the world out of cars.

 
 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 06:15:35

Huffington Post provides the following narrative about another George Soros rent-a-mob of professional victims demanding more free sh*t and Victim Olympics trophies and feels before reals, because racism:

Anti-racists drown out islamaphobic rally outside White House

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/566c852ae4b011b83a6b83c9

Dear Southern Poverty Law Center internet monitors, you have lost control of the narrative. Cultural relativism is the greatest lie ever told. And every progressive movement in history ends only in one way, with dissenters being sent to death camps.

Got Zyklon-B?

Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 06:58:00

. And every progressive movement in history ends only in one way, with dissenters being sent to death camps.

Interestingly, every reaction against progressive movements has ended the same way, or worse.

Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 07:09:49

You only comment on my criticism of progressives, not on my criticism of neocons. And I have plenty of criticism for both. They don’t pay you to defend neocons, just progressives. And considering George Soros has several billion dollars he didn’t pay his income taxes, he’s got alot of money to pay you. You only post the narrative you get paid to post.

Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 07:16:23

I’m just pointing out history. Every single movement against progressives has resulted in mass killings and the wholesale destruction of peoples.

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Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-13 07:28:00

Comment by Oddfellow

So let’s see, we’ve got:

-The biggest Mexican drug cartel fighting ISIS

-Iran, Russia, and Syria fighting the Sunnis

-The Sunnis fighting the Shiites

-ISIS fighting Al Qaeda

-Putin fighting Erdogan

Again, I have to ask: Is Obummer the Greatest Chess Master Ever?

Comment by Oddfellow

That’s what Chess Master Obummer is playing against. We don’t care if they kill each other.

We don’t care if they kill each other

We don’t care if they kill each other

We don’t care if they kill each other

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 07:50:47

“We don’t care if they kill each other”

Do we care? Note I’m using the editorial “we”, speaking for what I perceive Joe6pack American’s position to be.

I want to GTFO. But I recognize that that, too, will result in a lot of killing.

 
Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-13 08:09:08

Just an amoral bootlicker.

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-13 08:14:13

‘Note I’m using the editorial “we”

But you were bragging what a great killer your hero Obama is. An how he was using people to kill each other, double plus good! Now don’t back away from the genocide; you know you are proud. 300,000 dead because one man, Assad, must go. As Albright said “We” think it’s worth it.

While we are talking about killing and such, here’s a bit that doesn’t support the official story:

‘Saving their sworn enemy: Heartstopping footage shows Israeli commandos rescuing wounded men from Syrian warzone - but WHY are they risking their lives for Islamic militants?’

‘Elite Israeli troops rescue wounded Syrians from the world’s worst war almost every night’
‘They have saved more than 2,000 people since 2013, at a cost of 50 million shekels (£8.7million)’
‘Many are enemies of Israel and some may even be fighters for groups affiliated to Al Qaeda’
‘Israel says that the operation is purely humanitarian but analysts believe Israel also has strategic reasons’

‘There is no doubt about the danger involved. Many of the casualties rescued by Israel belong to Salafist groups who harbour a deep-seated hatred of the Jewish State. It has also been reported that some may be members of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian group affiliated to Al Qaeda that has kidnapped scores of UN peacekeeping troops in this area, and has massacred Christians deeper in Syria.’

“In giving medical support to these fighters, Israel has done a deal with the devil” Kamal Alam, research analyst, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).’

‘It is unclear how the two enemies arrange the rescue. All that has been disclosed is that word reaches Israeli forces that casualties have been dumped at the border, intelligence establishes that it is not a trap, and the commandos are sent in.’

‘Danger: Israeli commandos are carrying out similar rescues every night - but their government’s motive for authorising the extraordinary missions is unclear.’

Yeah, go about your day, we are fighting ISIS, as is our biggest best friend forever Israel.

 
Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:20:54

but WHY are they risking their lives for Islamic militants?’

Think about it people…ISIS, or for that matter al-quida have never attacked Israel.

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 08:22:04

But you were bragging what a great killer your hero Obama is.

I was employing irony to criticize the twisted logic and limitations of conspiratorial thinking.

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-13 08:22:45

“We don’t care if they kill each other”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xrw0gbnNuU - 152k -

 
Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:39:14

“Every single movement against progressives has resulted in mass killings and the wholesale destruction of peoples.”

In other words, oppose us and we’ll go all Stalin on your azz.

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 06:20:51

And speaking of death camps, here’s a grabber narrative:

http://www.infowars.com/the-watchlist-gun-bans-begin-obama-enlists-governors-to-bypass-congress-by-executive-order/

Elect progressives and end up face down in a ditch with a bullet in the back of your head.

It’s the progressive way.

Forward.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 08:15:31

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 12:03:23

My Russian teacher came to the U.S. from Leningrad. She would share stories with our class about how it felt to try to sleep through the night with the fear of a knock on the door to serve notice that her father was about to be taken off to the Gulag.

 
 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 06:24:38

If the dow is down another 300 points on monday is a rate hike off the table again?

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 07:57:04

I went to google and typed in the words “rate hike children” and got back:

“About 19,700,000 results (0.18 seconds)”

So my guess is … there will be no rate hike.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 08:16:54

You don’t taper a Ponzi. Yellen the Felon will punt yet again with yet another inventive excuse.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 08:27:44

then we will hang on their every word till the next meeting right?

 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 08:32:59

“You don’t taper a Ponzi.”

And there it is.

 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 06:26:08

Housing Bubble V.1 - Strawberry pickers getting $750,000 NIJA mortgages.

The obama Housing Bubble V2.0 - $2 million no money down POPPYLOAN mortgages…

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San Francisco FCU Is Offering 100 Percent Financing Up To $2 Million Residential Purchases
MFI Miami | 12 December 2015

San Francisco Federal Credit Union assumes you have the credit worthiness for 100 percent financing up to $2 million with no money down if you can afford to live in San Francisco. So a 100 percent financing program offering loans up to a $2 million under the credit union’s new POPPYLOAN (Proud Ownership Purchase Program for You) program is a no brainer.

Rebecca Reynolds Lytle, San Francisco FCU Senior VP told Diana Olick from CNBC, We have programs to help low-income people, but for the vast majority of young professionals, there is no hope or no help for this middle-class band in San Francisco

According Diana Olick at CNBC, how someone qualifies for the 100 percent financing program:

To qualify for the loan, which requires no down payment, borrowers must work in San Francisco or nearby San Mateo County. The loan must be used for the purchase of a primary residence and cannot be used for a refinance. PMI is not required. The loan is a 5/5 adjustable-rate product, which means it can only adjust at five-year intervals. This is atypical of most adjustable-rate loans, which usually change annually after the initial lock period. This loan can only increase by 2 percentage points each time, up to 6 percentage points over the life of the loan.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 06:35:59

here we go, loosen credit standards to suck in more debt slaves.

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 08:00:21

Suck in debt slaves and you save the prices.

Save the prices and you save equity.

Save equity and you save wealth.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 08:40:09

I guess if you cannot create any new wealth you have to inflate the wealth you already have to ridiculous prices? Is that the new economic model? Leverage up the future by extending debt to everybody?

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Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 08:50:48

fake wealth?

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Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 09:13:23

“fake wealth?”

It’s as real as Zillow says it is real, as real as your quarterly mutual fund statement says it is real.

Prices: If the prices are real then the wealth is real. But prices are things that are voted on - voted up or voted down - and this means that the wealth that is represented by these prices, that is backed by these prices, is something that is voted up or voted down.

 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 09:21:50

so is it now the role of the central bank to manage stock and home prices?

How can you have any confidence in the prices you are paying?

Just cause they think prices should be high?

 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 09:53:14

“so is it now the role of the central bank to manage stock and home prices?”

Of course. Not manage directly but manage nevertheless.

“How can you have any confidence in the prices you are paying?”

If you have any sense then you can’t, but if you follow the herd then you can - or rather you think you can.

 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 11:27:15

I thought we had free markets? You bet to upside or downside.

How can people make money going short if the FED keeps getting involved? they have been putting a floor under the market for years. Stocks are grossly overvalued. Do they let people hold the bag eventually?

Its one thing betting on a business but then you have to throw the FED in the mix. I dont think this is a real market.

Seems like you are being trained to only bet that prices will just keep going up for speculative reasons.

 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 11:39:22

“Seems like you are being trained to only bet that prices will just keep going up for speculative reasons.”

Wealth creation reasons, the sheeple are being trained to bet that prices will just keep going up for wealth creation reasons.

They have been to believe that price equals value, hence increasing prices increases values.

Magic!

 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 11:42:09

This magic helps replace the loss of jobs that used to produce real wealth here but now produces real wealth someplace else.

 
 
 
 
Comment by rms
2015-12-13 08:06:14

“…$2 million with no money down…”

So the monthly nut is something like $10k-12k per month?

 
Comment by Oxide
2015-12-13 08:36:05

I’d love to see the fine print on this one. Notice that this deal is only available in a red hot market. i would guess that this bank will take the house within days of making payment, so they can flip the house themselves. Which only works in a hot market.

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 12:59:07

Donk,

No down aka subprime is the standard and has been since 2000.

Remember….. 97% downpayment mortgages are the definition of subprime.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:36:34

I think you meant 97% loan-to-value? 97% downpayment mortgages can’t coexist with 3% downpayment mortgages.

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 14:33:03

That’s ir

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 06:27:26

WTF did I just read here? Who cares! Somebody get this thing a trophy:

http://www.infowars.com/transgender-father-abandons-7-children-to-become-6-year-old-girl/

No TradCon shaming here, just pointing out the future your progressive betters want for you. And if you oppose Stephanie attending the same first grade school with your children, you are a racist.

Forward.

Comment by rms
2015-12-13 08:11:39

Son… I’m so proud of you.

 
 
Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 06:29:50

ISIS simply Saudi Army in disguise? YOU BETCHA!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-12/isis-simply-saudi-army-disguise

“What stinks in Saudi Arabia ain’t the camel dung. It’s the monarchy of King Salman and his hot-headed son, Prince Salman. For decades they have financed terrorism under a fake religious disguise, to advance their private plutocratic agenda. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with money and oil. A look at the ISIS map from Iraq to Syria shows that they precisely targeted the oil riches of those two sovereign states. Saudi control of that oil wealth via their ISIS agents, along with her clear plan to take out the US shale oil competition, or so Riyadh reckons, would make the Saudi monarchy a vastly richer state, one, perhaps because of that money, finally respected by white western rich men and their society. That is clearly bovine thinking.

Don’t bet on that Salman.”

Interesting article. This whole clusterfark traces back to the Cold War, and the anti-communist stance of the Kingdom.

Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 07:36:08

Financed by saudis and qataris and arms supplied by us. MIC is laughing at you fools.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 07:50:57

Nobody is disputing where the arms are coming from. I just read about Boeing or some such firm inking a deal to supply the Sauds with some major hardware.

9/11 was their gentle nudge to GWB to get off his azz and get moving.

I saw a promo on TeeVee yesterday for the movie Stop Loss and it brought bad memories back of how Rumsfeld threw exhausted troops back into the Iraq abattoir after they had finished their tour of duty. Who were those troops really serving? The Sauds. And most of all, the Bankers. For this I should thank them for their service?

Eff the Bushes and all their associates.

And thanks to the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, the best days of the US are in the rearview mirror.

 
Comment by inchbyinch
2015-12-13 11:47:18

Does anyone know, if it is true, a female born in Saudi Arabia does not get issued birth certificate?

Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-13 13:07:27

I don’t see why not. How else can it be proven that she’s the King’s subject, as opposed to a “guest worker”? What I could see, is that she can’t get a passport without her husband’s or (in the case she’s single) her father’s permission. Of course, she cannot leave her house unaccompanied by a male relative.

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Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 16:03:38

I hate birth certificates and passports. Who requires them? The state. They are used for surveillance of you.

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Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 08:17:30

The MIC was the big scam of the 20th century and is the big scam now. Terrorism is part of the scam, all incited to grow the MIC and government.

My standard of living excelled because I was part of it. But what Edward Snowden said, and what Ron Paul said startled me into understanding I was fooled.

My siblings and most of Americans suffered in their standard of living while resources were forcibly stolen to be used for empire.

I dropped out. I no longer wanted to be a part of it, knowing I was a tool to take away more individual liberty. I read about more and more veterans who say the same thing. They went in thinking it was to defend America and freedom but then found out. It was to grow the State and MIC.

Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 08:39:54

“I dropped out.”

No big deal; You will simply be replaced.

“I read about more and more veterans who say the same thing. They went in thinking it was to defend America and freedom but then found out.”

No big deal here either: These pukes will also be replaced.

Churn ‘em an burn ‘em.

Two things to remember:

1. Dumb ‘em down.

2. Profit.

 
Comment by Oxide
2015-12-13 08:40:08

A ha. Good to hear.

 
Comment by RoadkillStu
2015-12-13 16:24:54

Bill, I applaud your voluntaryist convictions if that is what you choose. Different strokes, and I can certainly see your points. I worry how voluntaryist gun confiscation is going to be though.

Also realize that there are many kooks out there who think they can not pay their taxes due to crazy tax protester sovereign citizen logic. I don’t think you would ever fall prey to such nonsense because you are too smart. Never go down that road. I’ve seen it ruin a few lives.

Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 19:49:00

I pay my taxes the government expects, so that I won’t be thrown in a cage.

Voluntaryist gun confiscation? I never heard of a voluntaryist confiscating guns.

In New York, Cuomo or some jerk instituted a new gun confiscation law and it was a massive failure.

My guns will be lost in a boating capsize accident before they get to them. Accidents do happen.

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Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 06:31:56

Monday is going to be interesting.

And oil is in the $35 range on world markets…

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Middle-East Opens Weak: Dubai Stocks Slump To 2-Year Lows As Financials Tumble
12/13/2015 - ZeroHedge

Following Friday’s further freefall in crude oil prices, The Middle East is opening down notably. Abu Dhabi, Saudi, and Kuwait are lower; Israel is weak and UAE and Qatar are tumbling, but Dubai is worst for now. Dubai is down for the 6th day in a row (dropping over 3% - the most in a month) extending the opening losses to 2-year lows. The 11% drop in the last 6 days is the largest since the post-China-devaluation global stock collapse. Leading the losses are financial and property firms.

In a replay of August, Middle-East equity markets are tumbling as China allows the Yuan to weaken…

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 06:51:32

I have a feeling the entire upcoming week is going to be one for the history books, both financially and politically. I’m gonna try and get some extra sleep tonite.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 07:45:44

People are more focused on fit bits and ipads.

 
 
 
Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 06:34:16

The “Syrian Refugee” myth exposed. First in HuffPo, German language edition, translated here:

http://newobserveronline.com/none-of-us-had-to-flee-syrian-invader/

“None of us had to flee”.

Comment by oxide
2015-12-13 06:48:22

That fits in with the PBS story I posted the other day, of the Moroccan airport worker who can to Greece because he would work on weekends because Europeans don’t work weekends, and “be cheaper” for European companies.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 07:12:30

Absolutely. The whole thing is one big fraud. In some ways very similar to what’s happening with illegal immigration in the US.

Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-13 09:14:16

Sounds like the Euro version of the Mexodus. And as an added bonus, they get terrorists thrown in with the deal.

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Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 10:56:06

LOL, I’ve noticed in myself a considerable mellowing in my attitude toward migrants from south of the Border as a result of what is going on in Europe. It’s like the old saying about “I complained because I had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet”.

 
 
 
 
Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 07:30:27

BS propoganda in full alert. West doesn’t want to take responsibility of turning all this countries to sh!t.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:07:03

If by “West” you mean Washington and Belgium, they may not want the responsibility, but they have it anyway.

However, economic migration is the sad reality. It’s been going on for some time. The “refugee” thing is good cover for many trying to board what they think is the gravy train.

I’ve seen some videos of the transportation crisis at Calais. Purely economic migration.

If anything, this shows the problem of open borders.

Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:30:58

No it shows the problems of central planning in most of these countries including ours. They are making the center strong at the expense of everyone else. Everyone else will have no choice to pack up. That said the refugees from syria, iraq, afghanis, libya, etc are our creation. Hope they all find homes in US or western europe at our expense. That’s a poetic justice for us.

Karma is a beoytch!

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Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:36:30

I have to disagree with the “we” and the “us”. You can be part of that “we”, I am not.

 
Comment by AmazingRuss
2015-12-13 12:17:01

You finance this with your taxes, same as the rest of us.

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 06:37:34

“We bring up this part of ancient financial history, because while looking at Stone Lion Capital Partners – the first hedge fund that gated investors as reported last night (Third Avenue’s likewise gating high yield fund was technically a mutual fund) – something curious emerged.

Here are the founders of Stone Lion Capital: Alan Mintz and Gregory Hanley. Those names sounded awfully familiar… and then we remembered why:

Alan Jay Mintz, CPA, a co-founder of Stone Lion Capital was Co-Head of the Distressed Debt and High Yield trading group at Bear Stearns
Gregory Augustine Hanley, a co-founder of Stone Lion Capital was Co-Head of the Distressed Debt and High Yield trading group at Bear Stearns

In fact, the co-founder of the now-gated Stone Capital Alan Mintz, is perhaps best known for his infamous locker room showdown with Bear ‘s CEO Alan Schwartz. The WSJ recalls this 2008 incident vividly:”

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/meet-stone-lion-capital-cub-of-the-bear/

Seems like these crooks just move around and start new companies.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 06:48:07

YEP! Here we go again.

 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 08:08:04

“Seems like these crooks just move around and start new companies.”

It’s who they are, and who they are dictates what they do.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:48:06

It doesn’t help that there have been NO penalties, NO convictions and NO jail time for the scammers. Instead, they’ve been rewarded. When not restrained by the law, this is the result. You get what you reward.

Eric Holder in effect said they were too big to jail.

Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 09:05:16

“It doesn’t help that there have been NO penalties, NO convictions and NO jail time for the scammers. Instead, they’ve been rewarded.”

And just why is that?

(Hint: Go read the “Orgy Island” post located somewhere below this post for a possible answer.)

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 10:12:32

“It doesn’t help that there have been NO penalties, NO convictions and NO jail time for the scammers. Instead, they’ve been rewarded.”

And just why is that?

It’s because 95% of ‘Murican voters bend over on demand for the banksters’ bought-and-paid-for political hirelings.

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 10:23:35

“It’s because 95% of ‘Murican voters bend over on demand …”

“Willingly”, you forgot to enter the word “willingly”:

“It’s because 95% of ‘Murican voters WILLINGLY bend over on demand …

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 06:47:51

Good read…below is an excerpt

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The Ugly Truth Donald Trump Has Exposed
The Market Ticker - 2015-12-13 - Karl Denninger

Likewise there are those who claim that Obama and similar are evil in their view of Muslims and terrorism and of course they wish to draw a distinction between left and right sides of the aisle. Wrong. They’re all indifferent.

The political goal is more power for them and their friends, mostly economic power. More ability to extract from you by force and threaten you with jail or worse if you try to resist. More power over your daily life. More power to tell you that you must bake a cake for gays (because your religious convictions don’t matter) but if your religious convictions are Muslim then they do matter and must be protected because that’s where one of the big reservoirs of oil and undeveloped people that can be exploited in the future reside.

They literally don’t care if you get blown up or shot and it doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat or Republican. They don’t care if you live under a freeway overpass because your health “insurance” that you are forced to buy covers so little that you have to spend $6,000 before one dime is covered, and you don’t have $6,000. They don’t care that a Christmas Party was shot up by a couple of Islamic Nutjobs who they could have identified if they did care and in fact they shut down an investigation on “civil rights” grounds that probably would have identified the shooters years before.

Jeb Bush has never apologized for giving Driver Licenses to the majority of the 9/11 hijackers in Florida because he doesn’t care. What he cared about was making sure that illegal immigrants could roof houses during the housing bubble so his buddies could make money. That 3,000 Americans died as a plausibly direct consequence doesn’t matter to him.

Hillary Clinton knows damn well that during the Benghazi attacks there were military resources available to interdict them. But she has famously said “what difference does it make” and, in her view, she’s right. She’s not evil, she’s indifferent — to the lives lost there and to any other collateral damage including the arming of what has turned into Daesh! Her goal is globalism, socialism and statism, all for her own personal aggrandizement. That you are harmed or even killed doesn’t matter to her.

The visceral reaction you’re seeing in the media isn’t about Trump’s policies. It’s fear that’s motivating them.

They fear that you might come to realize that you can’t demonize the “other side” for being evil; rather, they are both equally guilty almost to a single man and woman at being simply indifferent as to how much you get screwed and by whom, up to and including your death and the death of your children, so long as their desire for more power and control, either for them or their friends, is realized.

Comment by RoadkillStu
2015-12-13 13:43:00

I don’t buy the “they’re all oligarchs” argument when it comes to Trump. The oligarchs would never have lit the fuses Trump has lit. They’ve been actively working to prevent just these issues from gaining a voice.

All the Trump haters here can never answer this point.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:49:22

I’m not a Trump hater, but I’ll offer to help you out:

Trump loves attention. If you look at any of the fuses he has lit, you can see this commonality: All of them help him suck up MSM oxygen from all the other candidates of both parties.

Comment by RoadkillStu
2015-12-13 16:16:20

This is in no way a response to the claim that he is an oligarch plant. His throwing bombs and riling up the masses is contra to the oligarchs wanting quiet little sheep and yes men. And it’s not just sideshow, it’s the exact issues the public is mad as hell aren’t being addressed.

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Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 06:57:39

What eventually happens when government gets bigger and bigger with more and more regulations and higher and higher taxes.

And literally why the state has to kill the “Eric Garners” selling “loosies.”

Which is why big government LOVES property taxes. Hard to move or hide a house.

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Millions up in smoke: NY has nation’s highest cigarette tax; why do so few pay it?
Syracuse Post-Standard | 12/13/15 | Teri Weaver

The number of state-taxed cigarette packs sold in New York has plummeted by 54 percent in the past decade.

That’s far outpacing the 19 percent decline in New Yorkers who have quit smoking over the same time.

Instead, more smokers are buying cigarettes in ways that avoid New York’s $4.35 per pack tax, the highest in the nation. They cross state lines, shop from black market vendors and travel to Native American outlets to save $6 per pack or more, experts say.

New York is losing big. In the past five years, the state’s cigarette tax collections have dropped by about $400 million, according to data and estimates from the office of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Consider: A pack of Marlboro Reds bought in the town of Onondaga recently cost $10.58. That includes a state tax of $4.35 per pack, a federal excise tax of $1.01 per pack, and 8 percent sales tax of 78 cents.

Just down Route 11, the Onondaga Nation runs a small tobacco store with a 24-hour drive-through. There, a pack of Senecas costs just $4. That likely includes that $1.01 federal excise tax, according to several experts.

That’s a savings of $6.58 per pack.

Those off-the-tax-grid shopping options add up to as much as $1.3 billion in uncollected state cigarette taxes each year, according to a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

New York isn’t the only state seeing this change in smokers’ shopping habits or in tax collections. About 35 percent of smokers in Oklahoma buy cigarettes in ways that avoid state taxes, compared with about one-third of smokers in New York who do the same, experts said.

One, a federal court in 2011 ruled in the state’s favor and paved the way for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to try to collect the state tax from Native American nations by making their wholesalers pick up the cost. Instead, many nations abandoned the wholesale route and stopped selling name-brand cigarettes. They began stocking their stores with significantly cheaper ones made by Indian-owned manufacturers, experts said, like Seneca-brand cigarettes.

Two, the illegal trade of cigarettes has grown, especially in New York City where smokers are supposed to pay an extra $1.50 per pack on top of the state tax. A recent study by New York University estimated as many as 15 percent of New York City cigarettes sales avoided the state tax.

The amount of money collected from excise taxes on cigarettes has fallen. Cigarette consumption has fallen in the U.S. and the number of packs taxed in New York is down from previous fiscal years.

Since then, those revenues have steadily declined. This year, the state is expecting to collect $1.2 billion on cigarette taxes, according to DiNapoli’s office.

“When you raise a tax on something and end up with less revenue, it’s time for some soul searching,” said Scott Drenkard of the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan group in Washington that studies tax policy.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 07:08:55

just like in business.

u can keep raising prices but you will eventually lose enough customers that you are actually making less profits. People will seek alternatives.

I think the cereal makers did this to themselves a long time ago. Maybe you should be able to finance your groceries?

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 07:14:57

Is it the job of government to “maximize” the amount of taxes it can collect?

Or is it the job of government to collect the minimum of amount of taxes it needs to perform it role in society?

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 07:49:03

good question

I thought the role was to help the private sector hit on all cylinders so they could produce the most tax revenue?

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Comment by Oxide
2015-12-13 08:52:01

“Maybe you should be able to finance your groceries?”

Ever hear of MasterCard?

 
 
Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 11:16:42

Government know it can usually count on property taxes because of the modern American belief that real estate is an investment.

I may pay property taxes through rent but I count on the gullible willing taxpayers to pay me interest income on treasuries and municipal bonds to cover most of my rent. Makes up for property taxes. Of course a bond crash will make gold soar above $2,000 so I am not worried.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:37:50

Do you mean Treasury bond crash?

Junk has already crashed, and I don’t see gold soaring.

Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-13 14:23:23

The link yesterday stated that the non-junk category of bonds will crash too. I guess that means As and even AAs.

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Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 14:34:12

I’m not seeing how Fed tightening would lead to a long-term Treasury crash. Why would this happen?

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-13 15:41:58

I would not call it a crash, as much as just a rush to the exits by the institutional buyers.

My municipal bond fund so far is attracting far more buyers. My NAV goes up while unfortunately my yield has been going down. Maturities are around 5 years on the average. The last couple of years my fund dropped from 4% average yield to where it’s close to 3%. Even though I have been buying shares every month in that fund for many years. If rates stayed the same as just three years ago I would be getting about $150 more per month by now. Kind of weird that I buy $300 per month and the dividend $ amount has hardly budged over two years. The other possibility is the fund is reducing the duration of its maturities on its munis. I’ll have to look at its turnover rate to see if it’s buying new issues.

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 07:02:39

Remember when the American government actually cared about protecting Americans?

And if you speak out - obama’s AG will prosecute you for “anti-islamic” speech.

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Bombshell: DHS Shut Down Investigation into San Bernardino Jihadists
Pamela Geller | 12/13/2015

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deleted intel records relating to notorious jihadists linked to San Bernardino Islamic terrorists Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, because they wanted to protect the “civil liberties” of members of the caliphate-supporting network.

“Homeland Security Shut Down Investigation Into Farook And Malik Linked Islamist Group To Protect ‘Civil Liberties’ Of Potential Terrorists,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, December 11, 2015 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been accused of deleting intelligence records relating to dangerous Islamists linked to terrorists Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, because they wanted to protect the “civil liberties” of members of the caliphate-supporting network.

Phil Haney, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol analyst, says he was ordered to stop investigating Deobandi Islamist groups and his work on them was erased. He even says he was subjected to a disciplinary when he attempted to blow the whistle. If he’d been allowed to continue his investigation, he claims Malik’s visa application would have been flagged for greater scrutiny.

He explained: “The administration was more concerned about the civil rights and liberties of foreign Islamic groups with terrorist ties than the safety and security of Americans”.

 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 07:19:58

Hmmmm…that was quick.

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Trump’s Name Restored At Dubai Golf Complex
reuters.com | Dec 13, 2015

A Dubai real estate firm has restored Donald Trump’s name on a $6 billion golf complex it is building with the U.S. businessman and presidential hopeful, days after taking it down following his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

Trump prompted an uproar when he made his comments in response to deadly shootings in California by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalized.

Gold letters spelling out “Trump International Golf Club,” affixed to a landscaped stone wall at the entrance to the golf complex being built by DAMAC Properties, were removed on Thursday, according to a Reuters photographer.

Two days later they had been restored. DAMAC declined to comment on Sunday on the brief removal.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 07:25:15

Whoa. That IS interesting. Wonder what was behind it?

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 07:32:22

Maybe they realized pissing off the next president of the United States was not a wise business move…

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 07:37:48

I had that thought, but I don’t know. Someone got a reality check, though.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

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Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:09:55

Most likely a contract thing…otherwise massive litigation?

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:22:25

If it was in the US, I’d say litigation might be behind it. However, it’s in SA, where litigation by a foreigner don’t mean diddly. Something else going on here.

The whole Islamic terrorism issue is focusing some VERY unwanted attention on the Washington-Saud-Isis connection.

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Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:34:35

VERY unwanted attention on the Washington-Saud-Isis connection.

You think they care?

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 08:43:43

focusing some VERY unwanted attention on the Washington-Saud-Isis connection.

Sounds like Trump has some Middle East connections of his own.

 
Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 11:23:05

Tens of millions of American adults are not participating in the election process this time around. The vocal partisans get all the media coverage and that makes it seem the American public are concerned about which psychopath will occupy the Oval Office in 2017.

It would be fine to carry on and ignore them were it not for the fact that the world assumes the U.S. government represents the average American. Truth is the American government t represents the minority of Americans, the ones who vote. If 20% are bloodthirsty and like to incite terrorists to do blowback, they make it my problem. I want some big NOTA campaign to put out the message that the average American does NOT endorse war and empire and drones.

 
Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 11:26:44

The system is NOT broken. It was designed to grow the state.

 
Comment by oxide
2015-12-13 12:33:10

Trump is very close to being NOTA.

 
 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 12:09:06

A: What are attorneys?

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 13:20:03

ambulance chasers?

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Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:42:16

Money.

 
 
 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 07:25:05

I wonder how many graduates of Trump University will vote for Trump.

Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 07:33:42

rent free

 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 07:35:27

I wonder how many women sexually harassed, sexually assaulted or raped by Bill Clinton will vote for Hillary…

Comment by Goon
2015-12-13 07:45:34

Alot of the 12 year old girls that Jeffrey Epstein procured for his progressive Orgy Island are probably old enough to vote now too.

Will they vote Hillary?

Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:14:51

Hell ya! Otherwise the country will go back at least 50 years erasing all the gains made.

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Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:17:18

How many who have suffered as a result of NAFTA will vote for Cankles?

To be fair, NAFTA was a Republican fueled scam that Cankles’ husband signed into law, but it’s a large part of why we have the illegal immigration issue.

I like that Trump has been going after Roberts regarding the ACA. This is attention Roberts doesn’t want, I can assure you.

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Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 14:40:40

I like that Trump has been going after Roberts regarding the ACA. This is attention Roberts doesn’t want,

Julia Roberts is a Democrat and she doesn’t care.

(That’s about how much people care about Trump “going after Roberts”.)

 
 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 08:24:46

“Orgy Island”

Hey, you pukes, check this out …

“Epstein pimped out Roberts and other underage girls to his prominent pals — so he could gather information on them to blackmail them later on, Roberts alleged in a new affidavit.

“Epstein required me to describe the sexual events that I had with these men, presumably so that he could potentially blackmail them,” the now 31-year-old wrote. She added: “I also understood that Epstein thought he could get leniency if he was ever caught doing anything illegal, or more so that he could escape trouble altogether.”

Ya just gotta love this Epstein guy; I certainly do. He’s my idol.

http://pagesix.com/2015/01/24/sex-slave-claims-bill-clinton-visited-epsteins-orgy-island/

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 08:44:10

When you see how congress critters trot along after their bankster donors like lapdogs on a leash, it makes you wonder what the banksters have on these crooked bastards.

 
Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 08:45:36

Keep the voters distracted, that’s Mr. Banker’s plan.

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 08:57:03

“… it makes you wonder what the banksters have on these crooked bastards.”

Bahahahahahaha … what you really mean is it makes you wonder who it is that is actually calling the shots.

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 09:00:57

Have any of you pukes ever considered just why it is that these candidates that the PTB pre-selects for election are so flawed?

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:35:43

Bahahahahahaha … what you really mean is it makes you wonder who it is that is actually calling the shots.

Since 2008 it’s been clear who is calling the shots. The only mystery is why 95% of the voters continue to bend over on demand for the same banksters who are robbing them blind.

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 09:45:53

“The only mystery is why 95% of the voters continue to bend over on demand for the same banksters who are robbing them blind.”

Obviously you have not been paying attention:

1. Dumb ‘em down.

2. Profit.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:54:54

1. 95% of our electorate are demonstrably stupid, as evidenced by their votes for Wall Street water carriers Obama, McCain, and Romney.

2. Wall Street profits are more obscene than ever thanks to the Fed and its trillions in “stimulus.”

And the sheeple graze on.

 
Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 12:14:25

The good news is that the majority of eligible voters refuse to vote. Maybe we should praise the no voters for not being part of the problem.

 
 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 08:28:43

Orgy Island is located where? In the Virgin Islands, that’s where.

Can anyone make up anything that can beat this?

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Comment by rms
2015-12-13 08:32:26

Now that’s funny… geographically speaking.

 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 09:58:32

Still a US territory (or one of the 57 obama states)

US statutory rape, human trafficking and prostitution laws do apply.

Unless you are Clinton or democrat senator…

 
 
 
Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 08:15:57

Do rape victims typically blame the wives of their attackers?

Comment by The Order Of The Golden Chainsaw
2015-12-13 08:32:43

Yes if the said wives go on attacking the victims.

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Comment by palmetto
2015-12-13 08:37:53

Like Cankles?

 
 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-13 09:52:37

“Do rape victims typically blame the wives of their attackers?”

Sometimes they blame the lawyers of their attackers.

Clinton tells of defense of child rapist in newly unearthed recordings

BY: Alana Goodman
June 15, 2014 10:07 pm

Taylor drove the group around in his truck, pouring the girl whisky and coke on the way.

The group later drove to a “weedy ravine” near the highway where Taylor raped the 12-year-old.

Around 4 a.m., the girl and her mother went to the hospital, where she was given medical tests and reported that she had been assaulted.

Taylor was arrested on May 13, 1975. The court initially appointed public defender John Barry Baker to serve as his attorney. But Taylor insisted he wanted a female lawyer.

The lawyer he would end up with: Hillary Rodham.

According to court documents, the prosecution’s case was based on testimony from the 12-year-old girl and the two male witnesses as well as on a “pair of men’s undershorts taken from the defendant herein.”

In a July 28, 1975, court affidavit, Clinton wrote that she had been informed the young girl was “emotionally unstable” and had a “tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing.”

Clinton said the child had “in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming they had attacked her body” and that the girl “exhibits an unusual stubbornness and temper when she does not get her way.”

But the interview reveals that an error by the prosecution would render unnecessary these attacks on the credibility of a 12-year-old rape victim.

“You know, what was sad about it,” Clinton told Reed, “was that the prosecutor had evidence, among which was [Taylor’s] underwear, which was bloody.”

Clinton wrote in Living History that she was able to win a plea deal for her client after she obtained forensic testimony that “cast doubt on the evidentiary value of semen and blood samples collected by the sheriff’s office.”

She did that by seizing on a missing link in the chain of evidence. According to Clinton’s interview, the prosecution lost track of its own forensic evidence after the testing was complete.

“The crime lab took the pair of underpants, neatly cut out the part that they were gonna test, tested it, came back with the result of what kind of blood it was what was mixed in with it – then sent the pants back with the hole in it to evidence,” said Clinton (LISTEN HERE). “Of course the crime lab had thrown away the piece they had cut out.”

Clinton said she got permission from the court to take the underwear to a renowned forensics expert in New York City to see if he could confirm that the evidence had been invalidated.

“The story through the grape vine was that if you could get [this investigator] interested in the case then you had the foremost expert in the world willing to testify, so maybe it came out the way you wanted it to come out,” she said.

She said the investigator examined the cut-up underwear and told her there was not enough blood left on it to test.

When Clinton returned to Arkansas, she said she gave the prosecutor a clipping of the New York forensic investigator’s “Who’s Who.”

“I handed it to Gibson, and I said, ‘Well this guy’s ready to come up from New York to prevent this miscarriage of justice,’” said Clinton, breaking into laughter.

“So we were gonna plea bargain,” she continued.

When she went before Judge Cummings to present the plea, he asked her to leave the room while he interrogated her client, she said.

“I said, ‘Judge I can’t leave the room, I’m his lawyer,’” said Clinton, laughing. “He said, ‘I know but I don’t want to talk about this in front of you.’”

“So that was Maupin [Cummings], we had a lot of fun with Maupin,” Clinton added.

Reed asked what happened to the rapist.

“Oh, he plea bargained. Got him off with time served in the county jail, he’d been in the county jail for about two months,” said Clinton.

When asked why Taylor wanted a female lawyer, Clinton responded, “Who knows. Probably saw a TV show. He just wanted one.”

Taylor, who pleaded to unlawful fondling of a chid, was sentenced to one year in prison, with two months reduced for time served. He died in 1992.

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:21:45

Jeb’s comeback plan: peddle fear, while ignoring the role of this brother and his neo-con cabal for creating the messes that spawned ISIS.

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-comeback-plan-interview-2015-12

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 10:01:13

Trump should just keep running ads on how easy it was for the muslim terrorists to get FL drivers licenses under Jeb even though nearly all oh them were in America illegally on false or expired visas…

Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 10:49:32

Jeb is probably below 5% in the polls. It would be a waste of money for Trump to run ads against him.

 
 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 09:25:28

why does it all feel so rigged?

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:52:26

Because it is?

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 10:50:24

A vote for Trump in the primaries is a vote for Hillary in the general election.

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:30:18

The American Dream is over, and the sheeple are finally starting to realize it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/american-dream-over-and-voters-know-it-2015-12

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 09:53:27

More hope and change can fix this.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 10:14:50

Yes we can!

 
 
Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 11:29:46

The American Dream was over in 1990.

Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 12:10:54

It ended with “trickle down economics.”
Then both parents had to work to pay the bills.

 
 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:33:53

Mid-East stocks tumbling…we could be in for an interest week as asset bubbles everywhere are looking shaky. Got popcorn?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-13/middle-east-opens-weak-dubai-stocks-slump-2-year-lows-financials-tumble

 
Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 09:39:09

You know the old joke of 200 soldiers at attention when the sergeant asks for a volunteer and 199 guys step back, leaving the butt of the joke isolated and out front alone? With COP21, 196 countries stepped back and left the GOP isolated and alone as the world’s only opponent to climate change.

Why Are Republicans the Only Climate-Science-Denying Party in the World?

“Of all the major conservative parties in the democratic world, the Republican Party stands alone in its denial of the legitimacy of climate science. Indeed, the Republican Party stands alone in its conviction that no national or international response to climate change is needed.

“Rabid opposition is not the only quality that sets the GOP apart from other major conservative parties. The fervent commitment to supply-side economics is also an almost uniquely American idea. The GOP is the only major democratic party in the world that opposes the principle of universal health insurance. The virulence of anti-government ideology in the United States has no parallel anywhere in the world.”

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:50:07

Rigid adherence to groupthink and political orthodoxy is a hallmark of collectivists in general and the Pineapples in particular, so I can see why WPA gets so distressed, like Rainman denied his eight fish sticks, when anyone fails to fall into lockstep with his dogmas.

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 10:14:05

No need to be so defensive Ray. It’s not to late to reconsider your position and get on the climate train. Science is onboard, 196 nations are on board, a majority of the S&P 500 is onboard.

Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 10:26:39

“the climate train” = “the money train”

Bahahahahahaha … a nation of dummys.

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Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 12:16:07

Bahahahahahaha … a nation of dummys.

yep, just reap the comments after any news story.

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 14:59:06

I don’t have a “position” on climate change, WPA. That’s one of those things I can do nothing about, so I don’t get wrapped up in the debate.

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Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 10:53:05

Rigid adherence to groupthink and political orthodoxy is a hallmark of collectivists in general and the Pineapples in particular, so I can see why WPA gets so distressed

You forgot to accuse WPA of advocating censorship of the GOP.

 
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2015-12-13 14:44:57

Rigid adherence to groupthink and political orthodoxy is a hallmark of collectivists in general

That makes Repubs denying science in the name of politics the collectivists.

You realize that don’t you? Repubs are the ultimate collectivists as a group denying science in the name of politics.

Can it be more clear the collectivist Repub’s denying science in the name of politics?

 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 09:52:20

India and China (the #1 and #2 emiiters of pollution and greenhouse gases) exempted themselves from doing anything until 2030.

Then they will think about it.

Meanwhile, obama will ignore the US Constitution and implement this treaty through EOs and making a phone call to the EPA. Who needs the senate or the will of the people anyways?

And people wonder why Trump is so popular despite daily assualts by the entire MSM.

Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 10:29:50

the will of the people

CBS Poll: Sixty-six percent of Americans think the U.S. should join an international treaty that requires the signatories to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to fight global warming.

So when will the Repubs in Congress reflect the will of the people and admit global warming is real and we need to start reducing CO2 emissions?

Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-13 11:16:51

Carbon dioxide is the gas of life. Man made climate change is a hoax.

People used to joke about the government taxing air…Wake up and smell the Bolsheviks.

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Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 12:40:06

Man made climate change is a hoax

I invoke Hitchen’s Razor: “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence” even if I actually such evidence. Or, as Richard Dawkins put it, “”The onus is on you to say why; the onus is not on the rest of us to say why not.”

 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 11:21:02

will there be wars if a country doesn’t meet their emissions quota?

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Comment by WPA
2015-12-13 12:45:31

will there be wars if a country doesn’t meet their emissions quota?

If the severity of global warming triggers severe impacts and precipitates a global outcry to “do something,” the most likely outcome to punish a gross polluting nation would be sanctions, tariffs or carbon taxes.

 
Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-13 13:55:19

There might be wars over access to clean freshwater. The stuff is already scarce in most of the world. As it is said in the American west: Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 14:08:37

“Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.”

– Mark Twain

 
 
 
 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 09:59:05

Only the GOP knows the truth about the Worldwide Science Conspiracy.

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:41:08
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 14:59:05

The Chinese have funny money to blow before we catch them.

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:42:26

RIP, American middle class. Although it must be said, you voted for your own destruction.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/american-dream-ends-abruptly-middle-class-families-no-longer-the-majority_12122015

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 09:45:05

The lies we tell ourselves are only exceeded by the lies perpetrated by those controlling the levers of our society. We’ve lost respect for ourselves and others, transforming from citizens with obligations to consumers with desires. The love of mammon has left our country a hollowed out, debt ridden shell of what it once was. When I see the data from surveys about the amount of debt being carried by people in this country and match it up with the totals reported by the Federal Reserve, I’m honestly flabbergasted that so many people choose to live a lie. By falling for the false materialistic narrative of having it all today, millions of Americans have enslaved themselves in trillions of debt. The totals are breathtaking to behold:

Total mortgage debt – $13.6 trillion ($9.9 trillion residential)
Total credit card debt – $924 billion
Total auto loan debt – $1.0 trillion
Total student loan debt – $1.3 trillion
Other consumer debt – $300 billion

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/12/11/living-a-lie/

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 10:08:57

Don’t worry.

Democrats will promise bailouts to those who support the correct progressive candidates.

Living within one’s mean is RACIST too.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 14:56:28

Democrats don’t need to promise bailouts to their base. Votes-for-benefits, corruption, graft, and patronage networks go in before the “Democrat” label goes on.

 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 10:11:41

I keep reading that somehow increasing prices on assets is going to create all this wealth.

So under this pretext we can just keep leveraging ourselves with credit and bidding up stock and home prices and we will all be rich.

Do folks really care about the real value of those assets? We have these fantasy prices that can only be sustained if they keep going higher.

What is the limit to the amount of “wealth” we can extract from these assets?

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-13 10:16:44

“The lies we tell ourselves are only exceeded by the lies perpetrated by those controlling the levers of our society. We’ve lost respect for ourselves and others, transforming from citizens with obligations to consumers with desires.”

Yes! And, OMG, this was ever so easy to do!

“The love of mammon has left our country a hollowed out, debt ridden shell of what it once was.”

Yes! Easy and fun!

“When I see the data from surveys about the amount of debt being carried by people in this country and match it up with the totals reported by the Federal Reserve, I’m honestly flabbergasted that so many people choose to live a lie.”

Even orgasmic!

“By falling for the false materialistic narrative of having it all today, millions of Americans have enslaved themselves in trillions of debt.”

Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha … which means they work, I reap.

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-13 10:21:00

Paul Ryan will be generously rewarded by the Oligopoly for his servile toadying to their agenda while a “public servant.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/13/paul-ryan-set-mail-obama-check-bring-muslim-refugees/

 
Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-13 10:39:21

Residents Complain ‘Call to Prayer’ is Too Loud in 1st American City with Muslim Majority City Council

http://pamelageller.com/2015/12/residents-complain-that-muslim-call-to-prayer-is-too-loud-in-1st-american-city-with-muslim-majority-city-council.html/

Separation of church and state eh?

Wonder how the hipsters and gays make out in that town.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 10:54:44

Common soon to an American town near you: Prayer wars.

Political News, Now.
November 20, 2015 6:30 am ET
By Matt Flegenheimer
Ted Cruz Creates a ‘National Prayer Team’
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaking at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Tex., last month.

Pray for Ted Cruz.

That appears to be among the chief tasks to be undertaken by the Cruz campaign’s “national prayer team,” a group announced on Thursday and scheduled to begin its work next month.

Mr. Cruz, who has aggressively courted the support of evangelicals, said the creation of the team would “establish a direct line of communication between our campaign and the thousands of Americans who are lifting us up before the Lord.”

Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 12:01:03

Meanwhile atheism and disinterest in religion is growing in America.

Not fast enough to get the U.S. government out of its insane defense of Israel and insane wars against Israel’s enemies.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:45:19

The problem the atheists have (and have always had) is a lack of organization compared to faith-based political groups.

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Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-13 14:21:38

individualist atheists don’t care about lack of organization though. I think it’s better to walk alone and live the example for others to live.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 14:35:27

“I think it’s better to walk alone and live the example for others to live.”

That’s fine, if you are content to suffer in silence when religion-inspired mobocracy takes over your government.

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-13 15:33:06

I suffered also as a voluntaryist, watching as people go about voting individual liberty away.

 
 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 12:10:01

Where ever muslims gain power infidels will become 3rd class citizens in an apartied society.

This included the useful idiots on the left.

I dare you to Google what is in the 5 times a day call to prayer starting at 6 am every day.

And remember - church bells are a micro aggression.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 13:31:46

“Wonder how the hipsters and gays make out in that town.”

Now it’s time for the Lolas and Liberaces to learn how to pray.

 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 12:44:50

“But here’s the thing. After 84 months of zero interest rates — and folks that’s pure lunacy by all historic standards — the Fed has run out of time and excuses.

If it doesn’t begin to normalize rates at last, and as repeatedly promised, its credibility will be shattered. And what it long has been deathly afraid of will happen. That is, the market will plunge into a hissy fit that will shatter confidence in what is essentially a giant credit-based Ponzi.

And the other major central banks of the world are in the same boat.”

“The epicenter of the global commodity, industrial and CapEx boom was in China. Thanks to the greatest money printing spree by the PBOC in recorded history, outstanding public and private debt there has exploded from $500 billion in 1994 to $30 trillion at present. ”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-13/end-bubble-finance-era

Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 13:47:29

So 84 months is the time limit? How was that calculated?

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 15:10:02

You’re full of apologies and excuses SnowFlake.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 16:42:24

PUKE

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 17:37:53

lol@Poet.

 
 
Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 21:43:46

That was a question, not an apology or an excuse. There must not be an answer.

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-14 06:08:35

Backpedal SnowFlake.

 
 
 
 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-13 13:47:50

“The epicenter of the global commodity, industrial and CapEx boom was in China. Thanks to the greatest money printing spree by the PBOC in recorded history, outstanding public and private debt there has exploded from $500 billion in 1994 to $30 trillion at present. ”

Where is Albuquerque Dan to explain why China’s debt explosion doesn’t matter?

Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 14:08:50

He’s off studying Obummer’s chess moves that made China take on $30 trillion in debt.

That’s chess playing, Dan!

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 15:11:43

I wonder how much money was printed by the PBOC so they could
sell us stuff cheap? They basically printed money to make up for the difference in the currency values. Big @ss printing orgy!

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 13:29:02

“The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-13/godfather-climate-change-calls-obamas-deal-fraud-its-bullshit

“It’s a fraud really, a fake,” he says, rubbing his head. “It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”

Let me say it again….

“It’s a fraud really, a fake,” he says, rubbing his head. “It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”

You hear me now?

“It’s a fraud really, a fake,” he says, rubbing his head. “It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”

You proudly claim to have an open mind, it’s so open your brains fell out. Fill up your empty skull with this.

“It’s a fraud really, a fake,” he says, rubbing his head. “It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 14:50:04

“In short, the age of unconventional monetary policy begun by the 2007-09 financial crisis might not be ending.”

- Jon Hilsenrath

Here come the excuses for a punt on Wednesday.

 
 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-13 14:57:06

This is an excellent article by Dan Sanchez on the topic of the fear of terrorism and what it has done to the West. Packed full of great statements to quote from.

http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/nothing-to-fear-but-the-fearful-themselves

” war is indeed the health of the State, and war-spawned terrorist attacks are like an adrenaline shot for domestic tyranny.”

“I am not terrified of the terrorists; i.e., I am not, myself, terrorized. Rather, I am terrified of the terrorized; terrified of the bovine masses who are so easily manipulated by terrorists, governments, and the terror-amplifying media into allowing our country to slip toward totalitarianism and total war.”

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-13 15:55:34

Go have an ice cream or a beer or a bbq sandwich on the streets of a soon to be “no-go” area during ramadan and embrace the diversity.

It is not terrorism. And if you complain during your beating - you are a racist

Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 16:55:15

I will tell you about diversity 2brone. I had a Muslim girlfriend who lived with me for several years. She would hurt no one. She would go back to the ME for Ramaden every year. If not for her demonstrating how generalizing others is an idiot’s mistake, I would be as prejudiced as you.

 
 
Comment by MightyMike
2015-12-13 21:47:18

bovine masses who are so easily manipulated

Isn’t he special? He’s so much smarter then everyone else.

 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-13 15:00:07

Vote for Trump, he might make his daughter the first lady.

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 15:12:39

Let the power of The Donald enrage you…

Comment by azdude
2015-12-13 15:50:14

trump/cruz 2016?

cruz/ trump 2016?

Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-13 16:39:53

trump/palin 2016

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 17:42:36

Trump, Rent-Free 2016

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 15:50:53

Blankets on glaciers, people are putting blankets on glaciers …

“Blankets cover Swiss glacier in vain effort to halt icemelt”

(snip)

“‘It has been heartbreaking to see the glacier shrink, and today it is really painful to see it covered in blankets, to see this vain battle to save a dying mountain,’ he told AFP.”

“… a dying mountain.”

“A full 1,400 metres (4,600 feet) down the mountain side, near the small village of Gletch, a wooden post signals where the glacier once ended back in 1856.”

“… where the glacier once ended back in 1856.”

Hmmmmm … so what happened in 1856 to cause the glacier to extend that far?

Go here for answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

“Little Ice Age”

(snip)

“The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly cold intervals: one beginning about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850, each separated by intervals of slight warming.”

“… the last in 1850.”

“… each separated by intervals of slight warming.”

And this interval of slight warming is what the glacier has been experiencing since 1856.

http://news.yahoo.com/blankets-cover-swiss-glacier-vain-effort-halt-icemelt-041843459.html

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 16:32:36

So what is “normal”? Is “normal” the era of ice ages (little or otherwise) or is “normal” the warming periods that separate these ice ages?

 
 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 16:47:24

“China’s Steel Industry Slump And Dump Intensifies”

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/chinas-steel-industry-slump-and-dump-intensifies/

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 18:15:52

Here’s a ten-year monthly price chart for iron ore:

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=iron-ore&months=120

 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 18:24:35

A lot of money was borrowed in order to finance the mining of iron ore when ore prices were high, and these high ore prices served as backing for the money loans. But now that ore prices have fallen the backing sort of … sort of vanished, leaving the loans to experience a Wiley E. Coyote situation.

Prepare yourself to witnessing a poof event.

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-13 18:26:58

Just like tens of millions of houses backed by inflated appraisals.

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-13 18:44:16

Yep. Poof goes the make-believe equity, then poof goes the debt that was backed by the poofed-out make-believe equity.

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Comment by Muggy
2015-12-13 18:58:58

Goon, as you make your way around the state I highly recommend Highlands Hammock State Park. Take the catwalk. It’s a one-of-a-kind nature experience.

I’ll post my pics in a sec

 
 
Comment by Bill, Just south of Irvine
2015-12-13 20:23:16

$500 monthly you too, can live in San Francisco.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-13/san-francisco-housing-bubble-goes-subterranean-500month-live-crawlspace

…in a crawl space…LOLZ

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-18 04:36:39

crater

 
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