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I really hope a big crater comes soon. Dr. Janet Yellen, please deliver. I am starting to get tired of spending $2000/month on rent for a small 1BR/1BA.
You may see some softness coming your way. Zillow indicates my house dropped in value by about 7% in the last 6 months. This is the first decline in 5 years (Sacramento foothills).
I doubt the market will “crater” though and it may just be the winter season slowdown.. The spring of 2016 will tell the tale. Keep your fingers crossed!
14 percent annual decline and you doubt the market will crater? Time ta pay the piper.
Don’t get too far ahead of yourself…..it’s Zillow and it’s winter. The market is still quite robust in Nor Cal.
No Jingle_Fraud. It’s CAR and prices are calling YOY.
Sacramento ain’t San Diego.
Sac crashed really, really hard in 06.
San Diego is like living in Mexico, only expensive and worse traffic.
Better than spending $500k on a rapidly depreciating asset and doubling down on those losses($1 million) by financing it.
Remember….. If you have to finance it for 15 or 30 years, it’s not ‘affordable’ nor can you afford it.
Move to a better quality of life city. The gov wont save you.
Drove the A1A from Palm Beach down to Fort Lauderdale yesterday. Construction everywhere, especially in the high end areas. We have scrape and replace in Denver too but can’t imagine what these rich clowns are thinking tearing down a $2 million house to replace it with a $5 million house. Pigmen gonna pig.
A1A Beachfront Avenue. Don’t let history be rewritten. Remember the first rap song ever to hit #1:
Rollin’ in my 5.0
With my ragtop down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby, waving just to say, “Hi!”
Did you stop? No, I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I’m heading to the next block
That block was dead Yo
So I continued to A1A Beachfront Ave.
Ice ice baby …….
The Vanilla Ice Project
You can also buy the book “Get Rich Flipping Houses” by Vanilla Ice
http://www.vanillaicerealestate.com/
Vanilla Ice Project Season 4
Vanilla_Ice_Project_Season_4_Premiere
Vanilla Ice Project Season 4 premiered March 8, 2014 at 10PM on the DIY Network. In it’s 4th season, the Vanilla Ice Project is one of the hottest shows on the DIY Network (owned by Scripps Networks who also owns HGTV). Rob Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice, renovates dilapidated mansions in his hometown of Palm Beach, FL and turns them into pimped out palatial estates fit for a rockstar. In addition to being incredibly entertaining, you also discover just how talented and passionate Vanilla Ice is with fixing up houses. What used to be a hobby has turned into a very profitable side business for the international music superstar.
Here is what some of his fans have to say about the show:
“You’re the only guy on TV with the balls to buy, fix up and flip a multi-million dollar mansion!”
“Best f$*%&# show on cable!” — Prime Minister Rosa
“I really enjoy your house flip show” — Robin Dickson
“Hi Vanilla Ice, Love Love Love all your DIY Network shows!!! You and your crew do absolutely amazing work!!! Ice Ice Baby…Word to your Mother!!” — Kevin Benn
Check out the show that has become the hottest house flipping show on cable television, the Vanilla Ice Project Season 4.
Pimping up cribs? I guess that’s a better fit for him than fixing up kitchens for the Amish.
Your SJW betters have been up all night scripting the following narrative:
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/16/gop_debate_scorecard_the_big_winner_wasnt_anyone_on_the_stage_it_was_democrats/
This is the author, once described as the leader of a “cyber lynch mob”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
Who, to be fair, actually gets paid to write, making her a Dianne Feinstein approved real journalist. Every blue-haired Tumblrina with 1,000+ Instagram followers should be so ambitious (when they’re not too busy pouring my coffee at Starbucks)
Speaking of blue haired Tumblrinas, I was trying to remember, what was Rio’s handle here before? I certainly can’t keep track of all the ones he uses now.
aladinsane?
Lad is Back?
what was Rio’s handle here before? I certainly can’t keep track of all the ones he uses now.
lol You’re obsessed with me “Roadkill”. You are strange.
“Roadkill” is Clubber/ShrimpSandwich/Proxy/Strawberry/Mango/Ronnieleft etc.
You keep changing your handle because you’re cowardly. But the angle is the same as well as the weird obsession with me.
I only go by Rio and that’s it.
Lola’s lying again…. tsk tsk….
Who is Ronnie and all those others? I know you go by Rio now and have for a while, but what did you used to post under? I’m not talking about all the other names you use now, that some refer to as pineapples or Lolas, I’m talking about before you were Rio. You haven’t said you were down there that long.
Who is Ronnie and all those others?
You use them all ProxyClubber but your angle and obsession with me is the uniting factor. You are a coward to use so many names.
I’m not talking about all the other names you use now
I use no other name.
I’m talking about before you were Rio.
It was Rio from the start and only Rio. All liberals to you are “Pineapples”.
Didn’t he used to be Brazil Bubble Boy?
Didn’t he used to be Brazil Bubble Boy?
Never. You’re lying again. You’re the only one who called me that. I’m just Rio and I’ll tell you why. When I have about 5 of the most whacked-out right-wingers on the HBB constantly obsessed with my posts, and resorting to only calling names because of a down-deep fear of my message, well, then I know I’m getting through with my message on a basic level.
And it drives you nuts.
Spit it out Lola. Why hide behind a proxy server?
We just point out your ongoing charade and lies Lola. Thing is…. you’ve only convinced yourself.
‘I’m getting through with my message’
What an odd thing to say.
‘I’m getting through with my message’…What an odd thing to say.
What’s odd about it? Everyone here has a message. Your blog has a message. Every post has a “message.”
before you were Rio. You haven’t said you were down there that long.
Before I was Rio, I was Rio. Here’s my “message” from 2009. I was wrong! Since then, expensive houses almost quadrupled. But they are coming down now as I said they would in 2009. 6 long years ago.
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2009-09-05
…. I think prices will come down (In Brazil) on the high end but not like California or Florida because they never had the big boom because there was no financing available……
Nobody cares about hovels in a third world slum Lola.
“(In Brazil) … they never had the big boom”
Exactly. Brazil didn’t have a bubble was your message. That’s why you were dubbed the Bubble Boy. Brazil was the poster child for the global bubble, and you the poster child for Brazil Bubble mania. That’s what “got through”.
“(In Brazil) … they never had the big boom”…Exactly. Brazil didn’t have a bubble was your message.
You’re feebly grasping at a sinking lifeline. Are you bad at math and English BSky? I said Brazil hadn’t had a boom in 2009. Brazil home prices had only been rising with inflation for about 10 years until 2009. After 2009 came the boom. Prices tripling/quadrupling from 2009-2014 was the boom. Is this difficult?
By 2012, I indicated to you that Brazil was in a bubble. I can post it but you’re going to look like you’re slipping.
Your emotion and “bad memory” can’t trump math and the history of this blog.
And now Brazil is collapsing.
Why all the tap-dancing Lola?
I remember the back pedaling. That doesn’t change the living in the mania, or what you said over and over before that.
“I can always sell.”
“Click”
Quiz of the day for old time blog readers: What was the handle of the outrageous flamer that renamed Rioblahblah “Brazil Bubble Boy”?
Some clown made up a dopey nickname for Rio over five years ago? Who cares?
you the poster child for Brazil Bubble mania.
How can I be Brazil’s bubble “poster child” when I said Brazil home prices would come down in 2009, before the bubble even started? Your message filter is off kilter.
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2009
…. I think prices will come down (In Brazil) on the high end…
I remember the back pedaling.
I got you back peddling good now.
“Brazil Bubble Boy”?
You or maybe “v” in a fit of rage?
That doesn’t change the living in the mania,
How was I “living in the mania” of a 2009-2015 bubble when I said prices would come down in 2009, and that Brazil was in a bubble in 2012? Seems like you were living in the Brazil mania that I was just kickin’ back in and observing.
what you said over and over before that.
“Said over and over before that?” I said I thought Brazil home prices would go down in 2009. FWIR, I said it during my first couple weeks on the HBB.
“I can always sell.”
How can I not always sell? I owe no money on my house. Why couldn’t I sell? You make no sense.
Are you sure Lola?
“Brazil GDP In “Free Fall Mode”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-18/brazil-gdp-free-fall-mode-get-ready-terrible-q3-print-analysts-warn
HBB Documented blast from the past!
Was Rio de Janeiro in a bubble in 2009? Not yet according to the definitions. (I was OK with the math in 2009 too.)
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil
2009— —–
“Was Brazil in a Real Estate Bubble too?
One of this weekend’s posts had an article about Brazil where I currently live. And I am wondering if some simple data can help determine if Brazil took part in the housing bubble.
Today’s Rio de Janeiro newspaper, O Globo has an article stating Rio’s house prices have doubled in the past 10 years.
That’s an increase a little over 7% per year.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/lj6ogh
And the official Brazil inflation rate has averaged about 7.3% the past 10 years if my math is correct.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/kug5hf
According to Case-Shiller, the average rate of housing inflation in the USA had been just above the CPI inflation rate for decades prior to the Bubble. So IF (and that’s a big if) the same criteria can be applied to determine if Brazil was in a bubble the past 10 years, the data might indicate that Brazil (or at least Rio) was NOT in a bubble the past 10 years. But this does not mean that prices can’t decline either.
It is also interesting that the Brazilian market could keep pace with inflation with the majority of purchases being all cash buyers as affordable financing is very new in Brazil. My tentative conclusion is that Brazil did not enter into much of a housing bubble but very well might have if easy financing had been available. Comments?
Given the horrific economic conditions in Brazil, I don’t think it matters Lola. Get what you can get for that hillside hovel today because it’s going to be less tomorrow for decades to come.
“Brazil Faces Unemployment Crisis As Retail Sales Plunge”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-14/brazil-faces-unemployment-crisis-retail-sales-plunge-rousseff-blasts-coup-mongerers
The Rio memoirs are probably fascinating, but the simple truth is that the Bubble which you couldn’t see then in Brazil is collapsing now.
The reason that this is interesting is that Brazil is a barometer of what is headed to places all around the world. The shame is not that Brazil sinks back into the gutter, it is that we ever had a global bubble of such gigantic proportions to begin with. It has caused a lot of damage.
but the simple truth is that the Bubble which you couldn’t see then in Brazil is collapsing now.
Well, In hindsight I saw most everything actually. I’m on record saying prices in Brazil could go down in 2009 before the housing bubble in Brazil started and I acknowledged Brazil was in a Bubble in 2102.
And I did see more than you. Face it. All you saw was a giant credit bubble that is “gonna blow up any minute” and cause TEOTWAWKI. I saw the obvious global credit bubble, but, I was able to see that even in a global credit bubble, there are differences in it’s effects on different parts of the world at different times. I said I didn’t think prices in Brazil would crash for prime houses in 2009 and they didn’t. In fact they almost quadrupled since that call. Then I called bubble in 2012. That’s quite a string of correct calls on top of my house has already paid for it’s construction in free rent. 2008-9 was a long time ago - a lot of “free” rent.
And what’s all with this “collapsing” “end of the world” “we’re doomed” right-wing apocalypse jargon? There’s nothing collapsing here. Brazil’s going through a very bad recession. And long over due. (Dude it happens)
“There’s nothing collapsing here…”
Only in a mania can a return to normalcy be considered TEOTWAWKI.
Mama built us a house. Prices quadrupled. Actual primo will not go down. There is a bubble. There is no bubble. The Peso has collapsed. Times are tough. Why should I care? I’m living rent free. Thanks for the laugh.
“We’re doomed”?
Pull yourself up out of that sewer and cheer up Lola. Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels is positively bullish and good for the economy.
“I only go by Rio and that’s it.”
The other day you said you were oddfellow.
Can’t keep her stories straight. Just like Jingle_Fraud.
That’s the trouble with a mania. People cannot participate just for the fun of it, they have to be all manic.
The other day you said you were oddfellow.
Why are you lying?
I’m living rent free.
Obviously in your head. But you’re not laughing.
You’re not very original Lola.
From Wiki: “Marcotte lives with her partner in Brooklyn, New York and has no children.”
RINGS AND PAPERS, YA DIMWIT. RINGS AND PAPERS.
BTW, yesterday I was given (again) the man side of why they don’t put a ring on it. Alimony, responsible for ex-wifey spending spree, etc. Yes, I understand that. But my advice was to the women. The man wants it both ways. Get all the attention and benefits when he wants, dump her without strings when he feels like it.
Some women seem to be able to tolerate that; I never could. I still don’t know if that’s a sign of self-esteem or a fatal flaw.
If any man says “Yes I love you honey and I think you should give up your job so you can move in with me, but I won’t put a ring on it because you’re going to ruin my finances later,” the woman should refuse.
“Get all the attention and benefits when he wants”
That isn’t healthy, and a gold ring cannot make it so.
Betters at the Huffington Post provide a narrative titled “The Origins of Intolerance in America”
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8812476
Cultural relativists assure that female circumcision (the surgical removal of the clitoris, for all you neckbeards who’ve never seen one) is just peachy, as is having sex with nine year old girls.
Listen to your betters, because they’re better than you.
Are you trolling PB with these intolerant comments directed at a certain group?
New York Times real journalists provide the following narrative:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/opinion/campaign-stops/can-this-really-be-donald-trumps-republican-party.html
Seven years of Obama, and this is what you get
Forward
Only reason we are talking about open borders and politically correct McCarthyism. Thank you Donald Trump. Thank you, Sir.
“Thank you Donald Trump. Thank you, Sir.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chairperson DNC
Has Trump finally discovered his true purpose in this race: To heighten Jeb bush’s appeal to reasonable people?
When people become intolerant of abuse, they become unreasonable. That is Trump’s appeal.
No more Bush/Clinton cowbell is the purpose.
Washington Post real journalists provide a narrative, report that the opening act clown show unanimously call for:
“more aggressive military action abroad”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/candidates-in-undercard-debate-focus-on-one-issue-terrorism/2015/12/15/f49da4de-a350-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_undercard
Neocons gonna neocon. Little Miss Lindsay Graham was wetting her panties at the thought of a Sheldon Adelson sponsored and William Kristol endorsed trillion dollar war.
Which by the way, will happen anyway if Empress Hillary gets coronated.
No smaller government, less regulations, or lower taxes happening here.
Trump supposedly met with Sheldon yesterday to tell him to “stay out of it”.
Link or info? I’d be interested in that.
I did read this somewhere. Why would I just make stuff up? What am I from Brazil?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-adelson-meeting-las-vegas
I wasn’t doubting you… I was curious for more detail. Thanks!
to tell him to “stay out of it”.
How do you know what they’ll say behind closed doors? Trump has apparently been seeking a meeting with Sheldon for quite a while…
It’s a feature of a cult of personality. He has no idea what Trump is doing, but assumes that he’s doing the right thing. That’s because he considers Trump to be savior.
Article for phony, linked from (where else but?) the Drudge Report:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/12/15/biggest-storm-this-season-breaks-daily-snowfall-record-in-denver/
Warmists gonna warm. But when it snows somewhere, when it snows alot somewhere, Drudge links to an article about it, and the base is rallied. Senator Inhofe’s snowball on the Senate floor was all it took to rally my base. After I saw that on the FoxNewsHate I rolled some coal on a Prius and it gave me a cool tingly feeling like when you bite into a Peppermint Patty.
Nice article from Breitbart (Andrew Breitbart was murdered under direct orders from King Obama) about Twitter:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/12/15/how-twitter-slavishly-protects-feminists-while-ignoring-islamic-state/
All the narrative in the world can’t change the simple fact that kidz who grow up without fathers (evil sh*tlord patriarch oppressors) will have more problems and be less successful in life. And that you, yes you, the taxpayer, will end up paying for the consequences of it. No TradCon shame, just a suggestion that if you’re gonna breed you shouldn’t be filling America’s prisons with more products of the wombs of “strong independent women.”
Forward.
Why can’t Americans find jobs???
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Obama Administration Approves 3 Million New Immigrant Workers in One Year
freebeacon.com | 12/15/2015 | Adam Kredo
At least 3 million foreign nationals were granted work permits, work visas, and green cards in 2013, with most being granted to individuals from Mexico, China, and India, according to the most recent data issued by the Congressional Research Service.
While the 2014 numbers have not been disclosed, recent statistics provided to Congress reveal that work permits continued to be issued at record numbers, according to congressional sources and statistics provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
This includes about 1 million green cards with work authorization, 1 million employment-based nonimmigrant visas for foreign workers, and 1.2 million work-permit authorizations for foreign nationals.
All the executive order amnesty folks get work permits so they can work here legally.
Shut down all immigration for 2 years.
the bottleneck is at the immigration hearings……i would eliminate all interpreters so if you can’t read, write and speak English to the clerks and judges then why are you still here?
Let in more and more unvetted muslim terrorists.
And to “protect ourselves” = give up more and more constitutional protections.
I propose we ban the Clintons.
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Hillary Clinton proposes assault rifle ban, limits on high-capacity magazines
The Washington Times | December 15, 2015 | Kelly Riddell
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton proposed an assault rifle ban and limits on high capacity magazines to stop potential terrorist attacks in the United States.
“I have news for [Republicans], that terrorists use guns to kill Americans. I think we should make it harder for them from to do that,” Mrs. Clinton said in a counterterrorism speech Tuesday in Minneapolis. “I have this old fashioned idea that we elect a president to keep us safe. I’m not going to let the gun lobby tell me that’s not right.”
Mrs. Clinton also reiterated her support for denying firearms sales to those on the no-fly list….
Guns, immigration, and border security aren’t issues that will help her, regardless what MSNBC says.
MSM Narrative 101
Trump’s Primary Lead Is Bigger Than Hillary’s but HIllary’s shoo-in but Trump will never make it past labor day 2015.
I thought it was Thanksgiving? Now the claim is Trump supporters are predicting “a lock”.
Yup, the corporate MSM only wants establishment candidates. Therefore Sanders is “unelectable” and “Trump will fade.” It’s so obvious.
President Trump to you.
Anyone remember that story about a year ago in this area in which black youths forced lighter fluid down a white woman’s throat and lit her on fire?
Didn’t think so. It faded pretty quick. Not even a hate crime.
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FBI busts 17 suspected gang members found through Chambers investigation
WAFB - 12/16/2015
PANOLA COUNTY, MS - A major FBI operation is underway in north Mississippi targeting suspected gang members.
A total of 17 have been indicted in Operation Bite Back. Nine were arrested on Tuesday morning. Two of the suspects were taken into federal custody and are expected in federal court in Oxford Tuesday afternoon.
Six of the suspects have been previously indicted on state charges.
FBI Agents targeted suspected members of the Black Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, and Sipp Mob street gangs, after gathering intelligence on their suspected criminal activity from local law enforcement and community members weary of the violence in their neighborhoods.
South Metro chapter.
That’s an odd reaction to this story. Apparently you think that the FBI is overly concerned about these gangs in Mississippi.
The criminal syndicates on Wall Street, meanwhile, defraud with impunity.
But look! Over there! Scary black people!
FANG- Facebook, Apple, Netfix, Google…… Worthless junk
“Apple fails yet again: $123B vanishes”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/12/14/apple-stock-fails-again/77290488/
Big @ss ponzis
People who tried to short them lost their @ss. I guess some folks are still trying.
R u excited about your girlfriend yellen’s speech today?
The A in FANG is Amazon, not Apple.
“Jim Cramer thinks the economy psychology behind the massive runs in FANG — his acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet — should become a case study in how stocks don’t divorce themselves from fundamentals, but they develop scarcity value.
“These high-flying stocks become something akin to modern art or professional sports teams, valuations that, while they can’t be explained by simple numbers, can be absolutely understood from the perspective that there just aren’t enough of them to go around,” the “Mad Money” host said. “
FANG- Facebook, Apple, Netfix, Google
It’s OK if you want to make up your own abbreviation. Jim Cramer and virtually everybody else in the financial world thinks A is for Amazon. I think I’ll use Cramer’s version. Thanks anyway.
Hey, how about FANGS? S is for “slack”, the new kid being pumped in lieu of business email.
A very good article for those that want to understand.
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The Wolf Pack Profile-terrorism in America becoming a family affair.
Frontpagemagazine.com | December 15, 2015 | Dawn Perlmutter
It is difficult to comprehend how Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik who murdered fourteen people and wounded twenty-one in San Bernardino, California could be radicalized to commit mass murder and leave behind a six month old baby. The reason this is so difficult for Americans to grasp is the myth that there are universal values that every culture shares, particularly the love of life, pursuit of happiness, freedom and feelings such as maternal instincts. When people drastically deviate from these so called norms they are viewed as mentally ill or psychopathological. The reason mass murderers are designated as psychopaths is because the FBI’s analysis of violent crimes is based on behavioral science methodologies that primarily look at psychology and personality traits as opposed to a cultural methodology that interprets violence from the offenders point of view.
A cultural analysis of the motivations for the San Bernardino mass murder is based on the premise that the offenders were Islamic true believers. From this cultural perspective they would consider themselves to be good and righteous Muslims who were obligated to kill Satanic infidels (dis-believers). As Islamic true believers the violence would be justified as warriors, martyrs, waging holy war (jihad) against evil. As martyrs they believe they will go immediately to a higher level of paradise where they will be protected from the torments of the grave and significantly can intercede on behalf of the infant they left behind to join them in Paradise and be a family again for eternity not just their temporary time on earth. From this perspective Tashfeen Malik would be considered a good mother, one that sacrificed her life for her child. Farook would be considered a good father and son who gave up his life to intercede for his mother, daughter and other family members in Paradise. These beliefs do not meet any of the criteria for psychopathy, in fact their killings were rational choices based on their religious beliefs. The fact that most Americans find it incomprehensible demonstrates Western behavioral bias and the inability to name the enemy and comprehend the Islamic ideology that motivates the violence.
The lone wolf profile works well with active shooters who hold personal grievances, are reclusive and choose to opt out of society. Lone wolves are often true misfits not true believers. Examples of lone wolf attacks include the Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Virginia Tech school shootings. By definition lone wolves act on their own without any outside command or direction even if it is to advance a political or Islamic extremist goal. However, a new breed of Islamic terrorists are emerging that are better characterized as ‘Wolf Packs’ family groups who have a shared worldview, blood relations, common ancestry, unwavering loyalty, solidarity, conformity, hold an “‘us versus them”‘ philosophy and most significantly identify the Islamic Caliphate as their extended family community. Those that are fighting the global jihad are deemed to be the true Muslim faithful, by virtue of which they are to be protected and secured; those outside are infidel enemies who should be subjugated or massacred.
The Islamic State understands that to incite people to mass murder they have to remind them of their humiliation, disrespect and shame. That is one of their propaganda tactics. The misfit already longing for vengeance instinctively understands that violence will feel good. The Islamic State provides the moral justification that allows the loner to act upon his desires. ISIS makes clear that killing in the name of Islam is not only justified but obligatory. The misfit becomes a virtuous mass murderer whose humiliation is replaced with honor and respect by killing in the name of Allah. Jihadist mass murder functions to restore honor, serve vengeance, attain purity, save face and achieve everlasting life in paradise. And now they are hunting in packs.
They lived with his mother. What was her role? What did the other family and friends know? A whole cocoon of people around them insulating them and their murderous ideology from exposure.
A whole cocoon of people around them insulating them and their murderous ideology from exposure.”
yes
Crazy often runs in families, each generation enabling the next. Like that woman who bought her crazy son an assault rifle in one of our many recent mass shootings (Sandy Hook IIRC? Phony will know, he’s got it all faked out.)
It’s another one of those things where, if we pursue it, it quickly runs into problems with the NRA.
Sandy Hook - the son murdered his mother and stole the locked up guns.
It isn’t crazy. It is islam. They are being good muslims and following the koran and hadith and living their life just as mad mo did.
bananas: “It isn’t crazy. It is islam. They are being good muslims and following the koran”
You’re a hateful brainwashed puppy.
Dumb ‘em down, and profit.
“Majority Of Millennials Have Under $1,000 In Savings”
“This would indicate that most millennials do not have a cushion to fall back on in case of an emergency.”
Bahahahaha … here’s where I get come into the picture … and into their miserable lives - come into their pitiful, miserable lives and NEVER, EVER leave.
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-15/majority-millennials-have-under-1000-savings
The may be the smartest generation when the American banks try a Cyprus or Greek “bail-in” or a Hungarian “take your private pension” to make things more “fair.”
“Majority Of Millennials Have Under $1,000 In Savings”
Righteous bucks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45gbgBhVPEM - 196k -
For those who are dying to get out of debt, some Loan-backing collateral …
“Here’s How Much Body Parts Cost on the Black Market”
http://gizmodo.com/5904129/heres-how-much-body-parts-cost-on-the-black-market?trending_test_four_b&utm_expid=66866090-68.Fycr7CNTRMO9chDASrU7Hg.2&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D1%26ved%3D0ahUKEwiMlaP8weDJAhUFymMKHeZjAM4QFggcMAA%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgizmodo.com%252F5904129%252Fheres-how-much-body-parts-cost-on-the-black-market%26usg%3DAFQjCNE492Z66oCPZiS0YO_7kmWwfKAogw%26bvm%3Dbv.110151844%2Cd.cGc
Some further ideas regarding loan collateral …
“What is virginity worth today?”
“Is a woman’s virginity worth $3.8 million? That’s how much a 22-year-old from San Diego, California, said she has been offered through an auction she announced in September.
“Natalie Dylan, 22, said she has put her virginity up for auction through the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
“The woman, who goes by “Natalie Dylan,” set up a private auction through the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada. The auction has given her lots of ‘business opportunities,’” she said.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/22/virginity.value/
From the article;
Audacia Ray, a 28-year-old former sex worker from New York …views Dylan’s auction as a publicity stunt and doesn’t anticipate she’ll “continue in the industry.”
I dunno, if I banked 3.8 mil in one night, I wouldn’t continue in the industry either.
“Majority Of Millennials Have Under $1,000 In Savings”
Ronald Reagan’s and the Repub’s TrickleDown has failed.
America’s warped brand of Capitalism has failed America.
We need to readjust American capitalism to benefit the majority of Americans as it used to. I have the slogan:
“Make American Capitalism Great Again”
Obama failed to do anything at all. Obama’s record is far worse.
Look no further than this fact;
LaborForce Participation Rate Plummets To 37 Year Low; Jobless Population At Record High
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
“I have the slogan:”
The daughter of Crony capitalism has this slogan.
‘I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,’
Chelsea Clinton
Is this going to be part of the right wing talk radio case against Hillary Clinton? If so, history will repeat and she’ll be our next president.
From the “It was never easy for me, I was born a poor black child” files…
“You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy.”
Hillary Clinton
I Was Born A Poor Black Child - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAvQp-Uk5I - 264k -
Yeah, it’s looking like it’s going to be President Clinton again.
Hillaryous can’t win.
Yeah, it’s looking like it’s going to be President Clinton again.
Well, they are the most qualified and experienced husband and wife team running.
So how much is your monthly check from George Soros?
We have to go back to Reagan so we can ignore Bubba’s SHAFTA and turning the keys over to Wall Street. The narrative has been pushed right here for years.
Dumb ‘em down, and profit.
Mr. Banker, since 95% of our electorate are demonstrably stupid, could you maybe declare “mission accomplished” on the ‘Dumb ‘em down’ part of your agenda?
Nope, not as long as that pesky 5% endures.
My greatest concern is that the current 5% of the population will somehow grow larger and it will possibly begin to dawn on the now-ignorant dumb-downed masses that they really do not need me meddling in the middle of their pitiful and dismal lives after all.
And then … what? A job? I should get a job?
(cold chills, shuddering)
Maybe a lot of those savings are now going into Bitcoin and out of bankers paws.
Was thinking about what happens to the banks as countries tied to the Dollar get into crypto currency. Banks suffer. The American empire suffers. The U.S. Imperialism is threatened by the block chain folks. He last gasp of dying organizations is a lash out. Beware of false flags trying to scare us into desiring dictatorship. It is panic stage for statism. Consider crypto currency for your cash savings.
You don’t a false flag for a dictatorship in America.
All you need is a “I have a phone and a pen” president, a huge supporting FSA and a left wing media that sees nothing wrong…
There are a few groups demanding bitcoin ransoms against mid size or smaller network providers and ISPs now.
Cost I think is usually 20 BTC.
They use large numbers of compromised Windows hosts or UDP amplification attacks and threaten DDoS. They do a small one to show they can then if not paid they crush em.
Prices are falling…… There’s nothing more effective at raising everyones standard of living like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.</b
“Diesel Prices Continue Falling, Lowest in Many Years”
http://www.todaystrucking.com/diesel-prices-continue-falling-lowest-in-many-years
I found it difficult to watch the “debate”, and tuned out after all the war mongering got started. BUT, the most priceless comment of the evening came during the undercard debate, when Pataki, in response to a question by Wolf Blitzer as to what the Don had said about Muslim immigration or some such thing, said “It’s one of the most absurd things this President has said”.
Wait, WHAT? “This President” Note to Pataki: Trump hasn’t been elected President. Yet.
The other thing that amused me was when JEB!, looking like The Beaver, started whining about Trump’s Muslim comments and pleaded “We have to engage with the Arab world”.
Wait, WHAT? That’s how we got here in the first place. Too bad Trump didn’t point out that the Bush family are the experts on “engaging” with the Arab world and look where’s it gotten us.
Also noteworthy was that The Beaver didn’t say “Muslim” world. He was very specific on “Arab” world. Arab world. And there it is. Gee, Beaver!
Jeb is done.
The presumed GOP nominee and “locked in” front runner in toast.
Now why can’t the democrats do the same?
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Tuesday’s GOP debate was Jeb Bush’s last stand, and he failed
Washington Post | December 15, 2015 | James Downie
It wasn’t supposed to go like this. When Jeb Bush announced a exploratory committee for the 2016 Republican primary exactly one year ago Wednesday, the plan was simple: Keep Mitt Romney out of the race, lock up the establishment money early and ride Bush’s experience as Florida governor and a big war chest to victory. And for a little while, the plan almost worked. Bush became the front-runner, and though his lead wasn’t as strong as his campaign might have liked, he seemed to have locked up the big donors and maintained a steady share in the polls. Then Donald Trump showed up, and the campaign quickly got away from Bush. In debate after debate and on the campaign trail, Bush stumbled and fumbled away his support. He came off worse in clashes with Trump and with Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.). He now sits fifth in Iowa, sixth in New Hampshire and at 4 percent nationally.
In short, Tuesday’s debate was Jeb Bush’s last stand. And he was unable to turn his fortunes around.
‘Donald Trump opposed the Iraq war, thinks we should be happy Putin is taking on ISIS in Syria, and more recently called Charles Krauthammer a “warmonger.” This last alone would be enough to provoke his excommunication from the ranks of acceptable GOP nominees, but to make matters worse The Donald is horning in on the neocons’ hate-all-Muslims shtick while combining it with heretical “isolationist” views. You can hear the teeth-grinding all the way from Washington and the West side of Manhattan.’
‘Ted Cruz is another highly problematic candidate from the neocon point of view. His major sin in their eyes is his co-sponsoring of the USA Freedom Act, which kinda-sorta (but not really) reined in collection of bulk meta-data by US government agencies. Aside from that, however, there’s his deviation from the neocon party line on Syria, “democracy” promotion, and the whole “regime change” policy, which has been nothing but a disaster for both the United States and its targets.’
‘In an election in which protecting the nation’s borders is at the center of the political debate, the Cruz-Paul beat-down of Rubio on this issue has effectively put him out of the running. Rubio can repeat the “radical Islamic terrorism” mantra until he’s blue in the face, but he’ll never get over this huge contradiction.’
‘The argument over regime-change in Syria, Libya and throughout the Middle East was substantial – and resulted in a clear victory for the anti-regime changers, namely Cruz and Paul. Cruz told the audience that we shouldn’t intervene in Syria’s civil war and that “as bad as [Syrian President Bashar al-]Assad was and is, radical jihadis controlling Syria would be a significant turn for the worse.” He skewered not only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on this question, but also “the Washington Republicans,” a trenchant phrase.’
‘The Libyan intervention, says Cruz, was a “disaster,” and replacing authoritarian leaders like Qaddafi and Assad with radical jihadists is inimical to US interests. He challenged Rubio on his support for the Hillary-Obama policy of regime change in Libya – which led to chaos and jihadist dominance of that unfortunate country.’
‘This is not to say Cruz is an anti-interventionist: not by a country mile. He wants to “carpet-bomb” ISIS, and deploy “whatever ground troops are necessary.” However, he also denounces the obsession with “boots on the ground” as “a talismanic demonstration of strength. That is getting the deployment of military force precisely backwards. This is not a game of risk, where politicians move armies around to demonstrate their machismo.”
‘When he said this in his Heritage speech, this was rightly interpreted as a frontal assault on Marco Rubio, the neocon poster boy, and the reference to “machismo” was – again, rightly – seen as a hit on the chickenhawkish tendency of laptop bombardiers with impeccable neoconservative credentials but no military experience or knowledge. This provoked lots of incoming fire from such worthies as Bret Stephens, Stephen Hayes, and Max Boot. The neocons are particularly perturbed that Cruz has had the gumption to attack them by name, and their anger was channeled in this piece by Eliana Johnson and Tim Alberta in National Review:
“[W]hen Ted Cruz, on the campaign trail in Iowa and again in an interview with Bloomberg News, recently pointed the finger at ‘neocons’ in an attempt to defend his own understanding of American interests abroad, the response among some conservative foreign-policy experts – many of whom the term has been used to disparage — was of shock, anger, and dismay. ‘He knows that the term in the usual far-left and far-right parlance means warmonger, if not warmongering Jewish advisers, so it is not something he should’ve done,’ says Elliott Abrams, a former Bush administration National Security Council official and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. ‘It’s an epithet. It’s always used pejoratively. And the main thing I resent about it is, it’s a label, it’s a way of avoiding arguments,’ says Eliot Cohen, a Bush administration State Department official and a professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.”
‘We aren’t allowed to utter the word “neoconservative,” unless of course we’re Irving Kristol, who wrote a whole book about neoconservatism, or unless we’re Eliana Johnson, one of the authors of the article cited above, who last year wrote a piece declaring “the neocons are back”!
‘We aren’t allowed to talk about the neocons because to do so would expose them for what they are: a political cult that glories in war, and has infused American politics with its toxic ideology of perpetual conflict and unmitigated statism. Talk of “neocons” also brings to the surface the neoconservative institutions that have been key to pushing America into one disastrous military adventure after another.’
Hillary/Rubio are the last neocons standing. When are the Democrats going to give her the boot?
‘As Cruz and Paul went after him, you could see the neocons’ poster boy looking visibly thrown off balance, that bland airbrushed façade pierced by an arrow shot directly into his Achilles’ heel. Rubio fought back by arguing that Cruz voted against the defense authorization bill – because it allowed the government to hold Americans without trial – but Cruz pointed out that when it comes to actually defending the nation’s borders, Rubio would have allowed people to pour into this country without any vetting.’
‘Paul made the same point: “I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow. I think those who have wanted regime change have made a mistake. When we toppled Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.”
‘Paul, by the way, not only had a great night, but he also managed to land the only blow on frontrunner Trump: “I’d like to also go back to, though, another question, which is, is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you’re going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, OK? It’s no small feat. If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there’s something called the Geneva Convention we’re going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America. So when you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you’re going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution?”
‘Trump’s answer was incoherent, and grimaces he made while Paul was skewering him didn’t help either.’
‘Rand Paul scored another bull’s eye in his confrontation with Chris Christie, who declared he wouldn’t hesitate to shoot down a Russian plane over Syria (because he’s from New Joisey!) “If you want World War III,” said Paul turning to Christie, “you’ve found your candidate.”
‘That was a knockout punch.’
‘And Rand had a great – even inspiring – opening statement, which had the advantage of being the first on deck:
“The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China?”
“Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them. I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won. Regime change hasn’t won. Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam. I think if we want to defeat terrorism, I think if we truly are sincere about defeating terrorism, we need to quit arming the allies of ISIS. If we want to defeat terrorism, the boots on the ground – the boots on the ground need to be Arab boots on the ground.”
“As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for. Today is the Bill of Rights’ anniversary. I hope we will remember that and cherish that in the fight on terrorism.”
It was Rand Paul’s best debate. He’s pretty brave to challenge all the war mongers like he does.
Jeb looked “Presidential”. Christi’s knock on “eyes glazing over Senate” stuff was good. Carley is a self-entitled-to-attention emotionless shrew. Cruz is a repulsive liar. Rubio looked and acted punked and boyish. Trump had a good debate but can’t handle any criticism. Was John Kasich there? Carson was bizarre.
Way too much war-mongering and fear. Why are Repubs so scared all the time?
The Party of Fear
Hillary/Rubio are the last neocons standing. When are the Democrats going to give her the boot?
Hillary probably has dirt on all of them.
“Hillary probably has dirt on all of them.”
No doubt. And Obama probably has dirt on her. And she on him.
So, if you’re Obama, and aware of Clinton vindictiveness, and how it could be deployed against you should Hillary attain the White House, what do you do?
1) Take her out before the election and assure the threat is neutralized?
2) Take a chance and hope for a Republican win?
Jeb looked “Presidential”
He looked like The Beaver.
Cruz seems like a neocon in libertarian’s clothing. He does want to carpet bomb, after all.
Who’s the Praetorian Guard going to side with? That’s always what settles it.
GOP debate: more war, more gov and more spending, huge offense spending increase….but we promise to cut taxes too? lol!
C’mon Bernie, save us!
‘Trump’s answer was incoherent, and grimaces he made while Paul was skewering him didn’t help either.’
Mr. President Trump would shut down the internet, in violation of the First Amendment, and kill families of terrorists, in violation of the Geneva Convention?
Oh…
“The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China?”
Yes. This is what totalitarian dictators do. Hitler would have done the same thing in Third Reich Germany had there been an internet then.
Stoopid people long for a dictator to lead them and protect them from their own cowardice.
Is there a sufficient critical mass of cowardly foolish voters to elect Trump?
I just finished the book “A Time for Trumpets”
Excellent book. Dispels a lot of myths about the battle.
The biggest one is that the Americans ran away or surrendered - they fought hard for every mile. Even burnt out National Guard units.
Out numbered, massively out gunned, without supplies or direction - they contested everything but especially critical road junctions and bridges. Many fought to the death to hold up the Germans for a few hours.
I am sure transgender (pre and post surgery), gay and female combat troops will perform at the same level when needed.
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December 15th, 1944: Mostly Quiet on the Western Front. The Bulge begins tomorrow.
US Army History | 12-15-2015 | Phillips, McManus, et al
December 15, 1944. All is mostly quiet along the western front in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. It’s cold, and the nights are dark. So dark that GI Joe, sitting and waiting, can’t see his hand in front of his face.
Four divisions of the US army are parked at a 75-mile front along the western frontier of Germany. The American commanders believe that the German Wehrmacht is finished and not capable of offensive operations.
They either haven’t been talking to some of the GI Joes in the front lines, or they aren’t taking GI Joe seriously. He has been hearing the sounds of heavy equipment moving around.
There’s a rumor that some German engineers have been captured while building a bridge, and that they’re being interrogated…
For the artillerymen attached to the 110th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Division, Pennsylvania National Guard, which has been assigned to its spot on the front in Belgium for rest after taking heavy casualties in the Hurgten Forest in the autumn months, something just doesn’t seem right…
Business goes on as usual, though, all are holding out hope that the American commanders, particularly Eisenhower and Bradley, are correct in their assessment that the worst of the European war is past, and it will all be over in the spring. All the Americans will have to do is walk into Germany, or whatever is left of it after a winter of strategic bombing by the 8th Air Force, and after the Russians have finished with it…
Dispels a lot of myths about the battle.The biggest one is that the Americans ran away or surrendered
What “myths” about the Battle of the Bulge needed to be “dispelled”? The most thing acknowledged about the battle is that we were getting our a$$es kicked by a last ditch mass attack by Hitler but we held and won at great cost.
Heck even Gen. McAuliffe’s “NUTS” reply at Bastogne highlighted American forces’ intransigence and bravery.
Dispels a lot of myths about the battle.
IMO, you fight battles against imaginary enemies 2Bananna.
Heck even Gen. McAuliffe’s “NUTS” reply at Bastogne highlighted American forces’ intransigence and bravery.
That is one of the myths.
Gen. McAuliffe, when presented with the German surrender ultimatum, said to his staff, “Nuts, now how am I going to reply?”
And an aide said - “Just like that, Sir.”
That is one of the myths.
It’s not a “myth”. Gen McAuliffe said something like it when presented with German surrender demands, Kinnard recommended using it and McAuliffe’s response was “NUTS”.
(You fight battles against imaginary enemies imo.)
Lola,
Clearly you watch too much TV.
When McAuliffe was presented with the German surrender ultimatum, he said “Aw, nuts” and laughed.
Later, he was reminded that he was required to give the Germans a written reply. He was with his staff, trying to come up with a written reply, and was discussing it with his staff.
A member of his staff said his initial reaction would be hard to beat. Hence, “NUTS”.
Just as commentary:
-”National Guard” divisions for the most part were Guard divisions in name only by the end of 1944. Almost all of the Guardsmen that actually went overseas were mostly casualties/KIA by the end of 1944.
-Everyone has heard of Bastogne, but more important (IMO) was the Battle of the Twin Villages, where the 2nd Infantry Division and various other units (at a high cost) delayed the German advance long enough for other Divisions to fall back and form a defense on the Elsenborn Ridge, thereby keeping the the width (and number of roads) available to the German mechanized forces.
-The success of US engineering units blowing up bridges in front of German spearheads highlights the big problem I have with the movie “Saving Private Ryan”.
None of our guys would have made a suicidal, do-or-die stand to “hold the bridge”. Everybody in the ETO knew how fast our combat engineers could put up bridges, and would have has no hesitation to blow a bridge as soon as the Germans came within sight. At which point, they would have taken up defensive positions to keep infantry or German engineers away from the water, or would have pulled back even farther and just called in artillery or an airstrike or two.
I just started writing a book, “A Time for Strumpets” about the coming Trump presidency.
Mmmm, strumpets….
Mmmmmmm…dictatorial rule with no Internet…
2B -
I would commend to you books on WW2 by Antony Beevor - his tomes on various aspects of the war - from Russian / German and Allied perspectives are insightful. All very good reads - the ones I have checked out from the local library so far.
I am currently working on a book by him about the Fall of Berlin 1945. Very good read especially on the ground historic research about the last days of the the Nazi Reich and their retreat from the Baltics, the Russian Front etc.
rj
Now reading and recommend:
Eisenhower At War 1943-45, David Eisenhower (grandson)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
They have some things in common.
I’ve read Beevor’s books on Stalingrad and the Battle of Berlin, but by far his best book, in my opinion, is the one on the Spanish Civil War. While there are a lot of differences between the United States and 1930s Spain, I’ve occasionally speculated that this country might have that kind of explosively violent bloodletting, because so many citizens are well-armed.
I’m also a big fan of Max Hastings’ work.
Snake - Thanks for the tip on Hastings - will look into him when I finish Beevor.
Merry Christmas!!!
rj
Trump….. A Superb Statesman With A Squad Of Sexy Strumpets
Check it out Ben. I’m back in Brazil.
Post a picture!
Why?
Sorry. You’ll just have to take my word for it.
Per you: post a link.
I really am in Brazil my friend. Trust me.
Mafia is in Albany dreaming of sunshine and speedos.
You’re jealous Liberace.
Everyone is jealous of those Albany winters, not just me.
Right on the beach here in Rio. Check my ip address.
“Why ObamaCare Is Failing”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-obamacare-is-failing-1445858647
Inflating prices always results in failure.
“The Credit Plunge Comes To Wall Street—-Q4 Trading Revenues To be Down 20%”
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-credit-plunge-comes-to-wall-street-q4-trading-revenues-to-be-down-20/
Credit and borrowing always results in destructive outcomes. Always.
trying to fix a debt problem with more debt seems logical daniel son.
Is it any wonder that the daughter of Crony capitalism has financia nervosa?
‘I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,’
Chelsea Clinton
Self entitled worthless little twit
Spawn of crony capitalist criminal scum.
..Self entitled worthless little twit.Spawn of crony capitalist criminal scum.
90% top marginal tax rates as in Eisenhower’s day would solve a lot of the above type problems.
Gross wealth and income inequality are the cause of many serious societal, political, emotional and economic injustices and problems.
And a government 1/3 the size based on GDP…
Would love to see Bernie and Hillary advocate for this. But like the rest of the left, they need to lie about their true positions.
There you have it folks, answer to my question from yesterday, how much should someone pay in taxes on $100k? 90%.
There you have it folks, answer to my question from yesterday, how much should someone pay in taxes on $100k? 90%.
You’re a liar RoadKillClubberProxyShrimp. The 90% tax rate of Eisenhower’s 1959 was for income over $150,000 in 1959 dollars filing single and 300K filing married. That would equate to an income in the millions in 2015 dollars.. Why do you lie? Or are you dumb?
Lola is a bonafide communist. In her distorted communist world, everyone should earn the same, possess the same….. except her of course.
Hypocrite.
“everyone should earn the same”
He doesn’t have a job, but wants his share. It’s an old story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen
There it is. The fact that you think that it’s acceptable to take 90% of marginal income says enough.
You also don’t seem to factor in all the deductions available under Eisenhower, which made the effective tax rate MUCH lower.
Look at Page 12 of this PDF:
http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/piketty-saezJEP07taxprog.pdf
It seems like the effective tax rate for the top 0.01% is similar today to that in 1960.
What about the bottom 20% under Eisenhower? They paid A LOT more in 1960 than they do today. If Eisenhower’s tax policy was so great, why don’t we take all of it?
Piketty and Saez attribute the greater progressivity under 1960 tax law to higher corporate taxes and higher estate taxes. Income taxes on an effective basis are very close.
The fact that you think that it’s acceptable to take 90% of marginal income says enough…You also don’t seem to factor in all the deductions available under Eisenhower, which made the effective tax rate MUCH lower.
That’s so weak. How could you imply that I “think it’s acceptable to take 90%” when you know that I know about all the deductions available under Eisenhower?
Re-read that question if you don’t get it please. Of course I know all about the deductions available then and now.
You guys just desperately try to warp reality to conform to your false narrative imo.
Stop backpedalling and answer his question.
At what rate should $100/yr salary be taxed
You do understand that all those deductions bred all sorts of goofy tax dodges, don’t you? Deductions distort markets (getting to deduct all kinds of interest, etc.).
“90% top marginal tax rates as in Eisenhower’s day would solve a lot of the above type problems.”
If the 90% top marginal rate didn’t equate to much of a difference in effective tax rate, how would it solve all the inequality problems?
“The 90% tax rate of Eisenhower’s 1959 was for income over $150,000 in 1959 dollars filing single and 300K filing married. That would equate to an income in the millions in 2015 dollars.. Why do you lie? Or are you dumb?”
$150k in 1960 is $1.2MM today. Not millions.
So we understand your position. It’s OK to take 90% of people’s marginal earnings once they are earning over 1.2MM as an individual or 2.4MM as a couple per year–even with lots of deductions.
Thanks for clarifying.
So we understand your position.
You don’t even want to understand my position. It’s obvious. My position is so crystal-clear simple, that many want to complicate it with smokescreens and gibberish, but my position remains:
The rich used to pay a heck of a lot higher percentage of their income in taxes than they do now.
https://plot.ly/~jackp/671/average-effective-tax-rates-by-income-percentiles-1960-2004.png
A simple number, just give one. What percentage taxes from $100k?
You’ve been going about this for a while now, Stu, and you haven’t yet stated your percentage.
When Chelsea stands to inherit her parents’ ill-gotten tens of millions of payola for services rendered to the Olipopoly during their “public service,” and her husband is a direct beneficiary of Hillary’s crony-capitalist backroom deals, she doesn’t need to be particularly concerned about money.
+1
Of course you don’t care about money if you’ve always had it.
I’m surprised the right isn’t trying to make Hillary less relatable by throwing out this quote over and over again:
“You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy.”
Not house…HOUSES…plural. And Chelsea went to Stanford. If they were hurting for cash, she could have gotten loans, like the rest of us.
Gold doesn’t think Yellen the Felon will be raising rates.
http://www.kitco.com/market/
Gold is frequently confused.
“
GoldMeathead is frequently confused.”Correct for accuracy purposes.
What, are you previewing your next blog handle for us?
Youre backpedalling Meathead.
Falling prices my friend. Falling prices.
Ventura, CA Housing Prices Collapse 22% YoY
http://www.movoto.com/ventura-ca/market-trends/
Gold is frequently confused.
I just found an old post of mine answering Prime’s question on gold in 2009. It was around $1,000 and the next 2 years went over $1,800.
Comment by RioAmericanInBrasil 2009-10-06 16:24:27
“What percent (gold) allocation makes sense to you?”
That depends if it’s going up or down.
It looks to me that if gold breaks above $1,060 it will have broken above another teacup and handle formation for the 4th or 5th time in 8 years.
Every other time it has done that in this time frame gold has risen further. It also looks like gold is in phase 2 of a bull market and phase 3 is where fortunes are made and lost.
So do you know what this means??!! I don’t, but I’ll be selling about 10% of my gold and silver in the next week or so.
“I just found an old post of mine…”
I just found an old $20 bill in my winter coat!
I just found an old $20 bill in my winter coat!
So you found $20. What I found within the numbers of my 2009 gold prediction post above made me just a little bit more. (In any language.)
“looks like gold is in phase 2 of a bull market and phase 3 is where fortunes are made and lost.”.
From a forecast to a fortune in just a few words eh Lola?
It shouldn’t be a mystery to you why nobody believes a word you say.
Now that you have found your predictions by diligent research, why not tape them to the door of your refrigerator?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/11-shockingly-accurate-predictions-from-nostradamus-a6772736.html
Is he really Aladinsane? I thought Alad joined a monastery in Mexico. I guess Brazil is in the same direction. Following psychosis is not healthy for me. I must disconnect.
…I guess Brazil is in the….. I must disconnect….
You should. The written record doesn’t lie.
You’re getting your (stopped) clock cleaned badly Bsky.
lol@lola
Ahhh… Thanks for the break. A little fresh Yankee air gets the Brazilian sewer rat stench out of one’s nostrils.
The written record…Here’s a challenge Dingleberry. Search on Brazil Bubble Boy and tell us who gave you that tag and why. He was your buddy. Don’t you remember him? If you’re researching your heritage here, you should be organized. Understandable that you can’t remember what was said just a few years back, it was a few crash and burns ago, but set the record straight with search.
gold goes up when Fed actively raises rates. Gold goes down when Fed actively lowers rates.
She raised, so gold was wrong - again.
Another DayoRage
http://goo.gl/uwJ0iw
Brazil cut to junk.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-16/brazil-stocks-currency-tumble-after-fitch-downgrade-junk
And the #1 reason:
–Failure to arrest the pace of increase in the government debt burden.
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Thank you obama for adding more debt to America’s balance sheet than ALL OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS COMBINED and accounting for inflation.
We all know where this road will take us. And those who make that warning are called racists and wanting to starve children.
And yet when it does happen - those in power will say “no one could have saw this coming”
As long as Lola doesn’t text his junk. Hey, maybe he’s AnthonyWeinerInBrasil? There’s the explanation for the IP address.
^
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The dumbing down of ‘Murica continues apace. I’m guessing a Venn Diagram would show a 100% overlap between ‘Muricans who “lack basic literacy” skills and the votes-for-entitlements Democrat urban base who maintain corrupt, incompetent, kleptocrat Democrat administrations in power in all of our major municipalities.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/15/philadelphia-many-lack-literacy.html
And the Philadelphia School system spends $14,000 per pupil per year.
And they say it is not enough.
A: What are pension scams.
People are the worst!!
I doubt it. The poorest states, which also have the highest dropout rates, mostly vote Republican. Massachusetts, which has a long history of excelling in education, is one of the most liberal states in the country.
MH,
CA is the poorest state in the US but they vote liberal.
It is what democrats do.
And to democrats - the entire 2nd Amendment is a “loophole”
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House Democrats Introduce Bill to Ban Manufacture of ‘Assault Weapons’
breitbart.com | 12/15/2015 | AWR Hawkins
On December 16, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) will introduce the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2015″ to ban all manufacturing of “assault weapons.”
Besides banning the manufacturing of AR-15s and related firearms, the ban would put in place “new restrictions on the sale of already existing assault weapons.”
According to The Hill, Cicilline said, “Assault weapons are designed for the sole purpose of killing as many people as quickly as possible. We need to do everything we can to reduce the toll of gun violence by keeping these weapons out of our communities.”
MOLON LABE > fundamental transformation
MOLON LABE has been twisted into shameless defense of embedded terrorists in America being able to buy assault weapons in America. Abdul, on the no fly list, want a gun? Here, have one! The NRA and GOP want you to have one! Abdul, there’s a gun show at the convention center — the NRA and GOP want you to go there to buy AR-15’s without a background check!
MOLON LATTE - Come and take it (my coffee order).
Machine guns are illegal. Owning grenades are illegal. Owning TNT is illegal. All three of these are deadly and are not justified for hunting or personal protection, and no one is clamoring to make them legal.
To be consistent the ownership of assault rifles should also be illegal, it’s only common sense. No one hunts with an assault rifle. Background checks at gun shows are also common sense, but the Kneejerk Rifle Assoc. bribes Congress and unethical Repub congresspeople sell out America’s safety for lobbyist money.
“No one hunts with an assault rifle.”
Of course you are referring to a modern sporting rifle, and once again you couldn’t be more wrong.
The gun nuts go out and hunt with everything just to disprove that point.
“The gun nuts go out and hunt with everything just to disprove that point.”
Your going off the reservation today Mike.
Of course you are referring to a modern sporting rifle, and once again you couldn’t be more wrong.
A typical long barrel bolt action rifle used for deer doesn’t bear any resemblance to an assault rifle.
Deer hunting with AR 15 223 (2012) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YlXxCvMeE - 241k -
AR-15 Wild Boar Hunt - Field To Table - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHx43ZbIELQ - 371k -
Missouri hog hunting with bay dogs and ak47 - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7_bO8_BRpY - 181k -
A long barrel single shot rifle is a more deadly tool in the right hands. Just sayin.
Yeaaaaup. Long, bolt action, Bushnell. Sniper practice.
For Hogs I would take an AK with a five round mag (which is legal) over a bolt action for the follow up shot.
I take it that for Hogs, you have to jump into their confined space. Isn’t a pistol enough for that business of the follow up?
“Isn’t a pistol enough for that business of the follow up?”
Sure, but then you might as well just take a Glock 10mm for the hunt.
There may be people who could transition from rifle to pistol fast enough but I ain’t one of them.
Glock 20 10mm Wild Hog Kill - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSq96T-UrJ0 - 171k -
No one had ever killed a wild hog before we invented the assault rifle. They were considered indestructible.
I agree with all but one comment.
You call out Republicans. Democrats are also in the pocket of the NRA.
The second amendment doesn’t mention manufacturing.
“The second amendment doesn’t mention manufacturing.”
It is good to know that MightyMike has not contributed to this…
LaborForce Participation Rate Plummets To 37 Year Low; Jobless Population At Record High
Gee, that’s really clever. You tie together two pieces of nonsense. But thanks for endorsing my point about the amendment.
Just a comment on your employment here.
No need to get uptighty Mighty.
Sometimes I wonder if the Lib-Dems are covertly working hand-in-glove with the NRA to conjure up serial gun-ban threats to galvanize the boom-bahs into sending millions to the NRA, which is then disbursed as payola to the designated Democrat provocateurs to keep gunheads in a Beaker-like state of angst (and keeping the contributions rolling in). It’s politics, after all. And the one undisputed success of the Obama Presidency is his role as Gun Salesman of the Century.
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/fear-and-politics-send-gun-sales-soaring-1.383633
“Assault weapons are designed for the sole purpose of killing as many people as quickly as possible.”
Well yeah. I have to exterminate at least a dozen terrorists on my way to work each day. Does she want me to be late?
Am wondering about cause and effect here - are short-term rates rising on expectations of a rate rise, or is Yellen the Felon being forced to raise rates by market forces finally asserting themselves on the credit markets?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/short-term-treasury-yields-hit-fresh-512-year-high-as-interest-rate-hike-approaches-2015-12-16
If Trump is elected, will the HBB be forced to shut down?
“Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump followed up on his promise to close parts of the internet in order to fight ISIS radicalization, offering his most specific idea yet in the GOP debate Tuesday night.”
Now we have a censorship candidate… but it also displays a lack of knowledge of technology by the Trump team. There is no ISIS label on data packets.
Nonsense. Post a link.
http://time.com/4150891/republican-debate-donald-trump-internet/
WPA
The quote you have posted above is nowhere to be found in this Time article.
Here is theirs…
“Donald Trump reiterated in the fifth Republican debate on Tuesday night that he would be open to “closing parts of the Internet” to prevent ISIS from attracting recruits, but it wasn’t clear exactly what he meant.”
Here is yours…
“Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump followed up on his promise to close parts of the internet in order to fight ISIS radicalization, offering his most specific idea yet in the GOP debate Tuesday night.”
“closing parts of the Internet”
Basically, Trump has no idea how the internet works, just has he had no idea in last night’s debate what the nuclear triad was.
“Nonsense. Post a link”
Do you really want a link from the Soros-Funded Propaganda Machine Think Progress? Not to mention the WPA editing.
Donald Trump Details Plan To Close ‘Areas’ Of The Internet
by Aviva Shen Dec 15, 2015 10:02 pm
Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump followed up on his promise to close parts of the internet in order to fight ISIS radicalization, offering his most specific idea yet in the GOP debate Tuesday night.
When explicitly asked if he would take similar steps as repressive governments in China and North Korea to censor the internet, Trump said he would seal off the internet from places at war with America, since the internet was “our idea.”
“I don’t want them using our internet to take our young impressionable youth,” Trump explained.
“So, are you open to closing parts of the internet?” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked.
“I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody,” Trump said. “I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet. Yes, sir. I am.”
Trump also said he would recruit “our good people” in Silicon Valley to “penetrate the internet” to “find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS.”
thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/15/3732656/trump-internet-closure/ - 78k -
Thanks! That will be my reply to you every time you mention XX million empty homes that don’t exist.
We’ve already posted the data and discussed it endlessly my friend. You have a beef with the data.
No, I have a beef with bovine excrement.
Yes, you have endlessly discussed whatever random number you pull out of a dark, smelly place on any given day - a number that has ranged from the low millions to the high tens of millions.
Pure fantasy.
And you can’t even gin up a single zillow or movoto link to support it.
Nothing random my friend. 25 million to excess empty and defaulted houses with another 35 million just beginning to empty.
You have a beef with the data.
Sure. Look for it in the morning.
Rand Paul: Donald Trump’s plan to close the Internet is against the Constitution
By Eugene Scott, CNN
Updated 12:48 PM ET, Wed December 16, 2015 | CNN
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump either does not understand or does not have much respect for the Constitution, Rand Paul said Wednesday.
Trump, the Republican front-runner, said he “would certainly be open to closing [the Internet] in areas where we are at war with somebody” at the CNN Republican debate Tuesday. The billionaire businessman was referencing shutting off parts of the Internet that helped incite or facilitate terrorism.
But Paul said following Trump’s strategy was fundamentally against the Constitution.
“If you’re going to close the Internet — that’s like something they do in North Korea, something like they do in China — but it also goes against the Constitution. It goes against the First Amendment,” he said on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News.
“Closing the Internet would require a change to our Constitution where we get rid of the First Amendment. That’s a big step,” he said.
Paul dismissed Trump’s current standing in the 2016 horse race, saying that the polls could change in a matter of weeks.
“The polls are very fluid. Ben Carson, who I like a lot, has dropped 20 points,” the Kentucky Senator said. “Same thing could happen to Trump.”
Paul painted to one of Trump’s positions on terrorists as being potential popularity shifters.
“He’s talking about killing women and children — the families of terrorists,” he said. “I don’t think many Americans want to kill two-year-old children or four-year-old children.”
We’re telling the nerds to do it. That is enough.
“Baltic Dry Crashes To New Record Low As China “Demand Is Collapsing”"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-16/baltic-dry-crashes-new-record-low-china-demand-collapsing
Collapsing demand for everything….. globally. Too many houses, too many cars, too many raw stockpiles, too much oil, warehouses overflowing with Iphones and computers…… collapsing demand.
Oil = CR8R
Markets Commodities Oil Markets
Oil Prices Fall Further as Inventories Rise to Record
Price difference between U.S. oil and global benchmark narrows after Congress agrees to lift export ban
By Nicole Friedman
Updated Dec. 16, 2015 4:04 p.m. ET
NEW YORK—Oil prices fell to new multiyear lows Wednesday as U.S. commercial crude and refined-product inventories rose to a record.
U.S. oil has fallen 15% this month on concerns that the global glut of crude is set to persist into 2016 and possibly beyond. Production remains high around the world, as companies pump at full tilt to maximize revenues despite low prices.
Light, sweet crude for January delivery fell $1.83, or 4.9%, to $35.52 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest settlement since February 2009. Brent, the global benchmark, fell $1.26, or 3.3%, to $37.19 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, the lowest level since December 2008.
Both benchmarks are down more than 30% this year.
Weekly inventory data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed an increase of 4.8 million barrels of crude oil stocks. Analysts polled by The Wall Street Journal expected the agency to report that crude-oil inventories fell 1.4 million barrels last week. The U.S. imported 8.3 million barrels a day of crude, the highest weekly level since September 2013. Imports have risen in recent months because the U.S. production has declined and the U.S. has more storage space available for crude oil than other regions.
“The U.S. market is actually vacuuming up part of the global supply-demand surplus,” said Tim Evans, analyst at Citigroup Inc. Supplies of gasoline and distillates, including heating oil and diesel fuel, also rose. Total crude and refined-product commercial stockpiles climbed by 5 million barrels to 1.31 billion barrels, a record in EIA data going back to 1990.
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Too many?
I’d say the problem is that no money is tricking down to the wretched refuse.
Of course, any mention of this is just commie-talk by us “takers”.
I agree. There is record joblessness and the laborforce participation rate at 38 year lows. Combined with deliberate price fixing and rigging at grossly inflated levels, demand is going to collapse.
“You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy.”
Hillary Clinton
I Was Born A Poor Black Child - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAvQp-Uk5I - 264k -
Please give generously to the Clinton Charity.
It is not a bribe if the word Charity is on the check…
A day without Hillary is like a day without Drone Strikes
Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: We came, we saw, he died - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y - 341k -
She would make such a Realtor!
“There’s No Upside Left”
“With risk piling up and yields crashing, there is only downside, Baby
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-16/theres-no-upside-left
Liquidate, get out of debt as soon as possible and hold onto every dollar you’ve got. You’ll thank us later.
UPDATE: Oil Crashes Through $36 Floor On Its Way To $30
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-%20electronic
Remember….. Nothing accelerates our economy like falling prices of oil and housing to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
As long as muslims vote democrat for generations…
We will EMBRACE diversity.
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Security Dies Where Multiculturalism Thrives
Townhall.com | December 16, 2015 | Ben Shapiro
While Americans fret over Donald Trump’s plans to ban Muslim immigration to the United States temporarily thanks to the government’s inability to keep us safe, the government continues to prove its inability to keep us safe. This week, we found out that President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security prohibited agents from screening foreign citizens applying for visas to enter the country.
According to former acting undersecretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis John Cohen, “During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process. … The primary concern was that it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly and there were concerns that it would be embarrassing.”
He continued, “It was primarily a question of optics. There were concerns from a privacy and civil liberties perspective that while this was not illegal, that it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly.”
So 14 Americans in San Bernardino died for optics.
This is the essence of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism suggests that all cultures are equal, that they carry equal values, that they pose equal threats to public safety. Extending that logic, we must treat suspects from all cultures with equal care. But what if not all cultures provide an equal threat? What if the people who engage in some cultures are more likely than others to participate in terrorism? Then, in order to maintain the multicultural fiction, we must bend over backwards not to check out threats from such cultures. Either that, or we must violate everyone’s civil rights equally.
Or at least they did. Across Europe, the reality of multiculturalism is hitting home. German chancellor Angela Merkel, who was recently named Time’s Person of the Year for taking in one million Syrian refugees, said, “Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a ‘life lie’ … We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably.” She was forced to denounce her own former viewpoint thanks to the fallout from her decisions: Refugee camps have turned into hotbeds of rape and child abuse. Mass Muslim immigration into Europe has heightened such challenges for years, of course, but the left and the press have suppressed such information.
“While Americans fret over Donald Trump’s plans to ban Muslim immigration to the United States temporarily thanks to the government’s inability to keep us safe, the government continues to prove its inability to keep us safe.”
Rest assured, you ware in the warm, safe bosom of government, citizen. You’re more likely to get hit by lightening than to be directly terrorized.
Now if you’ll just squat and cough for me…
Trump lives in your cowardly but otherwise empty skull.
It’s time for a HBB recent events Christmas song to the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
First you have to pretend you hear jingle bells.
OK now we can start.
We don’t care if they kill each other
That is what Oddfellow said
Obummer is the Chess Master
He doesn’t care if they’re all dead
Then one foggy Christmas eve
WPA came to say
Oddie with your skin so white
Won’t you tell then I am right
And then all the lefties loved him
We don’t care if they kill each other
It goes down in history
Our imaginative lying little writers are all having aneurysms in unison today.
Maybe you could work on this a little….
12 days of xmas, obama gave to thee….
12 realtors lying
11 lolas leaping
10 liberals whining
9 Cities crimes a’ risin’
8 growing ghettos
7 years of failure
6 donkeys braying
FIVE TRILLION IN DEBT!
Then all the readers loved him,
And they shouted out with glee,
Oddie, you brilliant poster,
You’ve made sense of history!
Then one paid-off Koch bro stooge,
Tried to shut him down,
Phony didn’t like Oddie’s wise retort,
About his Daily Black Crime Report,
Hey!
This is fun, phony. We haven’t had a sing-along in a long time.
Cheap money is going away, so buy a home now: Barbara Corcoran
or
Buy high, sell low.
RAISE!
Not one, not two, not three but FOUR quarter-point increases to completed some time in 2016. I thought she’d raise a quarter and then say some vague stuff about monitoring going forward. I’m surprised Yellen guided a full point. Guess she grew a pair — er, two pair.
She didn’t guide a full point. Read it again. “Guided”.
Oops. I meant “guided” is not a promise. It’s a “we’ll see”.
what a crock of sh@t that 200 point rally was on the rate hike.
looks like the goal is 4%.= by 2020
5% by 2030
0% by 2020.
GOP: Big gov! Big spending!!
SNEAKY RYAN PACKS BUDGET FULL OF GOODIES
liar: (AP did a fact check)
TED CRUZ on immigration policy: “What you do is you enforce the law… That means you stop the Obama administration’s policy of releasing criminal illegal aliens. Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million.”
THE FACTS: Cruz vastly overstates the deportation numbers for both presidents. Statistics from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that roughly 1.6 million were deported under Bush. Under Clinton, when the old Immigration and Naturalization Service oversaw deportations, the figure was about 870,000, according to the Migration Policy Institute. So far, about 2.4 million have been deported under the Obama administration.
cruz is the establishment GOP front runner
THE FACTS: Cruz vastly overstates the deportation numbers for both presidents.
Cruz is a “repulsive liar” as I described him hours before this fact check I think. But there is something more about Cruz that is hard to pin down right now.
IMO, Trump is a bullshit artist. But Cruz is something more ominous and menacing imo.
And they both live in your empty skull, rent-free.
I agree. Trump is a simple old-fashioned narcissistic oaf, shallow as a rain puddle, hateful or dangerous only because other people don’t seem real to him.
Cruz is a strange piece of work. Smug, hateful, smart, cunning, with a weird fastidious preciousness. Like a cross between Truman Capote and Hitler. With a little Eddie Munster thrown in.
They monkey with those numbers tremendously by switching up terms like removal and deportation. Trying to avoid apples to apples comparisons which they know make the current administration look bad.
You’ve been Trumped.
Why are you rehearsing Hillary’s victory speech for her?
Region IV
Region San Luis Obispo checking in.
I haven’t been here in decades. The beach hotel is good. Exercise equipment reasonable. This morning the ocean view was great.
Up north along the coast are dream real estate ocean villas. Climate is great and the views are great.
Dinner tonight was Sea bass with pumpkin flakes of some sort, with spinach and some apricot added. great combination. It tastes better than the words describe. The menu has it written better. With a 21 oz Firestone.
No time to go looking for caves along the shore.
21 oz ?
Serious question: Do Republican voters have below - average intelligence? If you have statistical evidence please post.
I’m still struggling to understand Trump’s popularity with Republican voters. Low IQ is one possible explanation.
I’ll be polite and say they are simple minded.
That is frustrating because you can tell those people facts and they will still refuse to budge from their opinion that goes against those facts.
However I think that is what partisanship is all about. I know Democrats who won’t change their opinion to new facts.
So if a group of scientists with the scientific tools of their choice can be confronted by this God and prove that he is omni-anything, I will stop being an atheist. Because I will have new facts.
If someone can prove that initiating force is moral and that voluntary associations are immoral, I will become a statist.
Low IQ is one possible explanation.
It’s a factor, certainly. You’re on the right path.
U.S.
Clinton and Allies Gleeful as Trump Dominates GOP Race
By Nina Burleigh On 12/15/15 at 2:51 PM
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes the stage for a speaker series at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on November 10.
Brian Snyder/Reuters
While Republicans gather in Las Vegas on Tuesday, their likely Democratic opponent will be keeping a cool eye on them from a Minneapolis party in her honor hosted by the liberal librarians’ Rush Limbaugh, Prairie Home Companion radio host Garrison Keillor. That soirée is but one of a half-dozen celebrity-studded events on the Clinton cash-raking calendar this week, including tomorrow night’s $27,000 per head Omaha fundraiser with Warren “Tax Me More” Buffett and Thursday’s party in New York with Drew Barrymore and other glitterati.
Awash in cash, swanning among swells and buoyed by the spectacle of Trumpian excesses, the Clinton camp relishes the prospect of the fifth GOP debate as a bonanza of earned media, with its potential to further alarm and energize moderates and the Democratic base, while making Clinton look calm and steady in comparison.
Clinton supporter David Brock runs two pro-Hillary PACs, American Bridge and Correct the Record. He called tonight’s show in Vegas an opportunity. “There is nothing like a GOP debate to clarify for the American people how anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-science, anti-gay and anti-women these candidates and their party truly is.”
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For sure half of us have below average intelligence. Yet we are pissed.
There is a blow back against the establishment. We don’t have a lot of proper ammunition, so we are loading the cannons with whatever is available. May not take the keep, but it will leave a mark.
Hopefully other politicians will catch the populist wave and offer alternatives to Trump-Clinton.
Dumb dumb double down…
Donald Trump Doubles Down on His Plan to Shut Down the Internet
Kate Knibbs
Tuesday 9:41pm
Filed to: I Mean Shutting Down Twitter Wouldn’t Be That Bad
Tonight’s GOP presidential debate in Vegas has already devolved into an argument over whether the next president should close down parts of the internet, with burnt-sienna insult balloon Donald Trump insisting again that, yep, why not, he’d close down parts of the internet.
“I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet, yes sir I am,” Trump told Wolf Blitzer after the moderator asked if he stood by his statements.
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White Horse
Trump Doubles Down on Muslim Travel Ban Plan
By Elizabeth Chmurak
Published December 08, 2015
FOXBusiness
Donald Trump is not backing down from his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, on Tuesday he made the morning show rounds to double down on his plan.
“I have no doubt that we have no choice but to do exactly what I said until our country’s representatives can figure out what the Hell is going on because we have a problem in this country,” said Trump on CNN adding his ban would be a temporary solution. A separate campaign press release provided more specifics on the plan.
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Politics
Trump Defends Tweeting Fabricated, Racist Murder Statistics
by Judd Legum Nov 23, 2015 9:17 pm
In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump defended tweeting a series of fabricated murder statistics designed to perpetuate racist stereotypes.
“I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and it was also a radio show,” Trump said.
Trump actually copy-and-pasted a tweet from @SeanSean252, an anonymous Twitter user. @SeanSean252’s bio does not indicate that he is an expert in crime statistics or any other kind of expert.
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Does Trump’s message resonate with your inner racist?
Does Trump excite your inner NAZI?
Chaos Ensues at Trump Rally as Supporters Shout Nazi Salute and Death Threats at #BlackLivesMatter Protesters
By Andrea Park
12/15/2015 AT 03:30 PM EST
At a Las Vegas rally for Donald Trump on Monday night, Black Lives Matter protesters received death threats from Trump supporters and were forcefully escorted out by security.
As one protester was dragged out of the event, supporters in the crowd yelled, “Shoot him,” “Kick his ass” and “Sieg heil,” a Nazi salute, NBC News reports.
MSNBC reporter Benjy Sarlin, who attended the rally, tweeted that as another protester was removed from the venue, a Trump supporter shouted, “He’s a Muslim guy! He’s a Muslim guy!”
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