December 22, 2015

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Comment by Hard Rain
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 05:46:33

Political correctness is the biggest threat. It is a threat to the truth itself and to freedom of speech.

Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 06:56:07

Snowflakes gonna flake

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:12:15

Nope. The biggest threat is the threat against our rig to own firearms and ammo. We must be able to match the firepower of the police and national guard to protect ourselves against tyranny. Net biggest threat is the public school indoctrination of state worshipping. Those who worship he state want us to give up our guns.

Comment by MacBeth
2015-12-22 09:45:44

Either way, note that the threat is internal.

I frame it as “domestic imperialism” which I have discussed earlier.

Growing control (tyranny) of the people by one’s own government. Divide and conquer is one of the methods being used by the statists.

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Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-22 10:17:59

Rather than try to match the military’s fire power, I would focus on an exit strategy.

Got foreign citizenship?

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Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 12:11:17

“We must be able to match the firepower of the police and national guard to protect ourselves against tyranny”

That ship sailed long ago. You can’t afford those weapons. Perhaps if a group of right thinking, Pure Americans pooled their resources, they could form a gun society to get them… a socialist gun club, if you will.

WOLVERINES!

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Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 12:16:33

‘That ship sailed long ago. You can’t afford those weapons.’

You do know the US military lost two wars recently to goat-herders?

 
Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-22 12:42:22

You do know the US military lost two wars recently to goat-herders?

Only because we are trying to appear to be “nice guys” and because we are tiring of “policing” and “nation building”. AFAIK there are no “FEMA death camps” in the middle east. There is no doubt we could exterminate the middle east if we really wanted to do so. But we don’t, because you know, #wearareallmuslim

If the government were to really turn on the American people, I doubt they will care too much about public opinion.

 
Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 12:57:41

Goat herders with RPGs, heavy machine guns, grenades, surface to air missiles, anti aircraft guns and any number of expensive toys we bought for them in the 80s.

Are any of you ready to drop 70k on weapons in anticipation of the coming civil war? Who’s gonna do the AA gun? Those are a bit spendy.

Anyone?

I’ve already got a 1911… and since I’ll be in a command role, I only need a sidearm.

And what is the command and control structure gonna be? How are we action movie stars to organize? Are you going to slavishly follow a God-annointed rebel king, executing all orders without question, or is it gonna be Daryl arguing with Earl over whether we have to say prayers before mess and bickering about whether Chester should be allowed to smoke dope?

I’ll tell you what the command structure will be: Groups of 3 to 4 overweight hillbillies, lead by an alphabilly, hauling 100lbs of guns and ammo to stage daring raids on the quickie mart in the dead of night, until they’re hunted down one by one, tracked by their discarded potato chip bags and finally given away by the sound of their panting and wheezing. Thus will end the second revolution.

I truly believe that the intent of the second amendment was so we could oust the government if need be. However, the largest military force ever created renders that catastropically moot.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 13:15:24

Gun Control It simply means hitting what you’re aiming at.

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 13:18:01

‘the largest military force ever created renders that catastropically moot’

No it doesn’t. The US got beat by guys who used insurgency. It’s what beat the US in Vietnam. Insurgents don’t stand out in a field plunking at helicopters. They put an IED next to the road and blow the Hummer 15 feet into the air. It’s not hard, it’s not expensive. It’s not even that dangerous. Insurgents only have to wear them down. And I don’t think the average US military person is going to take long to turn the guns around anyway.

Look up 4th generation war. The US is in 2nd or 3rd mode, because modern war is really about spending lots of loot.

 
Comment by Rental Watch
2015-12-22 13:54:16

And students of the Revolutionary War will recall how we gained our independence. It wasn’t because we had longer lines of people with better muskets and cannons that fired farther distances. It was in significant part because we engaged in guerrilla warfare (very effectively).

 
Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 14:08:51

Fighting a war in your own back yard is much easier than fighting one half way around the world.

Remember what happened in our civil war? When push came to shove, the rebels weren’t fighting the cops and coast guard. The real army was brought to bear.

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 16:50:56

‘Remember what happened in our civil war?’

Yes, it wasn’t 4th generation. They all lined up on a field and took turns shooting at each other. Then they ran straight at each other. There were insurgent elements to that war, but had the South fought like the Vietnamese did, the outcome would have been different.

 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:24:37

This is always the silliest of arguments, the military could no more control a country of 300 million than cops can control the criminals. It’s logistically impossible, but that is ignored so the gun grabbers can feel like it’s no big deal.

What is there something like 3 million in the military, even including reserves. Seriously you should watch Red Dawn. Occupation and pacification is very different than dropping bombs.

 
Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 21:15:42

The military would eventually exterminate what it couldn’t control. This isn’t some occupied country halfway across the planet… this is the Homeland.

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 21:21:43

‘The military would eventually exterminate what it couldn’t control.’

OK, now we’re in LALA land.

 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 13:04:21

How can you be pro huge military and also want to make sure you can have an ak47 to defend yourself against air strikes and tanks?

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Comment by Biggvs_Richardvs
2015-12-22 15:12:07

I got news for you: They have Tanks. And nukes.

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Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 20:18:08

I got news for you: They have Tanks. And nukes.

Who is “they?” I am talking about Joe Public.

 
 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:33:26

The dumbing-down of the population is THE biggest threat. Few things frighten me more than tens of millions of stupid people casting votes.

Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-22 19:49:09

“Few things frighten me more than tens of millions of stupid people casting votes.”

Your fear will transform into glee once you learn how to manipulate the stupids.

Political voting happens every two years or so but financial voting happens every day; Every time a stupid signs a dotted line he casts a vote.

All one has to do to profit and to prosper is to arrange it so the stupids will willingly enter your domain so as to exercise his/her free right to stupidity. Your cost may be as little as financing a free cup of coffee or two which is akin to chumming for fish (which is, at root, what you will be doing).

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Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 06:28:18

Paranoids gonna paranoid.

 
 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 05:45:19

Uber-neocon Kristol throwing a tantrum at the prospect of the GOP base rejecting being the zombie political arm of AIPAC and the Likud Party.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2015/12/21/bill-kristol-well-start-new-party-trump-wins-nomination/

Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-22 06:38:33

First the GOP made Trump promise he wouldn’t run as an independent. Now they’re going to run an independent against him.

That is irony. And possibly the end of the Republican party as we know it.

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-22 06:58:49

Kristol is looking for a name for the new party. I suggest the NeoConArtists. Or maybe the Flipflops. The Petardtoppers?

Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 07:21:15

Goldwater, Anderson, liberal Republicans, oh how we forget what the two party system used to be. Remember the Dixie-crats? There used to be so-called liberals and conservatives in both parties. But one represented more-or-less labor and one business. The key word here is represented. Don’t both deserve to be represented? As in a competition of interests where we find a middle ground that works for the country.

Long ago we lost that, when both parties coalesced around globalism and empire. About the same time, one became the party of liberals and the other conservatives. And also became determined to vanquish the other (at least in the mind of the public). No more representation, this is war! People wonder why they fight so much, while agreeing to keep the globalism and empire off the table for discussion.

It’s called checks and balances. These two parties belong to all of us, and if one is corrupted our system doesn’t work. We should all be concerned with the health of the political system. We should all be concerned when important issues like globalism and war aren’t vigorously and continually weighted as to how it is serving the people.

Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-22 07:37:48

There used to be so-called liberals and conservatives in both parties. But one represented more-or-less labor and one business.

I think that’s another one we can pin on Nixon. His “southern strategy” almost inevitably resulted in where the two parties find themselves today. And Trump is taking the southern strategy and running with it, literally and figuratively.

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Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 07:53:09

I don’t know, Reagan winning 44 then 49 states doesn’t seem very divisive or southern strategy like. Try again.

 
Comment by Oddfellow
2015-12-22 08:14:06

I didn’t say it wasn’t successful, clearly it was. But it was also the beginning of the end of the liberal wing of the GOP, and the conservative wing of the Dems. The parties began forming up more on cultural issues than economic ones.

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:33:13

Reagan and Tip, both Irish guys, were great friends. Reagan was frustrated by being forced to compromise. As a young onpbjectivist during the Reagan era (I did not ever vote for him or George H) I was opposed to compromise. Still am opposed.

 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 12:34:48

I love the Reagan Excuses.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 13:08:13

I love the Reagan making Excuses.

Fixt for Anklepants. :mrgreen:

 
 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:15:25

I need to steal your second paragraph Ben, particularly the last sentence in it.

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Comment by Larry Littlefield
2015-12-22 08:33:45

The bottom line is that the country has bankrupted itself. Empire and war are factors, excess consumption is a factor, covering up rising inequality is a factor. Younger generations have been left worse off.

Politics has become about who is to blame. No one wants to blame themselves, and no one wants to talk about Generation Greed.

So who is it? The Blacks? That was 1994. The Mexicans? The Chinese? The Muslims?

Everybody that got foreclosed, than ran up their credit cards, that lost their last dollar at one of Donald Trump’s casinos wants a scapegoat and an excuse. And those who took advantage of their weaknesses and failures want the attention directed elsewhere.

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Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-22 09:02:08

“Everybody that got foreclosed, than ran up their credit cards, that lost their last dollar at one of Donald Trump’s casinos wants a scapegoat and an excuse.”

Victims! Every one of them.

“And those who took advantage of their weaknesses and failures want the attention directed elsewhere.”

“Elsewhere” happens to be a bank. Now that the fools have been identified their further exploitation needs to progress as God intended.

Fools weep, banker reap. God’s plan.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 09:45:40

“Everybody that got foreclosed, than ran up their credit cards, that lost their last dollar at one of Donald Trump’s casinos wants a scapegoat and an excuse.”

Mad as hell about your gambling losses?

VOTE TRUMP!

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 09:52:32

‘the country has bankrupted itself’

That may be, but bankruptcy isn’t death, so what do we do now? Bill said he doesn’t compromise, which explain the dearth of libertarians in DC. But Ron Paul never lost a congressional election, to my knowledge. When he could explain what he was for and against, the voters supported it. The GOP tried everything to get rid of him, but he would get reelected. A lot of that was because he found not what to compromise, but what he could agree with. Trump the phenomenon is important because it shows a body of the public wants change. Do we change trade, immigration? These are key issues.

Can we agree it’s not working? Example; this week the most significant changes to the WTO in 19 years were made. The indisputable fact that we know almost nothing of it until it is done (in Africa of all places) suggests where some reforms could be made. I can remember when congress hashed out trade agreements, one by one. Now? Who even knows what the process is or will be?

Another; the recent budget deal included very specific guidelines for how the DEA can give guns to Mexican cartel members. Hello, how about never? Can we agree on that?

 
Comment by MacBeth
2015-12-22 09:55:21

“Politics has become about who is to blame.”

“that lost their last dollar at one of Donald Trump’s casinos wants a scapegoat and an excuse.”

It sure has.

 
 
 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 07:06:36

William Kristol has never donated money to or volunteered his time for the Wounded Warriors Project. That ain’t how neocons roll yo.

Need to listen to “Masters Of War” by Bob Dylan.

William Kristol is EVIL.

Comment by oxide
2015-12-22 10:58:11

For perspective, the military service of Teddy Roosevelt and his four sons:

Theodore Roosevelt II: Mustered up the Rough Riders, served in Spanish American War in Cuba. In 1916 (age 58) Congress asked him to raise more volunteer Rough Riders but was overruled by Woodrow Wilson.

Theodore Roosevelt III: served WW1. One of the Founders of the American Legion in 1919. Led a battalion on Utah Beach on D-Day (age 56). Died of a heart attack one month later in France.

Kermit Roosevelt: Served in WW1. Served in the British Army in WW2. They tried to discharge him on medical grounds (malaria + alcohol) but he refused to leave. Winston Churchill himself had to discharge Kermit. Served during WW2 in Alaska.

Archie Roosevelt: served in WWI. Wounded in the knee, discharged with 100% disability. Applied to serve in WWII, wounded again same knee, discharged again with 100% disability. Returned to his unit in 1944.

Quentin Roosevelt: Served in WW1 as a pilot. Shot down over Germany age 20.

Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 13:20:32

Roosevelt: a great progressive family. JP Morgan hated them.

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:38:20

A “great progressive” who handed over eastern Europe to his buddy “Uncle Joe” Stalin.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 17:46:19

And imposed the greatest money robbing govt scheme of all time: social insecurity.

 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 20:21:14

and he created lots of federally protected lands. And broke up the railroad monopolies.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-23 05:16:22

And robbed everybody blind in the process.

 
 
 
 
Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-22 09:40:53

Kristol, Rove, Hayes, Will, etc. don’t realize that the electorate has moved on and want’s nothing to do with these paid for shills. Eff them.

Comment by MacBeth
2015-12-22 10:00:51

Not everyone has moved on. NeoCons = Progressives.

Note where the upheaval is happening. It ain’t on the left side of the aisle. As far as most liberals are concerned, more of the same is a good thing.

Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 12:15:52

At this point I thin they’re more concerned with fending off the moonbat brigade. Once that side reduces itself to a smoking, gibbering ruin, the libs will probably start cleaning their own house.

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Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-22 12:44:26

I think both sides are hopelessly lost to insanity.

 
Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 13:06:13

That may well be the case. I like to think that SOMEBODY in government hasn’t lost their freaking mind.

 
 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:41:02

Until the electorate proves otherwise, 95% of them are demonstrably stupid and haven’t moved anywhere. Low-information voters are like putty in the hands of Kristol, Rove, Hayes, and the rest of the manipulators. I mean, these are the same ‘tards who thought a Soros-backed former “community organizer” would bring “hope and change we can believe in.”

 
 
 
Comment by taxpayers
2015-12-22 06:06:13

next yr interest rate predictions?

how about RE prices nationwide- I’m guessing down 2%

Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:17:16

Federal funds at 50 basis points next December. That is, one rate hike. And RE prices plus or minus 2%.

 
 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 06:18:23

Breaker breaker coffeemaker you got your ears on? Lola’s willy weaving to idiot island this AM watching his donkey for Soros Starsky and Hutchers, come back.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 06:31:07

Your posts get weirder by the day. I suggest you stay focused on the Trump campaign effort.

Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 07:33:44

Much as you suggest Trump is just honeydicking all of his supporters, I still don’t believe it. He brought up the Establishment’s that which shall not be named: immigration. He also doesn’t buy into your skin color politics as his comments on Muslims show. He’s probably even going to have a Hispanic VP. How’s them apples?

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 09:48:13

“honeydicking”

That’s gross, and I never suggested it. Take proper credit for your own vile metaphors.

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Comment by MacBeth
2015-12-22 10:06:05

No, but you’re big on defining Trump a bigot and yourself as an independent.

One of those I consider an incorrect definition.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 10:14:10

You can incorrectly assume I’m not an independent if you choose, but I’m glad we can agree on Trump’s bigotry.

 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:27:14

We only agree on your honeydicking, which is simply telling people what they want to hear to get your own gain.

 
 
Comment by oxide
2015-12-22 13:29:18

The other Establishment thing which shall not be named is the dark money.

As Red Pill says, the electorate began to move away from the Rove strategy when Romney lost in 2012, but Rove et al could never admit it. I think Rove was planning to try it one more time against an opponent who was weaker than incumbent Obama … until Trump very publicly told them all to go pound sand.

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Comment by CoffeeMaker
2015-12-22 07:05:42

Got a copy on that. I saw Lola in Obama’s cabover on the downstroke rollin’ outta ShakeyTown.

Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 07:39:47

Cabover? I pegged him for a dead pedal bull rack, but his 20 aint no way Brazil. Professor Smokey Bear’s got his ears on.

Comment by CoffeeMaker
2015-12-22 08:05:11

Smokey bears got his ears on but he ain’t listenin.

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Comment by Michael Viking
2015-12-22 15:18:02

Totally have him pegged for a pregnant roller skate.

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Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 06:24:49

As Mafia put it brilliantly yesterday, Trump is a dream date for those who hate the political establishment.

Or at least you’d think so. Turns out a lot here who have been claiming for years to hate the political establishment and would take the one opportunity in the last 50 years to vote for a realistic candidate who is not establishment with a chance of winning all of a sudden aren’t so anti establishment.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 06:39:12

“As Mafia put it brilliantly yesterday, Trump is a dream date for those who hate the political establishment.”

You might want to seek help if one of your blog personas continues rating the others.

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:22:50

Sorry good buddy.

Only libertarianism is anti establishment. Trump is an insider.

 
Comment by Larry Littlefield
2015-12-22 09:34:39

Who knows what Trump would do if he wins?

He’s a sharpie who knows how to play the “losers.” I’m no sure he believes 1/4 of the stuff he says, or which 1/4 to believe.

 
Comment by WPA
2015-12-22 10:56:11

Trump is a dream date for those who hate the political establishment.

Absolutely not. As I’ve posted before, he’s a Trojan Horse candidate.

His populist bluster is an insincere act that’s successful in fooling voters just like you. Once in office he will be a door mat for any big business with connections who needs government favors at the middle class’ expense.

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 12:54:02

His Obama’s populist bluster is an insincere act that’s successful in fooling voters just like you. Once in office he will be a door mat for any big business with connections who needs government favors at the middle class’ expense.

Now that is far more truthful.

 
Comment by Biggvs_Richardvs
2015-12-22 16:11:44

Once in office he will be a door mat for any big business with connections who needs government favors at the middle class’ expense.

And that’s SOOO different from what we have now.

Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:30:16

They still can’t explain why he’d rile people up on immigration though if this is the plan. All he needs to do is put the question square to Hill.

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:46:25

We’ve had nothing but craven toadies for Wall Street and the banksters for as far back as I can remember. All of the other candidates, with the possible exception of Rand Paul, are bought and paid for by the Oligopoly. So I’ll take a chance that Trump might actually be sincere in wanting to be the kind of strong, intelligent leader that the Oligopoly’s Hollow Men are most emphatically not.

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Comment by Bubblebot
2015-12-22 21:51:35

“So I’ll take a chance that Trump might actually be sincere in wanting to be the kind of strong, intelligent leader that the Oligopoly’s Hollow Men are most emphatically not.”

Agreed. He does have a genuinely huge ego but I think that
will drive him to at least try to fix the things the others won’t
even speak of.

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 06:28:19

Germans reaping their just desserts as their votes for globalist and bankster toady Angela Merkel and her ilk are delivering predictable consequences.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7088/germany-weapons

 
Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 06:37:20

‘A guy with $170,000 in student loans who can’t find a job in the legal profession is suing his law school and working full time for Uber’

‘Clark Moffatt, 35, says he dreamed of a career in criminal justice when he graduated from San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2006. But since graduating, he says he’s never held a job in the legal profession, or earned more than $25,000 a year. He lives in a rented mobile home and receives food stamps to provide for his wife and two children, he says.’

“It’s both frustrating and, to a degree, humiliating,” Moffatt told Business Insider in a recent phone interview.’

‘Moffatt is one of 12 former TJSL students now suing the law school, which they claim intentionally inflated postgraduation employment figures and salaries in order to lure applicants. The school is accused of reporting postgraduation employment figures that topped 90% in 2010 but neglecting to disclose that the figures included part-time work, such as pool cleaner and Victoria’s Secret sales clerk, the Associated Press reported this month, citing the suit and an attorney for the graduates.’

‘Many for-profit schools have been accused of aggressively recruiting students with a focus on depositing their federal financial-aid checks rather than providing them with a quality education.’

“Currently I’m a driver for Uber full time,” he said. Moffatt, like some other Uber drivers, struggles to make ends meet.’

Whoa now, are you telling me Uber isn’t the new frontier? Next thing you’ll be saying Airbnb isn’t the ticket to riches everyone makes it out to be.

Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-22 06:52:19

Dumb ‘em down, and profit.

From Wikipedia …

“According to U.S. News & World Report, the average indebtedness of 2013 graduates who incurred law school debt was $180,665 (not including undergraduate debt), and 92% of 2013 graduates took on debt.This information is useful to consider given that only 28.8% of 2012 graduates obtained full-time, long term positions requiring bar admission (i.e., jobs as lawyers) within 9 months after graduation.”

 
Comment by ibbots
2015-12-22 07:06:47

A law degree isn’t all that special without bar admission. It doesn’t appear Mr. Moffatt is licensed in CA.

‘Says he’s never held a job in the legal profession, or earned more than $25,000 a year’

A little hustle goes a long way.

Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 08:55:28

Lawyer can’t get work as a lawyer, so he hires a lawyer. Brilliant!

Comment by ibbots
2015-12-22 11:44:51

Except he isn’t a lawyer…lawyers are licensed.

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Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 12:09:19

I acknowledge that he didn’t pass the bar. I still thought it was ironic.

And of course, it isn’t his fault.

 
 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 07:17:00

So why doesn’t he just declare bankruptcy and start over?

Just like the US Constitution says he can.

Oh wait - he can’t.

Isn’t bigger and bigger government great?

Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-22 09:43:48

Balls meet big governments grip.

 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 10:19:32

Every attorney used to try that (BK), end up with free law school and expenses. we put a stop to that scam.

stop spending my $$

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 10:38:07

Get government out of financing higher education.

Allow Constitutional bankruptcy laws to be applied.

NONE of your money will be spent.

And college educational costs will become affordable again.

But government will shrink and lose power.

So all democrats will oppose.

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Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 12:23:37

If I can go to law school for 3-4 yrs, borrow $200k, live high on the hog, then file BK….guess what I am doing next?

Even Reagan grew the gov.

 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 13:39:42

If I can go to law school for 3-4 yrs, borrow $200k, live high on the hog, then file BK….guess what I am doing next?

That would be a PRIVATE agreement between a lender and you - a borrower.

My guess, no lender is going to do it (risk/reward). End of insane tuition costs. NOT ONE penny in government money lost.

But hard to buy new democrats votes that way. So no democrat will support.

 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 20:22:38

so you want to change gov backed loans for tuition, but still allow BK? Yep, no loans will be given.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-23 05:14:40

That would be a good thing Lola.

 
 
 
 
Comment by dwkunkel
2015-12-22 09:48:46

He already has two kids? What a moron.

 
Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-22 10:18:33

“working full time for Uber”

Perfect time for the government to quadruple the number of H2b visas. 95 million out of work, competition for service jobs so fierce that teenagers can not find part time work…Still doubt the government is not working for us?

Forced demographic change is un-American and evil.

 
 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 06:42:59

Has oil finally bottomed out?

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 06:44:39

BBC News
Business
Oil price: Brent crude hits 11-year low
21 December 2015
From the section Business

Oil prices have fallen to levels not seen since 2004, surpassing the lows seen during the recession of 2008.

Brent crude sank to $36.05 a barrel - its weakest since July 2004 - before recovering slightly to $36.56.

A global oversupply has dramatically driven down the price of oil, with suppliers failing to reach agreements to address the glut.

Just 18 months ago, in June 2014, the price of oil was traded at $115 per barrel.

The price of US crude was also down on Monday, dropping 40 cents to $34.17 a barrel - the lowest since 2009.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 07:49:38

I am backing up the truck here.

Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:28:45

Back up the truck for international stocks too. Indices are down substantially from a year ago and yields are up. Buy after the distributions. DODFX distributes today.

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Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 12:25:06

DODFX

A little too soon, make sure you buy monthly, not all in at once.

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 13:32:34

I’ve bought yearly after Christmas. For ten years. Because it is in my Vanguard voyager account which has a steep fixed fee when balance is under $50,000.

 
 
Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 08:56:33

Backing up the donkey wagon?

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Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 09:52:34

How this turns out depends on at what point the Fed next panics and invokes QE4. I suppose it could be coincidental that oil collapsed when QE3 ended, but I have serious doubts.

 
Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 11:29:07

It’s not QE4, it will take another China Miracle.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 11:46:42

Luckily the Chinese central financial authorities are hard at work trying to rescussitate their economic miracle.

 
Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 12:16:13

China has 5 main goals for 2016: reduce housing inventory, deleverage balance sheets, shut overproduction, cut business costs and fix the weak links.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-reveals-focus-of-its-2016-economic-plan-2015-12-21

China is going to be busy for a while cleaning up from the last Miracle. It will have to be someone else.

 
 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 10:10:17

Poet,

Is Lola a passenger in your truck?

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Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-22 12:47:13

The price of US crude was also down on Monday, dropping 40 cents to $34.17 a barrel - the lowest since 2009.

Curiously, I’m seeing retail gasoline prices inch up in my neck of the woods. A gas station that was $1.67 two weeks ago is now $1.77

 
 
 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 06:50:41

The Examiner Union
Goldman Sachs may face trial for role in Greek debt crisis
Thursday, 17 December 2015

Goldman Sachs faces the prospect of potential legal action from Greece over the complex financial deals in 2001 that many blame for its subsequent debt crisis.

A leading adviser to debt-riven countries has offered to help Athens recover some of the vast profits made by the investment bank.

The Independent has learnt that a ex- Goldman banker, who has advised indebted governments on recovering losses made from complex transactions with banks, has written to the Greek government to advise that it has a chance of clawing back some of the hundreds of millions of dollars it paid Goldman to secure its position in the single currency.

The development came as Greece edged towards a last-minute deal with its creditors which will keep it from crashing out of the single currency.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:48:48

Goldman Sachs is literally above the law. No senior Goldman exec need ever fear the captured judiciaries in the US, UK, or EU.

Free Jon Corzine!

 
 
Comment by Donald Trump
2015-12-22 07:12:51

People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.

Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 07:43:07

Rent free b*tches.

Neocons _and_ SJW’s alike crap their Depends at the thought of it.

Comment by palmetto
2015-12-22 11:05:11

Go, Bulworth!

 
 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 08:12:01

Mr. Trump. You have this extraordinary ability to send many into fits of uncontrolled rage.

You have found a fitting home here on the HBB. Welcome.

Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-22 16:38:19

Are you talking to yourself again, HA?

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 16:41:57

Data my friend. Stick with the data.

Seattle, WA Housing Prices Crater 6% YoY

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Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 10:00:09

Would a Trump-Putin bromance be something like if Luke Skywalker had turned to the Dark Side of the Force and teamed up with Darth Vader?

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 23:43:22

December 08, 2015 - 01:04 PM EST
Trump joins dark side…
By Judy Kurtz

Donald Trump has joined the dark side … as Darth Vader.

In the YouTube video by Auralnauts.com, Trump’s voice is heard emanating from behind the mask of the famed “Star Wars” character.

 
 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 10:04:36

The State Journal Register
OPINION
Their View: Do we really want a Putin-Trump bromance?
Posted Dec 21, 2015 at 10:02 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed a preference for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race on Thursday, saying “there is no doubt that he is a very bright and talented man.

“It is not our business to assess his merits; that is up to the U.S. voters. But he is an absolute leader of the presidential race.”

Likewise, Trump has a thing for Vlad, saying that he can “probably get along with” the man who attacks his neighbors and backs tyrants, while expressing an admiration for his “tremendous popularity in Russia” and suggesting, “You can make deals with those people.”

Given that Putin is all about re-exerting Russian dominance in the world and opposing the U.S. throwing its weight around, his fondness for Comrade Trump and vice versa should be very telling. Indeed, if Putin wants him in the White House, do American voters?

— GateHouse News Service. This editorial originally appeared in the Peoria Journal Star.

Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 11:36:47

“man who attacks his neighbors”

Yeah, I get it that it’s election season and you need to load the guns against Republicans as always. However, you and I must have been reading things differently about Crimea. Aren’t Putin’s cousins living there? Didn’t the US overthrow the legitimate government there, right in Russia’s back yard? Did Putin attack Crimea?

 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 07:13:23

Cicero knew his stuff:

“We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace - these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heartblood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? … When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”

Comment by Overbanked
2015-12-22 07:43:18

Tax Freedom Day
1979: April 22
1989: May 2
1999: April 25
2006: May 1
2015: May 8

http://taxfoundation.org/article/tax-freedom-day-2014-data-tables

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 07:45:55

Solid argument against a neocon foreign policy there brony.

 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 09:17:21

I’m boxed in as a salary man and no more stocks to sell. But that means my taxes will be lower in the 2016 tax year. 2015 AGI is going to be much lower than 2014 also. Since dropping half my housing costs and my airline travel, coffee shop habit, and going onto Two Buck Chuck, I think my expenditures have gone down enough for me to continue my full contribution to Roth 401k in 2016.

I am in my own nonviolent revolution against taxes and am enjoying the heck out of it.

If everyone can drop their AGI by at least 25% we could starve the beast and stop empire.

Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 11:40:57

Getting out of debt is the big step most people need to make to tear down the establishment. Only a nation of debtors would put up with the behavior of our government.

Comment by Rental Watch
2015-12-22 13:37:06

The problem with that plan is that if we step off the consumption wheel (collectively), we will have a recession, and the government will step in with more debt at the government level, forcing us to be a collective debtor, instead of being individual debtors.

We need to start by shrinking government. Reduced debt levels can follow.

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Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 17:02:52

I still believe you have it backwards. A dishonest people will not elect an honest government, nor force a dishonest one to reform. We can have as good a government as we want here, we only have to choose so.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:50:22

An electorate comprised of 95% cretins will not put a statesman in the White House.

 
Comment by Rental Watch
2015-12-22 17:52:49

There is dishonest, and there is incompetent.

I’m afraid when it comes to fiscal matters, what we have is an incompetent voter pool. We have a populace that can’t do entitlement math combined with demographic reality.

If we did, they would be scared to death of the upcoming cost of Medicare, and any politician that brushed it aside as though it wasn’t a big deal would not be voted into office.

 
Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 18:08:12

And there is insightful, or the lack thereof.

We are in the biggest mass mania in history. It is rolling over.

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by aNYCdj
2015-12-22 07:21:50
Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 07:52:57

It will be in foreclosure soon.

 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 08:14:59

How many times have we seen this.

Since I am a celebrity I can list a house for double what I paid for it.

Because my star power made the place more valuable…

And it will sit for years…

Diaz listed the two-bedroom Village condo for $4.25 million in early November; 47 days ago, to be exact. Diaz, who picked the condo up for $2.95 million in 2008

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-22 09:25:22

“Because my star power made the place more valuable…”

Even after death … especially after death …

“Even 47 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe’s star burns so brightly that bidders are lining up for the chance to be rest near her.
A highly publicized eBay auction for the crypt directly above hers in a Los Angeles cemetery ended Aug 24. It attracted 21 bids - many reaching into the millions of dollars … ”

Read more here …

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1919236_1919237_1919221,00.html

Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-22 10:20:34

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha … an enterprising puke could:

1. Corner as many empty crypts as possible at a trendy cemetery, then …

2. Wait for a famous celebrity to die, then …

3. Offer a lucrative deal to the celebrity’s grieving family members to have the celebrity buried near one of the crypts that has been cornered, which would …

4. Increase the values of the nearby crypts, the ones that have been cornered, and these crypts could then be auctioned off on eBay for some very big bucks to various idiots who are DYING to get buried next to a celeb.

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Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 11:43:02

Payment in cryptocurrency accepted.

 
Comment by In Colorado
2015-12-22 12:50:16

Payment in cryptocurrency accepted.

Hmmmm … maybe you can take Bitcoin with you?

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by aNYCdj
2015-12-22 07:44:12

Tim Cook says this is the real reason Apple products are made in China

“The U.S., over time, began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills,”

sounds like Mike Rowe was right

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tim-cook-apple-doesnt-make-its-products-in-china-because-its-cheaper-2015-12-20?link=sfmw_fb

Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-22 10:14:58

Oh, so who was it who shut down all of the industrial arts programs in our public schools? Oh yeah, the government-educational complex! The people who want 100% of the chillins to go on to rack up six-figure college loans, so the tenured professors can live it up in la-la land.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:52:33

What Tim Cook really meant to say is that ‘Murica is too far down the road to IDIOCRACY to think about making Apple products here. Can you imagine the slack-jawed dullards who voted for hope ‘n change trying to assemble an iPod?

 
 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 11:52:43

The Muslim women I know don’t wear hijabs, which seems prudent based kn personal security grounds, given the anti-Muslim bigotry that Republican politicians are encouraging.

When in Rome, do as the Romans.

Comment by Ethan in Northern VA
2015-12-22 12:56:02

Come to my nabe! Walmart sometimes looks like one would imagine a pakistan mart or something. Ladies with the head wraps all hunched over their shopping carts avoiding eye contact with whitey.

Not sure if muslim or not, might just be other superstitions.

Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-22 16:40:13

Same at the ones near me. We now live in a wonderful multicultural, diverse country!

I try to go before noon while the FSA is still asleep.

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Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:36:24

I’m sure the Muslim women you know speak out frequently on the murderous thugs ruining their religion and are the first to the microphone to condemn people like the San Bernardino killers.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:54:43

The Muslim women I know don’t wear hijabs, which seems prudent based kn personal security grounds, given the anti-Muslim bigotry that Republican politicians are encouraging.

It might have more to do with what certain hijab-wearers, e.g. that psychotic bitch who went on a jihad bender in San Bernadino with her husband, have done lately.

Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 18:32:41

Have you seen a single person from their mosque on the news coming out denouncing them and all radical jihadis who support ISIS? Have you seen their Imam do this? What about the guy’s mom who lived with them? No, the community closes ranks and CAIR holds a press conference to play the rubes.

Time for the nonhijabis to show some backbone and quit playing victim.

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Comment by wondering
2015-12-22 08:44:51

Cutie patootie? Fixer upper? Big mistake?

Winsted to get $70,000 for former official’s property
Town meeting votes unanimously to sell Centrella house
BY KURT MOFFETT REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

WINSTED — Voters at Monday night’s town meeting unanimously supported the sale of former Finance Director Henry L. Centrella’s former home at 198 Gilbert Ave. for $70,000.

The tally at Town Hall was 25-0, with one abstention from local real estate broker David L. Sartirana, who the town hired to market the property.

The new owners, Kelsey and Patricia McKernan of Farmington, now have 45 days to close on the property. They were the only ones to make an offer.

The town has owned the Centrella house and its nearly half-acre lot for more than a year. Centrella gave up the house, built in 1929, as part of his plea agreement, which included paying restitution on the $2 million he stole from the town. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison in April 2014.

After a brief PowerPoint presentation of the property by Mayor A. Candy Perez, only two voters spoke. Both Arthur W. Meylcher and Frank Berg, a local real estate agent and chairman of Economic Development Commission, addressed the repairs that the single-family house needs.

Sartirana, owner of Northwest CT Realty, said last week the house is sinking because the sill beneath it is rotting. A kitchen window cannot close because the house is buckling. The back deck will need to be removed to replace the sill, he said.

The two-door garage, covered with a tarp, needs a new roof. Inside, the floors are warped and there are cracks in the kitchen ceiling.

In the basement, a couple of pump jacks hold up the weight of the house. Asbestos covers some of the pipes and sump pumps are there to remove rainwater.

Much of the noticeable damage has occurred over the past year while it sat vacant, Sartirana said. The damage is largely why the house took so long to sell and why the price dropped from $159,000 to $149,000 to $119,000 to $99,000.

Berg said a home inspection report confirms all of the necessary work, which could take months to complete and possibly cost between $30,000 and $50,000.

The house was assessed at $110,180 in 2012.

Kelsey McKernan said she and her husband are first-time home buyers and are about to start a family. She said they like the neighborhood and the necessary repairs have not scared them off.

Contact Kurt Moffett at kmoffett@rep-am.com.

Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 09:08:40

‘Much of the noticeable damage has occurred over the past year while it sat vacant, Sartirana said. The damage is largely why the house took so long to sell and why the price dropped from $159,000 to $149,000 to $119,000 to $99,000.’

Yet these foreclosures, that take years to accomplish, somehow remain on the balance sheets at the same number.

Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 10:21:11

Do you want the gov to do something about that?

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 10:45:01

Do you want to be put back in your RageCage?

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:56:29

Yet these foreclosures, that take years to accomplish, somehow remain on the balance sheets at the same number.

It’s a Festivus miracle!

 
 
 
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 08:48:23

Shack sales post the largest drop in November since five years.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-existing-home-sales-plunge-150218271.html

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 10:06:36

Nearly a moot point as we all know they’ve been papering over collapsing demand like they did back in 2011.

collapsing.housing.demand.

 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 08:51:57

Buy overpriced housing today and embrace infinite sorrow.

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 08:54:55

Don’t be a debt donkey and you can avoid these problems:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/business/dealbook/sued-over-old-debt-and-blocked-from-suing-back.html

Debt is SLAVERY

 
Comment by Goon
Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 09:03:27

Molina Labe. I will be one of tens of millions of outlaws holding onto my firearms and ammo if they come for mine.

Cuomo’s firearms law in NEW York last year was a total failure. Estimated Millions of people ignore his law. Only a trickle of guns were turned into the regime.

Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 09:04:35

Nolon labe.

Comment by The Selfish Hoarder
2015-12-22 09:09:53

Still can’t get it right :( dam iPad.

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Comment by Cracker Bob
2015-12-22 10:49:34

Labia?

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Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 18:39:53

Neon Labia

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:57:35

At the stroke of a pen, Coumo created a million felons who up to that point were peaceful, law-abiding people.

 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 09:10:23

Why are all democrats so anti 2nd Amendment?

The first thing they do when ever they gain power is gun control and gun bans.

There is a difference in parties.

Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 09:22:25

Young libertarians are the only hope left for this country.

I can’t do neocon and culture wars.

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 10:44:19

Then you will live as a disarmed slave when the democrat super majority becomes a reality.

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Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 17:59:48

+1. It’s no accident predatory oligarchs like Soros and Bloomberg are leading the charge to disarm the population. Only then can the sheeple be herded - forcibly if need be - onto the neo-feudalists’ incorporated globalist plantation to be exploited and fleeced at will.

 
 
 
Comment by WPA
2015-12-22 11:00:41

Why are all democrats so anti 2nd Amendment?

Straw man. Many dems, like me, own firearms.

Why are all republicans supportive of the mentally ill and terrorists on the no fly list to have unlimited access to weapons and ammo at gun shows? Two can play the straw man rhetoric game.

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 11:13:22

Because faceless bureaucrats can put anyone on the “no fly” list for any reason with no due process.

That it is nearly impossible to get off the no fly list.

And you want to give this power to the same government that goes after political enemies with the IRS.

No liberal will answer this question:

Why is the “no fly” list not an “arrest now” list?

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Comment by WPA
2015-12-22 12:02:29

No liberal will answer this question: Why is the “no fly” list not an “arrest now” list?

The same reason people who have been served restraining orders are not arrested nor do they need to have prior convictions. Restraining orders do not require a criminal trial, only that a judge agree there’s enough evidence of a threat of possible harm. The no fly list is essentially a restraining order, there is probable cause sufficient to keep you off the plane.

 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 13:42:59

Restraining orders have:

Due Process.
A judge to order it.
A time period.
A way to cancel it.
A reason for it.

I have said it before.

Democrats never think the unconstitutional tactics they use against others will ever be used against them one day.

 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:39:09

Prove you need a gun. Prove you need free speech.

 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 14:25:00

I have mine too. But I am just anti-neo con.

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Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 09:02:32

Top link on the Huffington Post right now:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-homicide-updates-20151221-story.html

And a reminder from Ice Cube:

“What they do
Gonna ban the AK
My sh*t wasn’t registered
Any f*ing way”

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-22 09:54:54

Dunblane: How UK school massacre led to tighter gun control

By Peter Wilkinson, CNN
Updated 5:57 PM ET, Wed January 30, 2013

What happened at Dunblane?

Shortly after 9 a.m. on March 13, 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a 43-year-old former Scout leader, burst into the gymnasium of a primary school in the tranquil Scottish town of Dunblane.

Within minutes 15 children aged five and six had died in a hail of bullets. One died later in hospital. Their teacher, Gwen Mayor, a 44-year-old mother of two, died in the attack, reportedly while trying to shield her pupils. Two other teachers were also seriously injured while heroically trying to protect children. Hamilton turned one of his four handguns on himself and was found dead at the scene.

What happened next?

In the wake of the 1987 Hungerford massacre, in which one lone gunman killed 16 people, Britain introduced new legislation — the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 — making registration mandatory for owning shotguns and banning semi-automatic and pump-action weapons.

Within a year and a half of the Dunblane massacre, UK lawmakers had passed a ban on the private ownership of all handguns in mainland Britain, giving the country some of the toughest anti-gun legislation in the world. After both shootings there were firearm amnesties across the UK, resulting in the surrender of thousands of firearms and rounds of ammunition.

Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 10:42:49

It ain’t about dead kidz, it’s about globalists tightening the noose…

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 18:01:33

It’s for the children. That’s what Stalin and Mao said, too.

 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 10:49:05

And crime, to include gun crimes, have increased ever since.

And now British citizens have no means to defend themselves from the muslim invaders of their country.

Almost like a plan was in place…

 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 10:15:30

As a fiscal conservative I do not approve of Hillary.

also: Name one truly socialist country. Still waiting.

Comment by Red Pill
2015-12-22 10:20:17

Venezuela - How did that work out?

Next.

 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-22 11:28:59

“As a fiscal conservative”

As a fiscal conservative this must make you feel like you should be pounding on the door of a restroom at a Democratic debate screaming… WTF is taking so long Hillary!

Obama Family Vacations Surpass $100 Million

Posted about 5 months ago |

Washington, D.C., – For the sixth time in as many summers, the Obama family will vacation in Martha’s Vineyard this August. With this trip the first family will exceed $100 million in taxpayer dollars spent on vacation travel expenses, an unprecedented amount for any US President in history.

Be it another unnecessary family vacation, golf outing, or fundraising trip, no other president has mocked the American taxpayer to such extremes. Watchdog groups through the Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA), have obtained records detailing the first family’s travel expenses, and one look at these records show why the Obama Administration fought so hard to keep them sealed.

Since first taking office in 2009, the Obama family have acted like they won the lottery, not the presidency. The first family has treated Air Force One like their personal taxi, jet-setting around the world on taxpayer’s dime. This latest 15-day trip to Martha’s Vineyard alone will cost the American taxpayer an estimated two million dollars.

While the liberal media will point to George W. Bush’s number of vacations during his presidency, they conveniently leave out the fact that the majority of those vacations were spent on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, at minimal cost to taxpayers. When comparing the two, the Obama’s have outspent the Bush family on personal vacations by a staggering $71 million dollars. In fact, First Lady Michelle Obama has outspent the entire Bush family herself on lavish vacations to Africa, Spain, India, and China, just to name a few.

- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/obama-family-vacations-surpass-100-million/#sthash.Fxi4kBS5.dpuf

Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-22 16:42:06

And they are one one again right now, although they may be staying at their house over there that was purchased a couple of years ago.

 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 18:02:45

What exactly did you think was going to happen when you voted for an oligarch-owned bon vivant?

 
 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 10:25:46

The billionaire-backed conservative capitalist opposition won a large majority in Venezuela’s recent general election.

Socialism is a society where this large-scale private ownership of the big corporations, the banks and the land, is ended. This means that we can collectively and democratically plan how we use the world’s resources. In her book, Socialism in the 21st Century, Hannah explains how:

This would mean bringing all the big corporations, controlling around 80% of the economy, into democratic public ownership, under democratic working-class control.

Ordinary working class people - the vast majority of society - would then collectively own and control these wealth producing resources and would draw up a plan for their best use.

A socialist society would put people’s needs and interests, immediate and long-term, before profit. Hannah explains what this would mean below.

There are no countries where this takes place.

Comment by Ben Jones
2015-12-22 10:28:45

‘There are no countries where this takes place’

And your point is?

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 10:31:34

When does Lola ever have a point?

Comment by WPA
2015-12-22 11:01:59

Are you capable of posting without homophobic slurs?

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 11:27:09

And don’t forget…… Nothing accelerates the economy and raises the standard of living like falling housing prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.

Ventura, CA Housing Prices Crater 22% YoY

http://www.movoto.com/ventura-ca/market-trends/

 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 11:53:53

We need more debt to create more wealth . The more paper that is created the more happy people feel and go buy stuff.

Did you know our economy is now 70% consumer spending?

CRawl out of the basement!

I need happy pills.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 12:46:45

Data Poet data!

Brentwood(Los Angeles), CA Housing Prices Crater 10% YoY

http://www.zillow.com/brentwood-los-angeles-ca/home-values/

 
Comment by redmondjp
2015-12-22 16:43:17

Yes, data HA data! Show us the proof of those 70M empty homes!

 
Comment by Muggy
2015-12-22 16:44:41

“Brentwood. Always up to no good.”
The D R E

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 17:02:06

25 million excess empty houses my friend. We discussed it over and over again. You just don’t like that data any more than you like this data.

Redmond, OR Housing Prices Collapse 23% YoY

http://www.movoto.com/redmond-or/market-trends/

 
 
 
Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 10:42:30

If the democrats could assume absolute power - we could make this dream happen.

Even though they had obama in the white house, supermajority in the house and filibuster proof senate - it wasn’t enough to make the deam come true.

Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 12:07:55

Socialists want to share everything, until they get their hands on it.

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Comment by Muggy
2015-12-22 18:31:49

“Socialists want to share everything, until they get their hands on it.”

I think you mean trickle down…

 
 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 12:27:03

Socialism has never been tried. Stop calling Obama a socialist, it is embarrassing.

Comment by Blue Skye
2015-12-22 12:41:05

Socialism is a cloak made of wool that the hungry wolf wears to fool his prey. It is an affectation. Sure it’s been tried in numerous places.

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Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 13:09:59

Where? Was everyone middle class?

 
 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 12:48:51

Socialism and Lolaism are synonymous.

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Comment by butters
2015-12-22 12:56:56

Lolaism is crony capitalism.

 
Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 13:10:09

Lolaism, cronycrapitalism, socialism, communism….. it’s all a failure.

 
 
 
 
Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-22 15:51:27

“This would mean bringing all the big corporations, controlling around 80% of the economy, into democratic public ownership, under democratic working-class control.”

How is this suppose to come about?

Comment by Combotechie
2015-12-22 16:01:49

“Ordinary working class people - the vast majority of society - would then collectively own and control these wealth producing resources and would draw up a plan for their best use.”

How could you get “the majority of society” to agree on what is deemed the “best use” of “these wealth producing resources”?

 
 
 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 11:02:11

People need to default on their debt so they have more disposable income to boost stock and home prices.

Since the debt was basically bank credit created out of thin air nothing is really lost but we get a boost in the GDP from people spending on new stuff.

Comment by 2banana
2015-12-22 11:16:24

Anyone can default on debt. Except student loans.

But you roll the dice in bankruptcy court.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 11:57:20

I suspect most folks who are drowning in debt due to their own bad financial decisions are hoping and praying for a Clinton debt jubilee to make them whole again.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 12:03:31

The bottom line is that folks have allowed bankers to create bank credit out of nothing and then loan it out to people.They collect interest and call it work. Then when you default they act like they have a loss and come after your stuff. How did this come about? What powers enable this?

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 12:06:38

Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

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Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-22 13:00:18

“The bottom line is that folks have allowed bankers to create bank credit out of nothing and then loan it out to people.”

Yes! At high interest rates, sometimes adjusted higher and higher and higher.

“They collect interest and call it work.”

Not me; I collect interest and then call it a day.

“Then when you default they act like they have a loss and come after your stuff.”

The fun part.

“How did this come about?”

In my case it was done one dotted line at a time.

“What powers enable this?”

What, you want a list. How about starting your list out with “incredible stupidity”?

 
Comment by Mr. Banker
2015-12-22 14:00:52

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

 
 
 
 
 
Comment by WPA
2015-12-22 11:13:29

Wah wah, Trump is a crybaby.

“Donald J. Trump embraced the part of political victim on Monday, accusing Hillary Clinton of lying about him and demanding that she apologize for saying that terrorists were using him as a recruiting tool.”

This coming from, Trump, the winner of the Politifact 2015 “Lie of the Year” award for his lie about muslims celebrating on 9-11.

I loved the Clinton campaign’s response to Trump’s apology demand: HELL NO. Grandma’s a tough old bird, she’s not gonna take his crap. You go girl.

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 11:39:54

From your MT Skull to the Whitehouse, Mr. lives rent-free.

 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:42:51

Trump is brilliant with this comment. Immediately pounces on Hillary’s SECOND lie about a video.

 
 
Comment by frankie
2015-12-22 11:28:39

A family with a six-year-old child has been found living in “sub-standard conditions” in a garage with no heating.

The partitioned space, near Leicester, had no smoke alarms, no adequate fire escape, a broken shower and only one working plug socket.

The tenants told inspectors they were paying as much as £400 a month in rent.

The landlord has been banned from renting the space again unless “extensive work” is carried out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35158840

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 18:04:42

So now that family is out on the street instead of in the only shelter they could afford.

Thank you, central banks.

 
 
Comment by phony scandals
2015-12-22 11:53:19

“researchers need to know” ?

“complexity” of estimating future global temperatures.” ?

“contribute to atmospheric cooling.” ?

I thought this was all settled and we only had 8 minutes to save the planet and anyone who disagreed had to go to jail.

Climate change shock: Burning fossil fuels ‘COOLS planet’, says NASA

BURNING fossil fuels and cutting down trees causes global COOLING, a shock new NASA study has found.

By Jon Austin
PUBLISHED: Mon, Dec 21, 2015

Major theories about what causes temperatures to rise have been thrown into doubt after NASA found the Earth has cooled in areas of heavy industrialisation where more trees have been lost and more fossil fuel burning takes place.

Environmentalists have long argued the burning of fossil fuels in power stations and for other uses is responsible for global warming and predicted temperature increases because of the high levels of carbon dioxide produced - which causes the global greenhouse effect.

A NASA spokesman said: “To quantify climate change, researchers need to know the Transient Climate Response (TCR) and Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) of Earth.

The spokesman said it was “well known” that aerosols such as those emitted in volcanic eruptions and power stations, act to cool Earth, at least temporarily, by reflecting solar radiation away from the planet.

He added: “In a similar fashion, land use changes such as deforestation in northern latitudes result in bare land that increases reflected sunlight.”

Kate Marvel, a climatologist at GISS and the paper’s lead author, said the results showed the “complexity” of estimating future global temperatures.

She said: “Take sulfate aerosols, which are created from burning fossil fuels and contribute to atmospheric cooling.

“They are more or less confined to the northern hemisphere, where most of us live and emit pollution.

 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 12:05:16

Certain individuals who post here under multiple names have much in common with my SIL, including her enragement, her multiple personality disorder, and her love for Donald Trump.

Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 12:37:26

I bet she thinks Obama pulled the troops out of Iraq too soon too. Even Carly F. says that. duh!

Comment by butters
2015-12-22 12:55:52

Troops pulled out? You must be smokin’ somethin’

…………………
Pentagon: ‘We’re in combat’ in Iraq

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 11:08 AM ET, Fri October 30, 2015

Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 13:32:32

The U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. combat forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.[1] The pact required criminal charges for holding prisoners over 24 hours, and required a warrant for searches of homes and buildings that were not related to combat.[1] U.S. contractors working for U.S. forces would have been subject to Iraqi criminal law, while contractors working for the State Department and other U.S. agencies would retain their immunity. If U.S. forces committed still undecided “major premeditated felonies” while off-duty and off-base, they would have been subjected to an undecided procedures laid out by a joint U.S.-Iraq committee if the U.S. certified the forces were off-duty.

The agreement expired at midnight on December 31, 2011, even though the United States completed its final withdrawal of troops from Iraq on December 16, 2011. The symbolic ceremony in Baghdad officially “cased” (retired) the flag of U.S. forces in Iraq, according to army tradition

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Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 12:49:26

I predict an anti-warmonger vote in 2016.

Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 18:05:47

Not going to happen. The 95% who voted for Obama, McCain, and Romney are not going to suddenly grow a brain in 2016.

 
 
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-12-22 13:06:57

You might be a Republican if you got all butthurt over 4 needless deaths in Benghazi demanding answers & accountability, but turned a blind eye to Bush sending 4000+ Americans to their needless deaths in Iraq. Or if you don’t want gun owners judged by the actions of a few but you turn around & judge all Muslims by the actions of a few and you just cut $79 mill out of budget protecting embassies.

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 13:12:02

Data Lola…. stick with the data.

Seattle, WA Housing Prices Crater 6% YoY

http://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa-98199/home-values/

Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 16:04:11

HOMOPHOBE

Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 16:59:54

Stay on topic Poet.

Carmichael, CA Housing Prices Crater 5% YoY

http://www.zillow.com/carmichael-ca/home-values/

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Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 18:50:54

TRUMP

 
 
Comment by 10-4GoodBuddy!
2015-12-22 17:45:53

There is no evidence Lola prefers one sex or another. Dressing like a woman still allows you to choose either.

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 13:17:58

Ebola Lola loves to get mega-trolla’ed.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 13:22:29

market melts up and low volume today as usual.

Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 14:14:17

I’ve noticed the HBB is a pretty good indicator for sizable market moves. Up moves correlate strongly with under 200 posts; big selloffs with over 300 posts.

Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 14:50:17

it seems like when there is heavy volume its to the downside.

Market breadth is awful.

It seems like the indexes have become symbolic.

Underneath a lot of negative happening.

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Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 16:22:44

Marketwatch dot com
This ‘smart money’ indicator nailed the dot-com bust, and it’s even more bearish now
By Shawn Langlois
Published: Dec 22, 2015 12:51 p.m. ET
Volume in this trade has dried up, but the signal is still accurate

“Smart money” is betting against the bulls in a huge way.

When it comes to investing in the stock market, the crowd is often wrong at extremes. A contrarian’s delight. This, according to Dana Lyons of J. Lyons Fund Management, is not one of those times. At least, if history is any indication. Of course, that’s a pretty big “if.”

Nevertheless, it’s worth noting what’s going on with the traders of S&P 100 options (OEX, +0.83%).

“Historically, this group has been on the right side of the market more times than not when their collective options position is at an extreme,” Lyons wrote in a blog post in which he pointed out that OEX traders have never held more put options relative to call options.

By the numbers, Friday’s readings marked the first time in history with more than three put options for every call. The record didn’t last long. On Monday, it rose to 3.3 options for every call.

This chart shows just how rare these kinds of extremes have been. To put it in perspective, between 1999 and 2014, the reading broke past two puts for every call just 15 days.

 
Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 17:09:07

People buying are really stretching things, very greedy.

It is just amazing this whole scheme has held together this long.

As for options you are really betting on being a good timer of the markets.

I have done some mock portfolios and basically lost money on bearish options. I dont like being locked into a time frame.

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 18:07:15

That’s kind of like saying the trees waving make the wind blow.

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Comment by Mafia Blocks
2015-12-22 16:02:50

It’s all lol@Lola around here anymore. LOL. :mrgreen:

 
 
Comment by Professor Bear
2015-12-22 16:33:19

Marketwatch dot com
What the big money is betting on for 2016
By Brett Arends
Published: Dec 16, 2015 5:07 a.m. ET

Global fund managers are bullish on Europe and Japan, and bearish on commodities and emerging markets

The men and women managing the world’s biggest investment funds are already positioning their portfolios for next year.

What do they see?

They’re placing big bets on rising stock markets in Europe and Japan. They also see a good year ahead for bank stocks, and the shares of companies that benefit from discretionary consumer spending.

Meanwhile, they think bonds, oil prices, commodity stocks and emerging markets will keep falling.

 
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Comment by azdude
2015-12-22 18:53:35

it was the weather ray

 
 
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2015-12-22 18:43:00

Trump evicerates oligopoly presstitute George Stephanopolis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRTCxMAqC4

Comment by Bubblebot
2015-12-22 23:11:01

“Trump evicerates oligopoly presstitute George Stephanopolis.”

Wow.That was awesome. I haven’t seen anything like that on MSM
for a long time.

 
 
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2015-12-22 18:50:51
 
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2015-12-22 19:09:21
Comment by The Central Scrutinizer
2015-12-22 21:17:55

Hungry Hungry Homeless - a Milton Bradley Game!

 
 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 20:54:02

the Apples in Stereo — Rocket Pad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRFbms-CEhY

I saw them live some time ago at the Grog Shop, in Cleveland Heights, OH, on the strip right there in Conventry. Went back for the first time in a while last 4th of July and Cleveland and NE Ohio are pretty alright…

Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 21:15:53

the Apples in Stereo — Strawberryfire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpSbvtBstaM

When I walked into A’s place last week, she had a copy of Keith Richards’ autobiography on her bookshelf, and a stack of vinyl records. I knew it was gonna be alright…

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 21:22:44

Music From the Unrealized Film Script Dusk at Cubist Castle - The Olivia Tremor Control (full album):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjpk9e_vB8Y

 
Comment by Goon
2015-12-22 21:28:51

the Beastie Boys — Shadrach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rZbCa2Ixk

Sh*t’s been getting too real lately, time to peace out for a while…

“Smoking and drinking on a Tuesday night”

Comment by rms
2015-12-23 02:40:48

Time for a 420 friendly tinder hook-up.

 
 
 
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