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The odds makers in Vegas say it’s gonna be …
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Much like a Super Bowl prediction for a year from now, the odds this far out are meaningless. Also there isn’t enough data or any really similar data to Trump, essentially a third party candidate inside one of the major parties. But, once again I’ll say it, I’m more than happy to see the final be a Trump v. Hillary. I think Trump wins that in a walk, but even that race alone is a win for me. It says F the Establishment and F the racist everyone is a bigot pimps.
“I think Trump wins that in a walk, but even that race alone is a win for me.”
Delusional thinking seldom wins elections.
“Delusional thinking seldom wins elections.”
Wait, WHAT??? What about the last four or five elections?
Misconstruing my point won’t magically turn 51% of the U.S. electorate into angry old white males for Trump.
You said delusional thinking seldom wins elections. I say it does, considering the presidents we’ve had over the past few decades, especially the last two.
won’t magically turn 51% of the U.S. electorate into angry old white males for Trump ??
Spot on….Trump would not carry one state….
For some here, Vegas offers you a bet…Put your money down on Trump if your so convinced…You get $9.00 for every $2.00 you bet…Here is your chance to hit the lotto…Bet the whole ranch….
Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, Sir, and I never slice …
Btw your prediction track record ain’t so great Turkey Trot.
Actually the majority of eligible voters do not vote. When the majority votes none of the above for any political office, that office should be vacant until the next election.
In 2014 I voted NOTA for all candidates in my district in Arizona. I and 70% of the peole who did not vote, were cheated.
Not voting can be interpreted as voting for none of the above or just as apathy. Can’t really tell the difference. If you want to register a NOTA vote, vote for a 3rd party candidate. Any 3rd party candidate will do.
it’s gonna be ??
Barring some big event, thats the way I would bet….If the election were held today, it would be a sweep for her…I believe woman will come out in force to vote for her including some of the wives of evangelical men…
….evangelical me let their women vote????
lol…never thought about it that way JM…
Blinded by racial politics. Fear the blue collars Trump is bringing back, a la Reagan. Just like the establishment and MSM types who can’t see it, keep pimping PC and open borders with the Prof. Bring back Bubba as abuser in chief, and let the PC reign!
, a la Reagan.
You do recognize that Reagan was a disaster, right? Skyrocketed the national debt and turned us back to gunboat imperialism with a massive MIC.
Who are blinded by racial politics? The wives of evangelical men?
Please urge Billary to campaign on the “Reagan was a disaster” platform.
“I believe woman will come out…”
OK. All the women in my family have been voting for as long as I’ve been alive. If this is the single issue victory hoped for, it leaves me wondering what will be on the agenda for the next decade.
agenda for the next decade
First black president - Success
First woman president - 2017 - 2024
First hispanic president - 2025 - 2032
First gay president -2033 - 2040
First transgender president - 2041 - 2048
First joint islam/christian theocratic president - 49 - 56
If this is the single issue victory hoped for ??
Single issue ??…Its not about the woman…Its about the men…Just listen to humilitating Trump the so called leader in the REP race…Add in Rush…Savage…Hanity….Riely…Beck…Livene and many more…You reap what you sow…
Like Eugene Robinson suggested; The cat is out of the bag and its hungry….
Haters gonna hate, but Trump loves you all.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMDOGKUUkAAEZCf.jpg
dave,
I don’t listen to any of those. It’s bad for your brain.
I don’t listen to any of those. It’s bad for your brain ??
No T/V or radio ?? Well, Kudos to you because although I do not watch or listen to most I listen to Bloomberg and sports a lot so I can’t help but be exposed to that crap…And your right, it is bad for your brain…
Bloomberg? The feds latest mouthpiece.
No wonder Donk-o-nomics is your favorite.
Trump. A superb statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
What happened to the Santa Claus rally?
time to wheel out draghi or abe?
That graphic is worse than Trump’s hair.
I can’t knock the guy. I’ve been on Christmas break from Trump University, flying back to school now on Trump Airlines.
Everything the man touches turns to gold.
Are you working on a PhD at Trump U?
I wish. I’ve still got to get past Hair Architecture and Maintenance 202 before I can get my undergrad degree.
That’s the weed-out course.
10 billion dollars. That dog won’t hunt.
It’s too bad that you can’t enjoy a Trump Steak for dinner this evening.
What happened: Trump launched his name-brand steaks specifically for Sharper Image (and naturally graced the cover of the Sharper Image catalogue) in 2007. They have since been discontinued.
The prices ranged from $199 for a pack of 12 steak burgers and four steaks, all the way up to $999 for a selection of 16 top cuts.
Bonus: The Trump Steakhouse in Las Vegas was briefly shut down following 51 health code violations, including expired yogurt and five-month old duck.
What Trump said about his namesake meats: “When it comes to great steaks, I’ve just raised the stakes! … Trump Steaks are the world’s greatest steaks … Treat yourself to the very, very best life has to offer … One bite and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. And believe me: I understand steaks. They’re my favorite food.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-donald-trump-businesses-that-no-longer-exist-204923129.html
From a LIEberals empty skull…….. directly to the WhiteHouse….
Huffington Post provides a narrative titled “this is what it’s like to have a vagina on the internet”
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8808742
Oh, GAWD, is there no shame? There are days that I almost pray for a solar EMP, a Carrington event to knock us back to the 19th century.
There’s a link to the author’s Twitter handle at the bottom of the article, maybe you should follow her and learn something
What am I supposed to learn? Wasn’t there some song about “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp?”
The ‘net is a tough place. I didn’t realize how dark it really was until I briefly took a look at Reddit. Whew. We’re pretty sheltered here on the HBB.
Whaaaaaaaaat? Reddit is a playground. Go to 4chan.
Oops, thanks for your comment, because I realize that what I actually meant to say was 4chan. You’re right, Reddit is child’s play. 4chan, now that’s DARK. Whew.
From the article;
And that a world in which we disregard the humanity of the very people we call our girlfriends, sisters, wives, and mothers away from the screen would be a very sad place…
“our girlfriends, sisters, wives, and mothers…”
It’s difficult to make others identify with you the way you want them to.
Did you read the article ??
Yes, but not the comments.
Well what I took away from that quote was that on the internet some will say such disparaging and hateful things towards this woman but don’t think twice about the fact that they also have sisters, mothers and wives…
Yeah, I understand. So next time some troll on this blog snarks at you or me, let’s remind them that they have brothers and sons and fathers and boyfriends.
Her taint looks great in yoga pants, but what I really want to know is whether she’s a renter or owner?
Huffington Post provides a narrative titled “this is what it’s like to have a vagina on the internet”
She’d last ten minutes as a barmaid or waitress. Plenty of people have no filter IRL. Also, barring a stalker, she’s not in danger of being physically hurt, along with her feelings (sniff).
“So since growth is all but impossible, corporations have resorted to financial engineering to keep the wagon rolling – all courtesy of the Fed, with near-zero short- and long-term interest rates.
They’ve had two options: either increase stock buybacks to leverage their stagnant earnings with rising earnings-per-share on fewer shares, or increase dividends to compete with lower and lower yielding bonds (also courtesy of the Fed). And they’ve been milking both options for all they’re worth!”
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-deadly-truth-about-the-great-boom-and-this-recovery/
The great thing about Lucy was that she was continually able to convince Charlie Brown to take another try at kicking that football.
I would be very curious to see a chart of s&p earnings over the past 5 years. No not earnings / share. straight up earnings.
here, this might be helpful
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/spearn.htm
that appears to be / share
Salon dot com provides a Trump narrative and bashes whitey:
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/31/wow_the_republicans_really_dont_understand_how_they_created_donald_trump/
Like Obi Wan Kenobi, attempts to bash and knock down Trump like this only make him stronger.
“That is because Brazil’s problem is not entirely of Brazil, at least not in the way most people think. The country has a “dollar” problem and unless that gets solved there is nothing that can be done. As noted with Russia, the problem was locked in place the moment Brazil accepted the “dollar” and undertook its synthetic short decades ago; it was a deal with the devil, providing artificial and short-term what looked like prosperity but in the end terribly fleeting and ultimately unsound. The only choices now are to sit back and hope the eurodollar system is somehow, miraculously rebuilt on its own, of its own, or to get busy with realigning and re-orienting the economy and financial system to a far different paradigm where credit-based expansion (explosion) in the world’s reserve currency no longer drives artificial and speculative “growth.” Brazil’s economy is already forcing that latter option, and the results so far are frightening in how far it might have to go.”
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-inescapable-trap-of-the-dollar-short-brazil-edition/
New York Times real journalists provide a disease narrative on Brazil:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/world/americas/alarm-spreads-in-brazil-over-a-virus-and-a-surge-in-malformed-infants.html
The athletes in the water events at the Rio olympics will be swimming in garbage and feces
Disease, pollution, poverty, sounds like a fundamental transformation
“That is because Brazil’s problem”
Where is Brazil’s problem, he hasn’t posted here lately.
Hahahhaaha, the mystery deepens. Can’t imagine he voluntarily missed the last few days.
Salon dot com provides a Trump narrative, reminds you how racist you are:
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/31/we_werent_ready_for_a_black_president_race_hate_donald_trump_guns_fox_news_terror_and_our_tragic_american_condition/
We don’t and didn’t have a black president. Obama is mixed race. And this shows how racist Salon.com is, because they’re abiding by the old Jim Crow one-drop rule. Real nice.
New York Times real journalists provide a Trump narrative that you are a racist:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/upshot/donald-trumps-strongest-supporters-a-certain-kind-of-democrat.html?_r=0
New York Times provides a warmist narrative:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/science/climate-chaos-across-the-map.html
The reason they’re called your betters is because they’re better than you
Washington Post real journalists add to the narrative:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/freakish-weather-runs-from-top-of-the-world-to-the-bottom/2015/12/30/61203efa-af2c-11e5-b711-1998289ffcea_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_northpole-846pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
“Chaos” and “cataclysms” make all this warmism sound really scary
All in on nuclear power or not serious.
Because no form of pollution is more toxic or long lasting!
I suppose polluting the entire planet’s atmosphere might be considered more toxic?
Would you choose to breath in a little H2O or CO2, or nuclear? Which is worse in a few PPM?
Somewhere, ABQ Dan is sobbing disconsolately….
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/12/29/what-do-global-banks-know-about-chinese-banks/
Washington Post real journalists provide a narrative confirming Jeb! is a looser:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/30/bush-canceling-ad-buys-in-iowa-and-south-carolina/
Aw come on… Barbara really wants that hat trick.
Barbara was the one who wisely said that America has had enough Bush presidencies for a while.
wisely said that America has had enough Bush presidencies for a while ??
Yes she did…A wise woman indeed…Her message was much deeper than that statement but was blown off…What she was saying is Jr. so f#@ked up this country that Jeb (and the Bush family) are going to get humiliated if Jeb steps in…Sr. & Jr over the sage advise of Barbara likely encouraged Jeb to go for it…So, 57 million spent gets you 3% of the polling…At the other end of the spectrum, spending zero dollars gets you the lead….
It sounds like you’re making a lot of assumptions based on a few words that she uttered.
lot of assumptions based on a few words that she uttered
Sure its an assumption but why would she say it at all if there were not some underlying reasoning…I think its plausible…We surely did not hear Sr. or Jr. come out and agree with here did we…And Jeb obviously disagreed…
The Oligopoly has switched its support to it’s standby puppet, Rubio. So the Jeb half of HillaryJeb is effectively washed up since he has been overwhelmingly repudiated by the Republican base. However, since the Democrat base is as vile, loathsome, and debased as Hillary, she can count on them voting en bloc for more of the crony capitalist status quo.
I haven’t had time to do any posts because I have a sick cat. But just in the last hour it looks like he’s going to be OK. I should be back on schedule shortly.
back on schedule
The holiday hours at the Southern Poverty Law Center troll farm have really thrown a wrench into this place lately, I can’t handle all these partially scripted narratives, I just don’t know what to believe anymore…
Good luck with the sick cat
“Good luck with the sick cat”
+1
Same here.
+1.
I hope your cat gets well. I had a sick cat once, truly a pathetic creature, spent hundreds of dollars on him at the vet.
Hope all is well with your little friend Ben…
I love cats but my cat would barf up a mess every couple of weeks and I could not handle that. Had to donate $600 to a no kill shelter and give the cat to it. Enjoyed watching the cat race around and sometimes jump up a wall to something I could not see. Cats in my parents’ household were outdoor cats, in Fresno where the night temps could get into the 20s in January. My dad grew up on a farm in Ohio and they had lots of cats - all outside. They earned their way by catching mice. They are smart enough to find warm places.
“The ruble crashed anyway, because if there is one thing the “dollar short” cannot abide it is danger in the underlying collateral. In that respect, the ruble trades with oil not just in what that means for the Russian economy, which is disturbing anyway, but more so under the purview of wholesale finance – rolling over the “dollar” short becomes more and more difficult and costly. With oil dropping again recently, the ruble is once more at a new and devastating low.
The Bloomberg article reporting the trouble at VEB places blame on “Western sanctions” and they may have something of that effect, however, given the ruble, in my judgement, the far larger problem is the “dollar.” It is the same abject lesson that is being repeated now all across Asia and the EM’s, particularly Brazil and China. Each of these countries came to the “dollar” table thinking they had “bought” enough insulation in forex reserves to play what is truly a dangerous game of eurodollar finance in wholesale terms. And time and again in the past year we see quite the opposite; that bank and forex “reserves” of dollars and whatever else have been utterly useless in protecting or even dampening volatility and disorder (the Chinese, who have the largest pile of believed dollar and forex reserves in human history still regularly suffer the great disruption of “dollar” irregularity).
Because of those believed-resources, central banks have been engaging exactly how they are “supposed to”; often resorting to the same wholesale means (forwards, swaps, repos, etc.) that most often present the very channels of disarray. And in each instance, China and Brazil most visibly, they find themselves in wholesale quicksand; the more they struggle, the deeper they sink. If VEB heads toward full-blown bailout and perhaps eventual displacement from the eurodollar entirely, we can add Russia to that dubious list.”
http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2015/12/30/the-inescapable-trap-of-the-dollar-short-is-the-short-russian-edition/
I recently received this email:
I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. So I asked her, “If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?” She replied, “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.” Her parents proudly beamed. “Wow…what a worthy goal,” I told her. “But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. Tell you what – you can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house. How about doing something wonderful like that?” She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?” I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.” Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.
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The girl did need some follow up treatment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZazSFEHfg8 - 374k -
I guess removing Liberalism can be difficult.
“Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder,”
Michael Savage
“Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
It’s a larger group than that, which includes liberals.
Collectivism is a mental disorder.
Racists and those who think their sky wizard’s $hit don’t stink but all other sky wizard’s $hit stinks, are collectivists.
No work, no eat.
Guess gramma’s gonna starve.
Is grandmaw able bodied?
She’s not completely disabled, but she’s not healthy enough to work 40 hours a week.
As you say, no work, no eat.
I suspect that 2016 will be the year when Yellen the Felon and her gang of counterfeiters and racketeers at the Fed will finally be exposed as fraudsters and criminals for all to see.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-31/yellen-you-have-problem-rate-hike-corridor-just-broke
Indonesia Inc faces tough time rolling over debts:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/217ddeb4-68c9-11e5-97d0-1456a776a4f5.html#axzz3vuQu1zNV
I think what we see playing out here is that a lot of foreign countries borrowed a lot of dollars.
Now when its time to start repaying they are hurting cause of the strong dollar and a even a weak currency themselves. The cost to rollover the debt is increasing. they seem to be trapped.
Like they have said when you borrow in dollars you are basically shorting the dollar. When the dollar rises and you go to rollover debt you are screwed!
Debt leads to ruin, for a country or for a person.
Not when you’re a banker or Wall Street plutocrat and you can count on 95% of the electorate to bend over on demand by voting for pro-bailout candidates.
Los Angeles Times real journalists provide a Trump narrative, confirm you are a racist:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-prez-white-people-responsibility-trump-20151230-story.html
What do Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington DC all have in common?
They’re all better than you, that’s why they’re your betters
Dexter Thomas does have a cool lid.
“White people, come get your boy.”
What do Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington DC all have in common?
They’re all better than you, that’s why they’re your betters
But at least Denver is better than Ohio, right?
That’s your narrative, not mine
I was back there for a week in July and downtown Cleveland has really improved, I wouldn’t rule out moving back there and paying cash for a house
and downtown Cleveland has really improved ??
I also heard the same thing…
The atrium and new wing at left at the Cleveland Museum of Art:
http://www.picpaste.com/iYwG2GMg.jpg
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleeeevland Rocks!!!
“Cleveland Rocks” is a rock song by Ian Hunter from his 1979 album You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic. The song is seen as a de facto anthem in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] The song was played every Friday at 6:00 PM on Cleveland radio station WMMS beginning in 1979 and is used as a victory song for the city’s sports teams. In recognition of “Cleveland Rocks”.
Cleveland does rock. I’ve probably seen more live shows there than in any other city. Pink Floyd at old Cleveland Stadium, David Bowie and the Grateful Dead at Richfield Coliseum, George Clinton & P-Funk Allstars at the Agora, Blossom Music Center, Grog Shop, Peabody’s, Nautica in the Flats, Gund Arena (I refuse to call it “The Q”), CSU Convocation Center, Euclid Tavern, Phantasy Nightclub, the Odeon, Beachland Ballroom, and all the venues on Main St in Akron and Water St in Kent.
The only person whining about ‘betters’ is you.
“The only person whining about ‘betters’ is you.”
au contraire mon frère
“Dr. Ben Carson is the rare black American, free from The Liberal Thought Plantation, unwillingly to dance for his liberal betters or apologize for America while portraying himself as a sufferer.”
The Liberal Media Lynching of Dr. Ben Carson
by Jerome Hudson
9 Oct 2015
We are all witnessing an elaborate liberal media lynching of Dr. Ben Carson. The former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon turned leading black Republican presidential candidate is just the latest “uppity negro” (Justice Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain) to defy the expectations of his white liberal mainstream media masters by deciding to ditch the political hymnal from which most blacks read and think for himself.
No matter that before he was surgically splitting brains, Ben Carson was being raised in poverty by a single mother. The disgusting, and yet prevailing, wisdom among far too many Americans is that if black people grow up impoverished like Ben Carson did, their unfortunate fate is a fixture of an America that is, always was, and always will be a devoutly racist place. And if you are black in America, you should never expect to achieve any meaningful socioeconomic success–like becoming a brilliant brain surgeon–simply because of the barriers American racism persistently permit.
Of course, this is fallacy.
More pointedly, Ben Carson rebukes that bitter ethos and the victim-focused racial identity it breeds. And now that–as a national figure running for president–he has chosen not to be a mindless minstrel puppet, tap dancing, performing, like a good boy, for his white liberal media gatekeepers, he is being whipped, strung up, and left to hang.
For all the Left’s pseudo-social science drivel about how white America “otherizes” blacks–mercilessly demeaning their humanity, transforming them to subhuman status–one would assume there would be more influential African Americans defending Ben Carson from abhorrent attacks like being called a “coon” by an Ivy League professor.
I dare you to imagine a GQ headline that read, “Fuck Barack Obama.”
You can’t.
Why is it this way? Carson’s political flogging, if you will, serves two purposes.
First, it serves as a warning to blacks, Hispanics, women, and any other member of the Liberal Victimhood Class System that should you ever decide to leave The Liberal Thought Plantation, we’ll sic the dogs on you!
Second, the mainstream media is a 24-hour propaganda mill charged with protecting a false narrative about American life for blacks, Hispanics, and women in 2015 to benefit the Democratic party. There are Cardinals of Faith that liberal media elites must propagate and protect. And Ben Carson–his life story, his politically incorrect character–is a threat and is anathema to the preferred progressive orthodoxy.
Dr. Ben Carson is the rare black American, free from The Liberal Thought Plantation, unwillingly to dance for his liberal betters or apologize for America while portraying himself as a sufferer.
Dr. Ben Carson is an existential threat to the Democrat Media Complex. For this, he must be destroyed.
Looks like the waves of Votes-for-Entitlements lifetime Democrat voters flocking into Los Angeles are already making their presence felt.
http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-crime-stats-20151230-story.html
Engineer finds examples of ‘horrific’ construction in tornado wreckage.
An engineer who inspected damage across North Texas after Saturday’s deadly tornadoes says he saw “rampant irresponsibleness” in the way many homes and buildings were constructed.
Free standing walls, not attached to the foundation…yikes! I think most of the homes in that area were built in the 80’s through current.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/20151230-engineer-finds-examples-of-horrific-construction-in-tornado-wreckage.ece
Someone “tried to nail a steel bottom plate to the concrete,” he said. “There was no connection [between] walls, there was no connection at the roof, and it was simply nailed to the concrete foundation. the school was built in 2008. ???
Wow….Where the hell are the city inspectors on this ?? Its a school for god’s sake….
“City inspectors” don’t know what they’re looking at. Much the same as “appraisers” guessing at the value.
It’s more likely the district opted out of the engineers services during construction as though it were an optional service.
The city inspectors I’ve dealt with here in Santa Clara definitely know their stuff.
I’ll wager there isn’t a single one there that understands bolt plans-rcsc specs for bolting ss connections, geotechnical, tee, corner, skin and temperature reinforcing, etc. Hell, I bet they’ve never seen a reinforcing shop drawing let alone understand one.
You must be on of those betters that the Goon likes to talk about.
Falling housing prices SnowFlake…… falling housing prices.
Sherman Oaks, CA Housing Prices Crater 12% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/sherman-oaks-los-angeles-ca/home-values/
Big government interference…
So Bush certainly wasn’t the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he’s created a lot of disincentive. He’s created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It’s almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
It’s almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Now they’re gonna demand we connect the school walls to the roof.
It’s almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Trump can be idiotic at times. It’s very easy to do things in this country.
New Year’s Surprise: Obama Regulation To Give Work-Permits To Foreign College-Graduates
note - Obama had to go it alone to get something done. Paul Ryan approves. Look for more.
Bread and circus bubble?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/sports/ncaafootball/alabama-crimson-tide-football-marketing.html?_r=0
FoxNewsHate provides a narrative for the cultural relativists:
“Female genital mutilation is practiced in more than half of African countries. It entails the complete or partial removal of the external genitalia of women and girls for nonmedical reasons.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12/31/gambia-parliament-bans-female-genital-mutilation-sets-strict-penalties-for.html?intcmp=hplnws
Barbaric mutilation of male genitalia is a common practice in the third world called USSA.
Faux news will remain silent on this.
You prefer the Anteater look? Ewwww.
When my daughter was in the peace corps, in Africa, she witnessed two of these circumcisions.
One of the two was more of a ritual circumcision rather than a complete one. The other one was complete.
BTW, it was a woman thing; the men were not involved.
William Kristol provides a neocon narrative, bashes Trump, praises Cheney:
“A conservative movement that would turn to Donald Trump out of frustration or exasperation or desperation or titillation would be a movement lacking in self-respect. A political party—a party with a respectable lineage, the party of Lincoln and Grant, of Theodore Roosevelt and Coolidge, of Reagan and Cheney—that would turn to the likes of Donald Trump would be a party lacking in self-respect.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/happy-new-year/article/2000378
Kristol sounds worried that the GOP base might actually elect representatives who act on behalf of their constituents instead of being neocons/unregistered foreign agents for Israel’s Likud Party.
Washington Times (yes, the Moonie rag) provides a neocon narrative, this filed under their subsection titled “Threat Assessment”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/30/l-todd-wood-iran-continues-taunt-us/
Rubio/Cotton 2016 and you’ll get the boots on the ground you were promised
Interesting visual here - Israel way outsizes them all……
Happy New Year, Saluti, Prospero Nuovo Anno, Feliz Nuevo Ano (sanz the curvy line above the ‘n’).
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/12/countries-scaled-to-the-economic-aid-received-from-the-us/
Straight from conservative headquarters at National Affairs:
“The Republican position — either avowed ignorance or conspiracy theorizing — is ultimately unsustainable, but some still cling to it because they believe that accepting the premise that some climate change is occurring as a result of human action means accepting the conclusions of the most rabid left-wing climate activists. They fear, at least implicitly, that the politics of climate change is just a twisted road with a known destination: supporting new carbon taxes, a cap-and-trade system, or other statist means of energy rationing, and in the process ceding yet another key economic sector to government control. Conservatives seem to be on the horns of a dilemma: They will have to either continue to ignore real scientific findings or accept higher taxes, energy rationing, and increased regulation.”
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/conservatives-and-climate-change
Our best hope will continue to be those who do not blindly swallow the pill of centrally planned political dogma.
Your arguments and their believers are rapidly melting away.
Children aren’t going to know what snow is.
The planet’s sea level is destined to rise over fifteen feet over the next fifty years.
Your efforts at science denial are in endgame, combo/Blue.
Time to switch to the next stage: “Sure it’s happening, but it’s too expensive to stop. They just want to tax you.”
Oddie, I am in the science community. You are not. You are a political hack with no science ken whatsoever. Noise without substance.
Latest Star Wars movie = B-
not too original, bad acting from Ford and Fisher. I guess you need to be 12 yrs old to love it.
Agree - as one who saw the original Star Wars on a 70 mm screen - this was from a cinematic standpoint very poor and the story line - well - I give it an F - nothing different - just a death star on a bigger scale.
Not worth the coin I dropped to see it.
I read it was in homage to the past SW’s. In that case, that is all it was. Disney sure hyped it well. They get a A for marketing.
A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for crony capitalism.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-31/bill-clinton-made-8-million-speeches-companies-matters-pending-hillarys-state-dept
Why the Fed hates gold.
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/why-the-government-hates-gold/
The government has that big stockpile at Fort Knox. If the federal government was capable of feeling an emotion and it hated gold, one would think that it would sell the gold for something that it preferred.
The gold at Ft. Knox hasn’t been audited since 1953, but I’m sure it’s all present and accounted for.
http://www.sbcgold.com/blog/does-fort-knox-really-have-gold-or-is-it-just-another-conspiracy/
The really naive people are the ones who purchase gold coins minted by the US government. Those coins are probably never audited and we have no way to know whether many of them might only be half gold.
can anyone here produce a chart or any kind of data showing the actual earnings for the s&p 500 over the past 5 years?
I’m looking for the actual dollar amount that the companies made after the normal costs of business. Not doctored numbers like earnings per share that is manipulated by companies borrowing money to buy shares. Basically I want operating cash flow.
We are constantly fed bs numbers that include / share and ex items numbers.
I want to prove that there really is no earnings growth over the past 5 years for the S&P 500. It is all financial engineering.
You’ve got to learn how to analyze a financial statement. Get good enough at it and you can be the next Warren Buffett.
thats true because most folks dont have a clue and just listen to what they hear on tv.
“Earlier this week, Business Insider’s Sam Ro noted that earnings had been ugly across the board, highlighting that operational profits — which exclude the one-time items and write-offs that weigh on most companies’ quarterly earnings — look about as ugly as they ever have outside a recession.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-recession-2015-9
How many more foreign wage slaves will the Oligopoly import this year to displace more costly American workers? And why do labor unions keep screwing over American workers by supporting crony capitalists like Hillary Clinton that are aiding and abetting such open-borders policies?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/all-you-americans-are-fired#.hx2BNYj0ap
Trump is a fascist.
Here is some data for y/y operating income from for the s&p 500. For the 3rd qtr it is down 15.6% year over year.
http://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_growth_rates.php?oper&sp5
All this earnings / share nonsense showing growth is mainly from extraordinary items and reducing the float or share count. financial engineering at its finest.
Have the Pineapples ordered their 2016 Kim Jong Un calendars yet?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-31/year-fabulous-life-kim-jong-un-pictures
Merkel voters reaping what they sowed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35208669
Diversity is our strength.
http://www.businessinsider.com/major-cities-cancel-new-years-eve-celebrations-2015-12
2016 might be the year when the SJWs finally get put back in their box.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/12/31/coming-2016-all-out-war-on-so-called-social-justice/#disqus_thread
There’s a nice incoherent rant about not much in particular. Apparently there are people who post things on the internet that include misspelled words.
“Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder”
Michael Savage
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)56%
supported an amnesty-and-cheap-labor bill in 2014, and he sneaked a new rule into the December 2016 omnibus bill that allows companies to bring in at least 100,000 extra foreign workers for jobs sought by 100,000 blue-collar Americans. Ryan defended his pink-slip plan, while he and other GOP and Democratic leaders also rejected proposed amendments to the omnibus by pro-American legislators that would have constricted Obama’s legal ability to add more foreign workers to the U.S. economy.
An airline that hires attractive stewardesses? The HBB’s resident progressives just blew their collective gaskets.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-the-airline-that-feminism-forgot-a6792006.html
What ruinous misadventures will the neocons get us into in 2016?
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/why-wwiii-is-on-the-horizon-the-prospect-of-armegeddon-will-continue-to-rise_12312015
You might want to read the neocon playbook for 2016, since you and your children will be paying for it.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
Bitcoin and cash were the winners in 2015
http://bitcoinist.net/best-investments-of-2015-the-winners-are-bitcoin-and-cash/
In 2016 it will be Bitcoin, the next two top crypto currencies then stocks.
Bitcoins LOL!
Maybe more of this in 2016 as well:
“The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza with the fraudulent sale of unlicensed securities and the operation of a Ponzi scheme.”
http://www.coindesk.com/gaw-faces-ponzi-scheme-charges-from-sec/