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Those yellowfins are some badass patrol boats. They run them in the bays/intercoastal too. If I was going to take the financial hit to be in law enforcement that's the job I would want.
Well then a trip to Yemen is in order.
Those yellowfins are some badass patrol boats. They run them in the bays/intercoastal too. If I was going to take the financial hit to be in law enforcement that's the job I would want.
Why is the desire for secure borders considered xenophobic?
you got it backwards, naturally.
Xenophobes, nativists, jingoists, white supremacists, gun fellators obsess about securing the MX border because that plays into, justifies their prejudice.
Well, if the Canadians start coming down here in droves, we'd probably be more concerned about that border, too.
yeah, there's LOTS of non-Euro-Americans in CA.
Architect Of George W. Bush’s Tax Cuts For The Rich Advising Jeb Bush On Inequality
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is promising to chart a new course focused on addressing economic inequality, as he nears a long-expected announcement that he’s running for president in 2016. At the same time, he is bringing on more policy advisersfrom his family’s administrations who supported policies that contributed to that wealth gap.
Since expressing interest in the nation’s highest office, Jeb Bush has repeatedly lamentedthe growing gap between the wealthy and the poor and vowed to make closing that gap a central part of his campaign.
“We’re moving to a world that is sticky in the ends, where it’s harder for people in poverty to move up and where the rich are doing really well and the middle is getting squeezed,” he said in a recent speech.
The mainstream media has cited such statements as signs Bush “intends to position himself on economic issues like income inequality in a way that diverges from the approach traditionally championed by the Republican Party.”
But this week, Jeb Bush’s team brought on economist Glenn Hubbard — the lead architect of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy. Hubbard also crafted Mitt Romney’s economic plan, which involved de-regulating Wall Street, further slashing taxes on corporations and the wealthy and turn Medicaid into a block grant program in which states could “experiment” with health funding for the poor. He claimed the plan would create 12 million jobs in Romney’s first term alone.
When Romney failed to win the presidency, Hubbard went on to advocate on behalf of subprime loan companies that were illegally defrauding customers and misleading investors. Countrywide Loans paid him $1,200 an hour to testify on their behalf.
Hubbard, like Jeb Bush, also opposes raising the minimum wage.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...sh-inequality/
as TBsez, actions > words!
Let's see what is developed. Until then actions>words.
lol thinkprogress.
this asshole's action already speak volumes.
TB
Scott Walker for prez!
Krazy Kruze has rallied, er, suckered his Klownz, is now 1% behind JEB and Kockenstein.
How America's Leading Conspiracy Theorist Helped Launch Rand Paul's Career
A fringe right-wing radio host who believes the government was behind 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, and several other catastrophes, has been a key figure in the political rise of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who will reportedly announce a run for president on April 7.
Paul has credited Alex Jones, who heads conspiracy website Infowars.com and an eponymous radio program, for being a vital part of his 2010 Senate campaign. Jones endorsed Paul, turned out followers to his events, and partnered with Paul for fundraising, at one point crashing his website. Since Paul's election to the Senate, Jones has continued to serve as a key Paul booster, including endorsing him for 2016.
The fringe nature of Jones' program is apparent during the introduction of one of Jones' YouTube videos featuring Paul. The video begins with images of Nazi soldiers goose-stepping next to a Nazi flag-draped White House, and a poster claiming the government covered up 9/11. Such material is regular fodder for Jones, who is "one of the earliest and most influential 9/11 conspiracy theorists."
Paul has been a longtime guest on The Alex Jones Show, originating from Jones' friendship with Rand's father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Jones said last year he first interviewed Rand in 1996 and was "probably one of the first people to ever interview" him.
Jones hosted Paul several times during his 2010 Senate race, telling listeners that he "can't stress enough how important this race for the Kentucky Senate is." Jones called Paul the "real McCoy" who will fight "against theNew World Order" and "stop the thieving, stop the gang raping" in Washington. Jones said on his January 26, 2015, broadcast that he privately encouraged Paul to run for Senate.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04...-helped/203016
Ayn Rand Paul!
KY jelly brains!
Alex Jones!
Jeb Bush Pressed Pension Officials On Behalf of Donor's Firm
Jeb Bush received the request from one of his campaign contributors, a man who made his living managing money: Could the then-governor of Florida make an introduction to state pension overseers? The donor was angling to gain some of the state’s investment for his private fund.
It was 2003, still a few years before regulators would begin prosecuting public officials for directing pension investment deals to political allies.
Bush obliged, putting the donor, Jon Kislak, in touch with the Florida pension agency’s executive director.
Then he followed up personally, according to emails reviewed by the International Business Times, ensuring that Kislak’s proposal was considered by state decision makers.
Here was a moment that at once underscored Jeb Bush’s personal attention to political allies and his embrace of the financial industry, which has delivered large donations to his campaigns.
Email records show it was one of a series of such conversations Bush facilitated between pension staff and private companies at a time when his administration was shifting billions of dollars of state pension money -- the retirement savings for teachers, firefighters and cops -- into the control of financial firms.
http://www.ibtimes.com/jeb-bush-pres...s-firm-1865946
Scott Walker, Feeling Kinship With Ronald Reagan, Claims His Legacy
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/us/politics/2016-elections-scott-walker-ronald-reagan.html?_r=0
And the Repug base will for this bull .
David Letterman’s perfect GOP jab: “Which one of these men can lead the Republicans to another crushing defeat?”
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/15/whic...al_candidates/
Republican governors have tanked the GOP brand
Walker, Christie and Jindal were supposed to show off GOP's deep bench. They highlighted incompetence instead
What do Scott Walker, Chris Christie and Bobby Jindal all have in common? They’re all sitting governors who’d like to be president, sure. But what else?
How about being embarrassingly bad at job creation? That’s right.
From January 2011 through January 2015,
Louisiana under Jindal ranked 32nd in job creation with 5.4 percent growth over four years.
Wisconsin under Walker ranked 35th, with 4.85 percent growth. New Jersey under Christie ranked 40th, with 4.15 percent growth.
This compares with a national average of 8.21 percent.
Even Ohio’s John Kasich, who’s worked more with Democrats—most notably byagreeing to Medicaid expansion under Obamacare—and thus tarnished his brand with conservative purists while puffing himself up with Beltway pundits — only ranked 23rd. He’s still under the national average, with Ohio’s 6.23 percent growth.
Ohio has yet to get back to 2007 employment levels, “The nation and the majority of other states reached this benchmark in 2014,” said researcher Hannah Halbert, in a statement from Policy Matters Ohio.
And then there’s Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas, once a 2016 hopeful cheered on by Grover Norquist and supported by supply-side icon Arthur Laffer in his crusade to slash (and eventually abolish) Kansas state income tax—a sure-fired job-creation move, according to the promises of all concerned. Justly dubbed a “failed experiment” for themassive deficits it has generated, the experiment also produced only lackluster job growth of 5.95 percent, ranking 28th in the nation—better than Walker and Christie, sure, but lower than its neighbors in Nebraska (25th) and Oklahoma (14th).
It’s not just the embarrassing job-creation numbers, though that alone should be enough to disqualify the whole lot of them.
New Jersey has just experienced its ninth bond downgrade under Christie, who may end up looking for a bridge to hide under.
In Wisconsin, Walker, facing a two-year deficit that could go as high as $2 billion, has responded with $300 million in cuts for higher education, on top of billions in previous education cuts.
Still, job creation was supposed to be Walker’s big thing—he promised to create 250,000 jobs in four years when he first ran in 2010, but came up short by more than 100,000 jobs.
Making matters worse are the neighborhood comparisons. Wisconsin ranked between 29th and 41st in job growth over the last four years, the worst in the Midwest three of those years, and second worst the other.
In fact, the state performed poorly on a whole host of indicators used by Bloomberg News, and suffers markedly in contrast with neighboring Minnesota, where progressive policies have that state’s economy recovering nicely.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/23/scot...the_gop_brand/
Repug governance!
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Repug Klown Kar fillin up!
7 Ridiculous Things Ben Carson Believes
Anarchy could cancel the 2016 election
Carson warned in an interview in 2014 that if we “continue down this pathway that we are going down,” referring to “this pathway where everything is framed in a political sense and our representatives are not working for the people, they’re working for their party,” then the anarchy could lead to the 2016 election being called off. He claimed that the growing national debt, ISIS and the then-Democrat controlled U.S. senate’s refusal to consider legislation passed by the Republican House of Representatives all pointed toward the idea that the country is headed toward anarchy.
If Carson’s prediction proved to be true, he said, Obama could declare martial law and the 2016 election would not occur.
Congress should be able to remove judges for voting for marriage equality
In an interview with a conservative radio host earlier this year, Carson said it was “uncons utional” that judges have ruled in favor of equality despite statewide ballot initiatives that resulted in different outcomes. Carson said that when federal judges make rulings like this, “our Congress actually has the right to reprimand or remove them.”
Needless to say, Carson’s assertion is incorrect. Congress cannot simply remove a judge for ruling in a way the majority disagrees with. Judges may only be removed forimpeachable offenses, which the cons ution defines as “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Being gay is a choice because prison turns people gay
Carson now infamously said in a CNN interview in March that sexuality is a choice, citing people who “go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay” as proof. He later attempted to apologize for the remarks in which he addressed those who were offended, but reinforced his belief that sexual orientation is chosen.
Carson has also called marriage equality a “Marxist plot,” described marriage equality supporters as “enemies of America,” and compared sexuality to pedophilia and bestiality, another statement that led him to similarly “apologize” for his “poorly chosen words.”
There’s no such thing as a war crime
Carson also said earlier this year that the U.S. should not hesitate to send troops to defeat the Islamic State and should not fear prosecution for its actions. In the Fox News interview, he said he would “not hesitate to put boots on the ground” and suggested that the military should not be subject to any war crimes law.
“If you’re gonna have rules for war, you should just have a rule that says no war,” he said. “Other than that, we have to win.”
Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery
Back in 2013, when Carson was still gaining recognition in the Republican Party, he said in a speech that “Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.”
“And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care,” he added. “It was about control.”
Carson has continued to speak out about Obama’s health care plan, saying this year that it’s “a bunch of crap” that politicians say they can’t unravel the legislation.
Obama is depressing the economy to keep people on welfare
After appearing on The View last year and saying that Americans have become dependent on welfare, Carson elaborated on Fox News. “Do you think that people who are on welfare want to be on welfare?” Fox’s Megyn Kelly asked him.
“I think some people have that as a way of life,” Carson responded, later adding that “perhaps some of the things that are going on right now which could be easily remedied are not being remedied in order to keep the economy depressed because there would be no appe e for many of the social programs if people were doing well.”
When pressed by Kelly, Carson wouldn’t name Obama but said there are “some people” taking these actions.
Obama signed immigration reform to bring in government-dependent voters
After speaking out about welfare, Carson said in an interview months later that Obama’s executive action on immigration was part of a “nefarious agenda” to bring new voters into the United States who will be dependent on government.
“Is he just trying to instead of get out the vote, bring in the vote?” former Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth asked Carson.“Is this all designed to have new voters — despite the fact he claims they’re not going to get citizenship — is the long-term goal to bring in a new class of voters dependent on government?”
“Of course it is,” Carson replied. He added that Republicans should respond to Obama’s action by shutting down the government, but only the parts that are “important to the president” and not any parts that will “hurt the American people.”
http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...-announcement/
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Ben Carson’s patients claim malpractice in star doctor’s path to politics
Yet even with a legacy as one of the world’s most-respected neurosurgeons, Maryland court records show Carson has been involved in at least a half-dozen malpractice cases, some of which remain pending, while others were either settled or dismissed for untold sums.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/ben-carsons-patients-claim-malpractice-in-star-doctors-path-to-politics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
and Demon-Sheep Lady and incarnation of the Peter Principle Gnarly Fiorina and her heavy plastic surgery are announcing today.
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Republican hopeful Ben Carson wins Oklahoma straw poll
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32862662
Oklahoma rednecks!
red states!
Ben Carson: Republicans have to stop letting progressives bully Christians
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/ben-...e+Raw+Story%29
BC playing (lying) the "Christians are persecuted in their own Christian country!" card.
Confederate Christian supremacists still provoking nullification and secession
Mike Huckabee: Next president must obey ‘Supreme Being’ instead of Supreme Court on gay marriage
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/mike-huckabee-next-president-must-obey-supreme-being-instead-of-supreme-court-on-gay-marriage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
yep, these assholes are True Patriots, totally perverting the FF/Cons utional laws, values, principles!
Garrison Keillor and crew of the Prairie Home Companion did a great spoof last night on Hillary contributing money to their campaigns because they suck so bad.Unhappy With a Moderate Jeb Bush, Conservatives Aim to Unite Behind an Alternative
liabilities? as in UNELECTABLE?
The skit amoung other things, had Hillary pay Guy Noir to convince Jeb to run.
detected
Jon Stewart’s new name for the 2016 GOP clown car: “19 and Counting”
“Perry is running for president!” the “Daily Show” host squealed. “Wow, prayer really does work. Gimme more!”
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/05/jon_..._and_counting/
Stewart: 'Batsh*t' Donald Trump Running Is A 'Gift From Heaven
Jon Stewart was not joking around on Wednesday when he called Donald Trump's presidential announcement "a gift from heaven."
"I'm just really happy," the host of "The Daily Show" said. "Come on, let's dance, Clownstick."
From Trump's escalator entrance to his ramblings about his wealth to his calling Mexican immigrants "rapists," Stewart savored every moment.
"This speech was so ed up, that in the middle of it, all the liquid in his mouth tried to escape from the corner of his mouth," the host added.
Eventually, Stewart concluded that the "bat billionaire" Trump was placing him in "some kind of comedy ho e" for his last six weeks hosting the show.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
As usual, the video is wonderful.
Like JimmyRicky down in TX, Kockenstin Monster Walker up in WI has had a slush fund (tax payer $100Ms), too
Chicago Tribune picks up big Walker corruption story w/ UPDATE
On Friday afternoon, the Walker gang did a news dump, revealing that the corrupt Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, which Walker created and has chaired, was responsible for handing out more than $124 million to Wisconsin businesses without any formal staff review. Please see the diary by Jake formerly of the UP on this. Since hearing about this, I have had the feeling that this outrageous episode of incompetence and cronyism might just be the thing that finally exposes Scott Walker as the criminal he is.
But I have seen little follow-up to the Friday story in any major news outlet. But the Chicago Tribune did cover it in this story: "Scott Walker's Wisconsin jobs agency gave out $124 million without review"
Such blatant corruption is now there for all to see:
Do ents detailing the awards were made public late Friday afternoon in advance of a Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation board meeting on July 20 to discuss one troubled unsecured loan that went to a failing company owned by a Walker donor.The Republican Walker, who is expected to formally launch a presidential campaign in mid-July, has been hounded by troubles with the quasi-private jobs agency he created shortly after taking office in 2011.
An internal review released Friday showed that WEDC gave out 27 award contracts to 24 companies between July 2011 and June 2013 without staff review, which WEDC said was not required at the time. Those were discovered during a review of 371 awards WEDC made in its first two years of operation.
Keep in mind that this was all carried out under Walker's direct oversight:
Of the 27 awards, just over 6,100 jobs were expected to be created, but to date only about 2,100 have been. Nearly 8,900 jobs have been retained, according to WEDC. The projects made about $490 million in investment, the report said.One of the 27 unsecured awards was a $500,000 loan to the now-defunct Milwaukee construction company Building Committee Inc. that was collapsing at the time and created no jobs. That was among several loans questioned by state auditors that led Walker in May to call for scrapping the loan program.
Incredibly, the Sunday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has nothing on the story, nothing since itsFriday story. The Sunday Wisconsin State Journal in Madison has nothing.The incompetence on display is incredible. One wonders if any of the other Republican nomination contenders will do what the Wisconsin media are not doing: grab on to this and bring fresh air and sunlight to the political cesspool that Scott Walker has created.
11:36 AM PT:I wrote this diary quickly to keep the story alive, and to help it spread. Didn't expect it to end up on the rec list, so thanks. But I have a commitment this afternoon and won't be able to respond. Please carry on!
UPDATE: Let's hope the momentum picks up on this: Green Bay Senator Hansen Calls for Closure of WEDC:
State Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) called for the closure of the troubled Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) today after it was revealed that WEDC officials failed to perform critical underwriting for $124.4 million in taxpayer supported loans it made to 27 companies.
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“WEDC has been an unmitigated disaster from the start. It has been one scandal after another, squandered millions of dollars and failed to produce any significant numbers of jobs,” said Hansen a longtime critic. “There is no way to justify its existence any longer. It is time to end WEDC. It is beyond repair and the taxpayers deserve better.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...y?detail=email
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