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July 12, 2014 12:48 AM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

–Leo Tolstoy

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  1. "Insane" doesn't even begin to cover it.  WTF has happened to responsible elective representation from either party??!!??  Irresponsible, pandering em-eff-ers all . . . 

    This Road Work Made Possible by Underfunding Pensions

    If you define “fiscal responsibility” solely in terms of whether the federal budget deficit grows or shrinks over a 10-year window, you can reach the conclusion that the foregoing plan serves the goal of “fiscal responsibility.” Which only goes to show that politicians in both parties have settled on an insane definition of “fiscal responsibility.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/upshot/this-road-work-made-possible-by-underfunding-pensions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

     

  2. The Evils of Outsourcing and Subcontracting pervade our economy

    A lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, claims Wal-Mart was negligent when a driver of one of its tractor-trailers rammed into Morgan's limousine van June 7. The complaint claims the retail giant should have known that its driver had been awake for over 24 hours and that his commute of 700 miles from his home in Georgia to work in Delaware was "unreasonable." It also alleges the driver fell asleep at the wheel.

    "As a result of Wal-Mart's gross, reckless, willful, wanton, and intentional conduct, it should be appropriately punished with the imposition of punitive damages," according to the complaint.

    In a statement issued Saturday, Wal-Mart reiterated that it was "cooperating fully" in the ongoing investigation.

    "We know it will take some time to resolve all of the remaining issues as a result of the accident, but we're committed to doing the right thing for all involved," Wal-Mart said.

    Very few individuals have the tools to negotiate fair and reasonable work conditions on their own in a hostile jobs environment brought about by employers' race to the bottom of the pay scale. But R's call this the Free Market and say we should let the "invisible hand" take care of the messy details. 

    Walmart's defense will be that it is not their employee, not their work rules, not their responsibility for what this guy did. Yep, Walmart had nothing to do with any of it……….

      1. The GOP strategy is to keep the deficit rising so they can blame Obama… 

        The media will just report the slow rate of economic growth, stagnant wages and rising deficit — not the fact that it's the Republican Congress that is the primary culprit.

        The bad news for the GOP is that the deficit is projected to drop even further to about $492 billion next year.  Expect more Santa Claus bills for the wealthy that mean ol' Democrats will have to vote against.

          1. They'll resume that process if/when they gain control of both Houses and/or the Presidency.

            See all the GOP states that are slowly circling the drain from rising poverty, poor schools and misplaced priorities (more guns, fewer insured, shutdown women's clinics, taxpayer subsidized private/religious schools, etc.)

  3. More for the You Can't Make This Stuff Up file

    Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R-It's Never My Fault) has brought austerity to the state, Mississippi sink-to-the-bottom policies, bitter political divisiveness, extremism, anti-worker, anti-woman, crush the poor and disabled policies to Wisconsin.  He granted a stingy 1% wage increase to state employees (denied to workers who have still managed to keep their unions) while sucking out 18% of their already low wages.  "We're broke", he claimed repeatedly when he rolled out his budgets.

    While he was doing that, however, he managed to implant his cronies not just in appointed positions, but embedded many in Civil Service positions with enormous salary increases over their predecessors.  He recently hired another of his former Milwaukee County staffers, Cynthia Archer (who was involved in the original John Doe Probe, but kept her mouth shut), to a job she didn't apply for (overlooking the ones who had applied for the job), never interviewed for, with a salary of $113,000 per year (131% higher than the person she replaced).

    And today we find out that her salary exceeds the top pay for that position.

    It's been a pattern for Walker hiring cronies into big positions along with big, big, big raises.  Then again, those big salaries are buying a whole lot of loyalty … and silence.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313330/-Scott-Walker-Spending-Lavishly-on-Himself-While-Squeezing-Everyone-Else?detail=email

     

    [W]hen questioned about his position on social issues, [Minnesota House candidate Bob Frey (R)] added that it “does certainly need to be addressed for what it is. It’s not about the gay agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It’s more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle.”

    Frey then explained his view: “When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That’s why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”

    Here's the thing. Someone, somewhere, had to come up with this theory. They had to think about it, possibly while high on all of the nation's available drugs, and tell themselves that yeah, that must be how AIDS works. It must be because wayward sperms that don't find eggs cause you to die. The common cold is caused by tiny invisible rhinoceroses, why the hell not, and when you sneeze that's just your lungs trying to escape in order to fly back to their home planet, Neptune.

    Jeebus, people. Just … Jeebus.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313317/-Minnesota-Republican-explains-where-AIDS-comes-from?detail=email

     Make This stuff up file:

    1. Last paragraph should also be in quotes. Not my words but from daily kos. Don't know what happened with dangling repeat of Make this stuff Up. All in all, close enough. Wish editing was easier.

    2. Is that Minnesota state House or U.S. House candidate?  I can see him being a worthy successor to Michelle "HPV vaccine" Bachman serving on the House Science and Technology Committee.

  4. For any of our righties saying to themselves… hey, it sounds sciency to me:

    For the record, that is not the least bit correct. HIV is actually a virus which is acquired through infected blood, semen and vaginal secretions and according to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is an equal opportunity virus,”which impacts newborn babies, women, seniors, teens and people of all races or nationalities.”

    Frey, though, clearly is not swayed by the world’s leading doctors and scientists on the matter.

    http://latest.com/2014/07/3135/

    It's caused by a virus, anal transmission completely optional.

    1. Too bad they couldn't have gotten just a few hundred more signatures. But he'll be gone by January – and in the meantime, he will be a huge embarrassment and reminder to El Paso Republicans that just cause someone talks the "family values, guns everywhere" line does not mean that they are in any meaningful way a conservative.

      I hope that Maketa is a dead weight on all GOP candidates in the Springs.

    1. Jeez, for a guy that hardly campaigned and really didn't seem to care, he's really taking his loss hard.  Here you go Tanc, this is for you:

       

       

      1. Victimhood — it's a core value and the mark of a true, dyed in the wool, GOPer . . . 

        . . . only difference between Tanc and Dan Maes, is Maes got someone to write him a whole book of whine. 

        Tanc needs to find a ghostwriter. (Maybe Scott McInnis is available?)

        1. He's just reestablishing himself as a D list wacko rightie celeb, which was the real point of this latest campaign. Needed to breathe some new life into his fading D list fame.  

          Last time he established his wacko cred by going third party. This time he hopes just making anti-establishment noises will be enough to keep him popular with the Palin crowd for a while longer. Both times he's been completely aware that he wasn't ever going to be Governor. But he might be invited to join in a few more choruses of Dixie at White Supremacist events again. Be a speaker at some nativist immigrant bashing rallies. That sort of thing.

  5. True – notice that the kicker at the end of his article is a plug for his book and a sign up sheet for his "Hey, are you stupid enough to send me more money?" Newsletter.

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