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CPols, please remove this inhumane hate piece of Mr. Carnegie's out of respect for the family of this fallen American.
+1
+2. If this amoral troll cannot be banned outright, could you please at least consider imposing a moratorium on his almost complete reliance upon these cheap, evil, lie-based cartoons and Photoshopped photographic propaganda filth? Make the coward use his own craven words, instead of some other propagandist hack's work. He spams the boards constantly with this garbage, rendering CoPols a virtual GOTP propaganda billboard in the process.
At least the other Koch troll, Zippy, uses words, however harebrained and fraudulent they might be.
Except, of course, when Zippy whips out his dead-horse gif, over and over and over. ad naseum…
I agree with my friends here. I am not normally in favor of censoring anything, but this piece of human excrement that calls himself Andrew Carnegie does not deserve any consideration as a poster or a person. There have been many low, amoral, bothersome trolls here, but this asshole has taken it to a new level.
Though I think his presence effective in terms of continuing to turn off moderate Republicans and strenghtening the resolve of progressives to fight this disgusting trend, I think you should remove that photo and if you are unwilling to ban him outright, put this WIF on probation.
There is a limit to anything, Pols…even free speech. This awful person should be removed from this site. Sadism is unacceptable….
Hey tough guy, bet you are like all the other right wing chickenhawks – haven't seen one day of active duty but are more tha willing to send others to fight for you pathetic excuse of a life. Have you been wrong and ignorant your entire life?
Yes, he is, and yes, he has. A complete waste of skin and oxygen.
..speaking of ignorant. Where's ol' Phil "I'm a homophobe just like Jesus'" Robertson? Did he pick up arms and head for Syria? Or is he laughing his ass off all the way to the bank while his hoards of followers rush down to Wally World and buy his useless shit made in China? It appears he left at least one ignorams behind…
Between that haircut and his religious zealotry, he might be confused for one of the ISIS fanatics…….
It's enough to make one hope for the Rapture if it means he and his kind will disappear.
Wouldn't the Rapture take away the actual, practicing Christians? I'm pretty sure that'd leave AC around here with us Heathens.
I don't think you can call AC a Conservative or a Christian. The Tea Party psychos like to claim those connections, but they're really not. They're just bitter, nasty old regressives.
AC didn't make that vile image. Someone else did. And a number of someone elses in the Tea Party, like him, thought it was just dandy.
My comment referred to Phil Robertson, but given AC's earlier obscene posting the confusion is understandable.
Duck Dynasty is 90% fake.
The 10% real parts:
The 90% fake parts:
That would put it on a par with most "reality" shows. Least fake: Deadliest Catch.
I wouldn't call the 'mid-80's' recent. Unless you're at a Club 20 meeting I guess.
But yeah, its TV. He's still a conservative bigot.
Just like so many of my acquaintences in these parts….
Duck call, line one, MJ
Duckriot response.
Quote from Nirvana's Kurt Cobain:
It makes sense, if you think about it. Using the corpses of other people is as close to combat that a Chickenshit ChickenHawk like AC will ever get.
Finally feel like a real man, ACHole?
You are one sick, evil, lowdown mofo.
Nah, he's really just a run-of-the-mill GOTP ChickenHawk. They love doing offensive things in the name of "goodness and justice" and all that crap.
Deep down, they're all just scummy, cowardly little sociopaths, who take genuine pleasure in doing this kind of nasty shit, because it's the kind of behavior they'd never get away with in reasonable company.
There isn't even a word for this POS; I thought the WIF had hit his low.
Sadly, he hasn't.
I think of the good, well-meaning Repubs that I grew up with and still know today and it honestly makes me really sad. They are in complete denial that this "is their party" – while these assholes gloat.
It’s my sincere hope that your sense of humor ran away with you, as mine occasionally does, and you didn’t realize that what initially struck you as humorous was really not. I hope you wish you could edit the post to remove the picture you used. I hope you realize how awful what you did is. I hope, but I don’t believe.
Mr. Sotloff was a mother’s child, a father’s son, a coworker, a friend. In fact, he shared the same thing in common that is the one thing you apparently share with the president you hate—he was an American. He died for that. Just as you would if you were taken. Just as the president would if he were taken.
That you could ever believe that turning this horrific act of hatred into a quick hit bit of political nonsense was OK is unfathomable to me. It is not, unfortunately, unsurprising. I found myself more surprised that you didn’t use a later image, less “humorous,” after the man in black on the right took his knife in hand, held Mr. Sotloff and sawed through trachea, carotid artery and jugular vein, through sinew and finally the spine, and severed the head of Mr. Sotloff from his body.
If you are being paid to post here, I hope that you are fired. Not because I want to see you placed in economic jeopardy, but because I want to believe that there is still decency on the right.
Pols, if you do remove the picture, please leave some text to describe what it was.
Also, I believe it’s time for Mr. Carnegie to leave us permanently. I’m not sure how posting something like this is any less offensive that racial slurs or outing.
AC is a self-professed man of morals and principles who gets off on offending people anonymously on the internet. He's one sick, twisted little old psycho, and one shudders to think about the other ways his sickness manifests itself.
Years of dealing with extremely sick people when I was a LEO taught me that you just can't keep that under wraps forever; it oozes out where decent people can sense it. I'd imagine family gatherings in his clan are more than a little awkward.
LEO? Besides my husband's sign and my cat's name, what does that mean?
Law enforcement officer. Covers the gamut from Feds, state, and locals.
Thanks for the assist. 🙂 I don't like to be too specific about my employment history, even though most of the people I worked with are now retired or moved on to other areas. It's still a pretty small town, after all.
Thanks. I usually google before admitting ignorance but found nothing about law enforcement.
And please, Colpols, consider whether this is sufficiently revolting and offensive to trigger banning.
What she said.
Seriously. A man was brutally murdered moments after that video grab was captured. And troll uses it to attack Obama in a drive by. Ithought this about it from the get go when it tried to attack Senator Udall through his family. Then it routinely has danced on the graves of our soldiers, our diplomats, sprinkled in some ethnic slurs and other genuinely offensive, not just your harsh blog banter, ka ka. And now this.
I bet his family appreciates you trolling with his dead body. You are one disgusting excuse for whatever it is you are.
Gail Collins hit both Gardner and Coffman today in her column, "Passion for the Pill," especially calling out Cory for his flip flopping on personhood amendments. Too bad she didn't include Both Ways. She could have made it the anti-choice trifecta.
At this point, we will hear from Moddy with his little video of the man with the cane beating the dead horse.
A must read. Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/opinion/gail-collins-passion-for-the-pill.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
It's a proud day for Colorado GOPers when two of their congressmen score as national jokes in the very same NYT article!
Isn't that a great piece? I hope it's receiving very wide distribution, here in CO and nationwide.
Evidently the GOTP doesn''t comprehend that this new-fangled, confounded innertubes/interwebz thingamabob let's us all know that their hack candiates from coast to coast are attempting to pull the same "over-the-counter contraception" con on women in any number or races. Their transparent playbook apparently was written by tone-deaf, dimwitted, low-tech frat boys.
Craven Cory and Mikey The Boob (but, not the good kind) . . . your reputations have now gone national, boys!
That was fun…thanks!
Kudos to our President for not rushing in to war this time, unlike his predecessor. The entire quote, in context, about strategy, is that we don't have a strategy for Syria airstrikes – and no wonder.
Are we supposed to get cozy again with Assad, although we were arming rebels against him just months ago?
Do we arm Assad's air force or ground troops, when they willl possibly turn on our allies?
Do we merely try to contain ISIS, since, although they are cruel and genocidal, they also stabilize the areas which they take over?
What do the money guys, the Saudis, want us to do?
We don't have much oil imported from Iraq anymore, although our allies do – should we wait until our allies step up?
We know that Barack Obama will be viciously criticized by the right no matter what he does – wait for Congressional approval, strategic airstrikes on ISIS without Congressional approval, arm Assad, arm rebels, airstrikes, whatever, so the right wingers that like to post little graphics showing someone's violent death in order to troll the conversation shouldn't even be considered as a serious contribution to dialogue. Your objectives are merely to make Obama look bad for political gain, and that's all you really care about.
What are our aims and objectives in Iraq and Syria? What would victory look like?
excellent post mj55 and 100% correct.
Spot on, MamaJ
Attending the debate between Claudette Konola and Ray Scott. Scott is lying about fracking. The Beauprez boys standing next to me are starting the cat calls..
Back and forth now….
Scott is accusing Konola of being anti fracking…not working…
Here's a question for Ray Scott: Given your thoroughly unimpressive record as a representative, do we look forward to years of getting nothing done or will you at least provide some good blog material by flaming out in some face-palm worthy scandal or boner move?
Sadly, I was distracted by a family matter and didn't yet get to comment on the debate. Recognizing that I am a fan of and work with Konola, I still honestly believe she kicked his ass. Scott seemed off-balance and confused right out of the chute.
He said repeatedly that his complete inactivity on water issues is because he was butt-hurt by Hickenloopers' treatment of the legislature. (my characterization, not his)
While Konola kept her cool and seemed professional and focused, Scott seemed ill at ease when his old, hackneyed talking points didn't get the rousing reception to which he is accustomed. Konola actually got considerably more applause than Scott. The progressive community was very well represented in the room and it seems the GJ Chamber of Commerce and Club 20 fell down on the job when it came to packing the room with friendlies.
Konola–1 Scott–0
Next…Chris Kennedy at 2:00 PM….
Thanks for the great front-line work, Duke! We appreciate your sharing.
Good to hear!
Hope your family matter is working out OK. All the best to you and yours.
When did GJers get so demanding and discerning?
I mean, shouldn't staying unindicted count for something on the West Slope these days?
Bobby McFerrin named Assistant Secretary of State for the Mideast.
He has a plan.
He will keep singing his tune, "Don't worry, be Happy".
It is very similar to Obama's plan, but there will be a nice beat to it.
Can someone get the disinfectant?
Rasmussen: UDALL UP BY 2
Sam Wang: DEMS 51 GOTP 49 Meta-margin: DEMS +1.7 Proabaility of DEMS retaining Senate if vote held today: 95% In November: 75%
But don't worry, Skippy — be happy! It isn't all slipping away from you dung stains — no, of course not!
Two-bit putz.
I can hear Zippy: “But, but, but Nate Silver said last week there’s a 50.001% chance of a Gardner win!”
You are utterly worthless. I hope you get banned.
Jeeeez, BC — if the chucklehead wasn't worthless, he wouldn't be anything!?!
The United States is definitely in the midst of another housing bubble, though when it will pop and what the consequences will be is harder to predict.
Maybe. Perhaps. Certainly not unlikely. But whenever the next almost certain market correction does occur, it will be much less likely to cause the kind of system wide devastation as before . . .
Why? Thank to regulations implemented after the Bush debacle, the CFPB, and, Elizabeth Warren in particular — most of the mortgage loan features and economic conditions that led to the foreclosure spiral — balloon payments, prepayment penalties, equity churning and skimming, no-income verification ("liar") loans, high LTV originations, etc., etc. — have been mostly, albeit not completely, from the process.
Will there be an eventual large-geography market correction? Yes! Will the landing be softer, shallower, and much more manageable? Yes!!!
god, how I love effective governance and regulation!
President Bush and President Obama both did a less than adequate job in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. My main criticism of both them is the lack of accountability, in particular the fact that too big to fail hasn’t become less of a problem, if anything it’s become more of a problem. I just hope we won’t end up bailing anyone out this time but I won’t count on getting my wish.
I’d like to believe that a market correction will bring prices in line, with what people, who actually want a place to live, can afford. However, home prices have been incredibly distorted by flipping and investors (including hedge funds) snapping up property to rent out–the latter often buy in all cash. However, in the absence of some miracle that removes speculators from the housing market—if not completely at least enough to where aspiring homeowners aren’t competing against speculators like they are right now—the days of home-ownership may be permanently over for a large segment of the population.
And don't forget the cowed Dems, as always, afraid of being called too liberal who were afraid to go far enough with the stimulus, Not that always cautious to a fault Obama was giving them much cover. Still, not far enough worked out a lot better than going in a completely wrong direction. See Europe for the success of the rightie's beloved and thoroughly discredited austerity approach.
For what it's worth… Just saw the latest Razzy poll of likely voters flash by on twitter. Udall up 44% to Gardner 42%. — well within the 4% margin for error and of course their new-found tilt in our direction.
Still better than a stick in the eye!
When Fox News Didn't Blame The (GOP) President For Beheadings
Republican pols, talking heads and trolls are completely cynical with no sense of decency. Period. I want Piss ant banned for posting that pic, I want the pic taken down and I want Colpols to apologize to the family and assure them the responsible despicable creep will never show up on this blog again.
History shows raising wagesdoesn't cause job loss but improves the economy. Here's a recent example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-no-calamity-yet-as-seatac-wash-adjusts-to-15-minimum-wage/2014/09/05/d12ba922-3503-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.htm
Bad news for trollies, good news for the rest of the country. That bastion of liberalism, Forbes magazine, says that "
There's still too-high unemployment among youth, particularly minority youth. I'm under-employed myself. But, whatever you may think of all of Obama's policies, , he has turned the country around economically from the Bush years, and outperformed Reagan, in the face of determined and unwavering obstruction from the GOP.
New NBC marist poll released today. Bad news for Colorado republicans. Hickenlooper is beating Bob Beauprez by 4 and Udall is beating Gardner by 6 points. This is for likely voters.
The Ny Times now gives Udall a cose to 80% chance of beating right wing loon Cory Gardner in November 🙂
Unless Gardner comes up with some new material, his red meat Obama baiting ain't gonna fly so well with a more balanced crowd. Its difficult to be too conservative and rabidly right for the Club20/Mesa GOP base–but Gardner mentioned Obama in every comment as far as I recall.
Udall did better, but it wasn't his strongest performance. Still he got pretty riled (righly so) at Gardner's total ignorance on foreign policy–which was basically "Terrorists want to come kill your Children like my family in Yuma! American beheaders are running amok because of Mark Udall." Udall got flustered when Gardner basically asked when he knew he was lying about Obamacare. He was stronger when he defended his vote on the ACA, which I think he did well, and challenged Gardner on his 'more than 50 votes to repeal' the law without offering any solutions. He also took Cory on re: shutting down the government, which Gardner tried (pretty unconvincingly) to wiggle out of. Garder whined about Udall making state disasters 'political' (to which the Udall crowd scoffed), having just raised the spectre of American executioners setting up shop in Orchard City because of Mark Udall.
The trend toward Cory becoming more widely known as a rather untrustworthy person will continue and increase as more and more people get to listen to his mealy-mouthed recitation of one phony, red-meat talking point and buzz word after another. "Cory's my name, prevaricatin' is my game".
Polling Data
Poll
Date
Sample
MoE
Udall (D)
Gardner (R)
Spread
RCP Average
7/17 – 9/4
—
—
45.5
42.5
Udall +3.0
NBC News/Marist
9/2 – 9/4
795 LV
3.5
48
42
Udall +6
Rasmussen Reports
9/3 – 9/4
800 LV
4.0
44
42
Udall +2
CBS News/NYT/YouGov
8/18 – 9/2
1727 LV
4.0
46
43
Udall +3
PPP (D)
7/17 – 7/20
653 RV
3.8
44
43
Udall +1
All Colorado Senate – Gardner vs. Udall Polling Data
Sorry. I did it just the way I've been successfully posting stuff like this lately but it didn't work. In case Piss Ant is lurking that's the latest from hs beloved RCP, including that new Marist poll, without a single poll showing Gardner ahead.
If you switched names on this thing Piss Ant would be crowing about a trend for Gardner. That is if he still had the nerve to show up here. Notice the times the polls were taken and the direction from oldest to most recent. Even though they're close they certainly don't show that Con Man Corey and Troll Buddy's dull, silly, repetitious attacks are having the desired effect.
I stopped trying with tables. I just grab the part of my screen I want, go to http://postimage.org (free), and grab the URL from the Direct Link box after I upload my pic.
Thank you. I'm more of a computer for dummies type. Colpols can feel free to take down my waste of space .
Also, because he who shall not be named hasn't gloated recently, I assumed his beloved 538 model had screwed him. It did. He last gloated that Gardner had gone from R+1, 52% to win to 53%. Well, say hello to my little friend R +0, 52%, oh ye of the beheading pictures:
Forbes, huh? That commie rag?
Don Suppes' elementary school teacher is doing a robocall for him (SD5 v. Kerry Donavan).
"Don always put his crayons back in his box when it was naptime, without EVER being asked."