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October 06, 2015 06:39 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”

–Charles Baudelaire

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  1. Baudelaire shoulda' met today's GOPer yokels; their world goes round (not completely sure about that, even?)  totally divorced from reality.

    Two cases in point:  I'm stuck on the road this week, so I saw USA Today in the breakfast lounge.  Their headline?: "Biblical flooding becoming more common"!!  Now WTF does a collection of fantasy have to do with today's flooding?!?

    Number two:  

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/publisher-promises-revisions-after-textbook-refers-to-african-slaves-as-workers.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

    Why does reality-based wording matter less in today's world than some person's corporation's deeply-held belief in an imaginary flying-spaghetti-monster playmate?

    One final thought, if people are made in the image of God, is God a corporation?              Who's on His board of directors?   Can we talk about some kind of pay-for-performance goals?

  2. Geico does insurance – it's what they do.

    Republicans lie – it's what they do nearly every day about nearly everything:

    Carly Fiorina is not happy with the Washington Post article about the 2010 campaign debts she left unpaid for years, including a debt to the widow of a pollster who died while working for Fiorina. Apparently Fiorina thinks all she needs to do is blame the liberal media:

    According to MSNBC, Fiorina assailed "the left and their allies in the media" for the story, which was based on more than two dozen interviews with staff members, friends, contractors and operatives who worked on the 2010 Senate campaign. All said there was a huge problem with the operation: It didn't manage money well. Fiorina said Monday that The Post doesn't "have much credibility" anymore.

    If not the Post, how about the Federal Election Commission, and Fiorina's own FEC filings? Because of course the Post has Fiorina's termination report from her 2010 Senate campaign, and of course it was filed in January 2015, immediately before she began running for president. It shows payments for finance consulting, political strategy consulting, research consulting, web ads, web service, database management, compliance consulting, printing, and, yes, to the widow of the pollster who died on the campaign. It's documentary evidence, from Fiorina herself, that the original Post story was accurate, and she did not finish paying off hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign debt until five years later when she began running for president.

    Fiorina is accomplished at the Republican school of lying firmly, confidently, and flagrantly, but for real, when not only are there dozens of witnesses to what you did but you yourself have filed government documents to that effect … blaming "the left and their allies in the media" is just not going to hack it.

    It's obvious the press has great hesitation in using the word "liar". So do websites like Colorado Pols, because bipartisanship

    A lie is a fricking lie and we and everyone need to call the Lying Liars out, just like Al Franken did. They won't tell the truth just because it's, you know, it's true. And if it takes some explaining, then explain it. If it takes documentation, take it down to Fedex and blow it up to 1000% and show it.

  3. Republican Sociopathic (a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience, e.g. that means as a group they "hate society") neglect of infrastructure and their determination that no one should pay taxes*:

    In 2013, a survey warned us that the country is chockfull of aging, obsolete dams, many of them of the earthen variety, like the ones that gave way in South Carolina today. That same survey found South Carolina's performance on dam safety as leaky and unsafe as the dams themselves.  I mean, 4.3 fulltime employees to monitor and inspect 550 dams, 162 of which were classified as "high-hazard." And, while my thoughts and prayers are with the victims, my memories go back a year earlier, in 2012, when Superstorm Sandy blew New Jersey off toward the Azores, and every single member of the South Carolina congressional delegation save one voted against a relief package for the victims. This list includes presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, lop-headed Benghazi gumshoe Trey Gowdy, and Joe (You Lie!) Wilson. And it's not difficult at all to summon up the fact that the entire Republican party denies that an increasingly deranged climate is causing increasingly deranged weather. Sometimes, the compassion of the blue states toward their backward brethren in red is well-nigh astonishing.​

    Colorado's Republican congressional delegation is the same way. It's disgusting, it's not "conservative" in any way, and it's wrong.

    * – this is the logical conclusion to the fact that the fight any tax increase, they fight any loophole closure, they fight having corporations pay taxes on profits already taken overseas. 

     

    1. Remember back when Bush the Elder called it voodoo economics when Reagan was campaigning for the nomination on tax cuts that were supposed to improve the economy so much that there would be lots more revenue, plenty for everything we need?

      Since taxes on the top brackets are now much lower than Reagan ever dreamed of and have been for ages, we should be rolling in revenue, so much so that a ridiculous surplus should be the problem, just like Bush the Younger foresaw shortly before he powered throught the surplus he inherited from a Dem and sent the economy crashing straight through the sub-basement, right after ignoring all the warnings about an imminent threat and letting the most serious, high fatality terrorist attack of all time on American soil happen on his watch, while chuckling about all those Nervous Nellies with their hair on fire nagging him about some intel Condi promised was just "historical" information.

      Clearly, we don't need any new relief packages for anyone. According to conservative trickle down projections there should be more than enough money for every need, must have been for a couple of decades by now. Better check those dams again because, clearly, trickle down must have been producing more than enough revenue all these years to keep them and our roads, bridges, energy grid and schools all in tip top shape. They're fine. And things will get even better under Jeb! because he doesn't think big bro went far enough.

      More cuts for the rich and more of that sweet, sweet trickle down should produce an even more embarrassing surplus of riches and a BMW in every garage. Unless, of course, Bush the Elder was right about the whole voodoo thing and his sons are morons. Ya think?

      Ya think maybe they've been pissing on our legs all these years while telling us…. of course that's not piss, guys! Sure it's warm and yellow, kind of like piss, but it's really delightful, refreshing, golden trickle down! It's all good! Except we need more cuts and subisidies for the rich. Trust us. You'll be fine.

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