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     The idiots are running the asylum.
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Lenin statue toppled in Ukraine.
One down, 5,279 to go.
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Accusations of Obama by the Sick Right.

President Obama not born in America. (Faux News apparently forgot that Hawaii is the fiftieth state in the United States of America.)

President Obama is the first American President forced to produce a birth certificate. This is shameful and the Right should be ashamed of themselves. But, they probably aren’t; not when they have Trump, the Monumental Comb-Over on their side.

Lies. When Bush lied, people DIED. And are still dying.

Swaggers. Really? President Obama seems pretty humble–not like Bush, who swaggered as soon as he stepped into the Oval Office.

And how can we forget: The major fighting in Iraq has ended  before Cheney broke the news to him?

Bush took more vacation than any other president. President Obama’s informal working meetings do not count as vacation, duh.

Is inarticulate. Bush? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Stop, you’re killing me. Obama speaks educated American English; Bush couldn’t string two words together articulately. Obama never lamented how hard it is to “put food on your family.”

President Obama is not American–he is a traitor, not a patriot (After all, liberals hate America and want to destroy it).

President Obama is a Socialist, Marxist, etc. who wants to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Hmm, a lot of liberals think Obama is a Fascist...and since the income gap between rich and poor is insanely huge and out-of-control, how could it possibly hurt to give some of the money back to the people the rich stole it from in the first place, duh?

President Obama hates America and wants to destroy it! He is a Muslim–Heck, Faux News probably wants us to think that Obama is the Anti-Christ!.

He wants to take away ALL our guns!

He wants to be dictator. That’s really funny–Bush even SAID he wanted to be a dictator three different times!

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/2002/10/29_Dictator.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNo0_klKzis

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Dictatorship-would-be-easier-Bush-jokes-of-his-1060971.php

Has no intention of ever leaving office. Strange! The Left was extremely concerned that Bush would not leave office and would force his way into a third term (at which time the people would have to assassinate the little prick).

Faux News must have been tracking it and decided that accusing President Obama of the same thing would scare the bejesus out of their base...and it worked!

Bush attacked people who reported negative things about him and tried to tell the press (such as it is) what to say. Didn’t Bush do exactly this, and didn’t reporters, like Helen Thomas, disappear after confronting Bush? Is the same thing really happening with President Obama?

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Unrelated: Doesn’t Bush speak clearly since he’s out of office? He actually sounds articulate, just like he did when he was running for president. Didn’t he sound incoherent (Drunk? Drugged? Both?) while in the Oval Office? Did anyone but me notice?

The problem seems to be that throughout the Cheney/Bush era the Right was dealing with a moron and President Obama clearly is not one. In fact, we should be grateful this President is a true American who genuinely wants the best for the American people.

Why else would he put his Presidency on the line by introducing Health Care despite the aggressive “dirty tricks” and general bad behavior with tantrums by the “religious” Right?

Nota  Bene: The Right is bent on destroying as many public institutions as they can before the American people realize what is going on.

Sparkle Plenty

Life Magazine -- 1947
"The doll is 14 inches high. Her long hair can be brushed and braided. She is "warm and snuggly" because her  "Magic Skin" will stand washing.
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Layette includes sacque* and diaper."

*sack

"Sparkle Plenty" is the daughter of B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie.

Once she becomes a doll, she starts to set sales records.

In his comic strip Dick Tracy,  Chester Gould created a repulsive gallery of characters which includes such figures as Flattop, The Brow and the Mole.

Last year Gould married off two of his unseemly personalities, B. O. Plenty, an unkempt, smelly old criminal and Gravel Gertie, a banjo-playing dervish who lived in a gravel pit.

Oh, I get it! My mother would call any one of us Gravel Gertie if we came in dirty after hours of play.

Didn’t mean anything to me...I didn’t know how to read yet!

Two months ago this grotesque couple amazed Gould's public by producing a beautiful child named Sparkly.

Her dazzling eyes and hip-length blond hair immediately won the hearts of Dick Tracy's 26 million readers.

Among them was an ex-all American football player named William M. McDuffee, manager of the toy department of Gimbels, one of the largest department stores in the U.S.

McDuffee reasoned that because of the popular comic strip a Baby Sparkle Plenty doll would need little advertising or promotion.

McDuffee took his idea to the Ideal Toy and Novelty Co. Forty eight days later, the production of Baby Sparkle Plenty dolls began.

On July 28 they went on sale.

At a stiff $5.98 apiece, 10,000 sold in the first five days.

Sales in the next two weeks zoomed to 22,000.

At this rate more Baby Sparkle Plentys will be sold in the last five months of this year than all other types of doll put together.

McDuffee, who knows a good thing when he has it, is getting ready to bring out Baby Sparkle Plenty cradle and a Gravel Gertie banjo."

What is the LIBOR Rate?

LIBOR stands for “London Inter-Bank Offered Rate.”

It is based on rates that contributor banks in London offer each other for inter-bank deposits.

From a bank’s perspective, deposits are simply funds that are loaned to them.

So in effect, a LIBOR is a rate at which a fellow London bank can borrow money from other banks.

Rate calculations are complex as they incorporate variables such as time, maturity and currency rates.

There are hundreds of LIBOR rates reported each month in numerous currencies.

We report the 12 Month LIBOR on or after the first of the month.

This is the LIBOR for a twelve month deposit in U.S. Dollars on the last business day of the previous month.

Note: Rates published prior to July 2007 reflect the Fannie Mae LIBOR rate which used a different calculation

Fannie Mae discontinued its use and publication of LIBOR rates at the end of June 2007 and suggested a replacement rate using our current methodology, which is similar to the Wall Street Journal LIBOR (WSJ LIBOR).

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I refuse to join any club that would have
me as a member.
                                                               Groucho Marx
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Just because some nut who is president of the NRA thinks we should shoot anything that makes us feel uncomfortable (the George Zimmerman syndrome) and ask questions later, just isn’t working out.

Sorry Mr. LaPierre, we live in a society of people not on a shooting range or on a ranch out west.

It’s time to consider serious gun control.

Every American, even those who have never fired a gun, (btw, I have) needs to realize that these automatics are for nothing more than killing people, not fluffy little deer.

So each massacre is bound to be more horrific than the last as each killer says to himself: I can do better than that.

How many of these do we need to witness before we get the message that there are degrees of crazy...from ZERO, to fairly sane, to that bitch just took my parking space, to just having a bad day.

In any event we, as homogeneous beings, have a serious problem. Our problem isn’t evident in any other developed country. 

Until it is resolved these shootings will continue; we will be appropriately shocked for a day, and then we’ll resume whatever we were doing.

Soon there won’t be an American who hasn’t been touched by our insane gun control laws...or lack thereof.

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Don't Let Them Steal Our
SOCIAL SECURITY!
Social Security has not
added a red cent to the deficit.
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Detroit Retirees Need To See the BOOKS and CANCELLED CHECKS to find out exactly where every PENNY of their money went!

The "bigs" are waiting to see if this heist is successful. If it is, there will be a rash of lost or stolen pension funds and a redistribution of wealth.

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Detroit Bankruptcy Decision Puts
Pensions at Risk

By Ed White, Associated Press

Stakes Now Even Higher for 
Detroit Retirees!

Dec. 4, 2013--Shirley Lightsey's phone keeps ringing.

As head of a group of Detroit retirees, she's trying to keep up with calls from anxious pensioners who fear their monthly payments are at great risk now that a judge says the bankrupt city can cut them.

Unions and pension funds are pledging to appeal a historic decision by Judge Steven Rhodes that found Detroit is broke and public pensions in a bankruptcy aren't protected by the Michigan Constitution.

Although union leaders have appealed, bankruptcy experts say it's now a critical time to negotiate the best deal possible for 23,000 retirees and thousands more current employees.

Most city retirees have a pension of less than $20,000 a year.

"You're talking about thousands of people who need to know what to anticipate six months from now, a year, 18 months," said Melanie Cyganowski, a former bankruptcy judge in New York.

"Can I live in the same house?

Do I need to sell my house?

Can I afford to live in a nursing home?"

An out-of-court deal would bring certainty, she said.

"You've bargained something and it will be there," said Cyganowski, a judge for 14 years.

For months, Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has said two pension funds are short by $3.5 billion, about 20 percent of the $18 billion in long-term debt that the city is trying to erase at a steep discount in bankruptcy court.

Retirees are even more agitated because they still don't know how much of a real hit they could face.

Orr is expected to present a plan to settle all debts by early January, a way out that still would need the judge's blessing.

Rhodes said he'll be very sensitive to how retirees are treated, insisting he won't "lightly or casually" approve any cut in benefits.

Lightsey, 79, who worked in the water department and leads the Detroit Retired City Employees Association from her home in Southfield, said she doesn't consider Rhodes' decision this week as the last word.

Orr and his team "are ledger-driven, red ink, black ink people," she said.

"Retirees did everything they were supposed to do.

They were not a drain on the system. They worked. They retired. Not one penny should be touched."

Orr said he's not heartless.

He said he keeps a recording in his briefcase of uneasy retirees who spoke at a September court hearing.

"No one is more aware of the hardship that this is going to cause to a number of different people than me," Orr told radio station WWJ on Wednesday.

But the reality, he added, is inescapable: "The city has no cash on hand to pay the magnitude of the debt we have."

The narrow issue for the judge was whether Detroit met key steps to be eligible to stay in bankruptcy court and extinguish its debt.

Rhodes surprised many by declaring public pensions are like any contract that can be broken in bankruptcy, even if states have protected them in their constitutions.

His opinion isn't binding in any other case, but it at least cracks the door open for local governments or bankruptcy judges grappling with pensions elsewhere in the U.S.

At least six states besides Michigan have some constitutional protections, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

"He took a step further than anyone has yet. But it's just a judge who is applying federal law and giving his opinion," said Michael Sweet, a bankruptcy attorney who has advised local governments in California.

He believes Rhodes' message has a pragmatic purpose for Detroit and lawyers representing pensioners: Get talking.

Detroit Retirees Need To See the BOOKS and CANCELLED CHECKS to find out exactly where every PENNY of their money went!

The "bigs" are waiting to see if this heist is successful. If it is, there will be a rash of lost or stolen pension funds and a redistribution of wealth.

 

California GOP creates fake health care
website to discourage constituents from
obtaining insurance

Dec. 2, 2013--California Republicans are getting desperate and shameless, not to mention just plain ugly. These are not the Republicans of my parents.

I don’t believe it. 
Are you people really that stupid? 
Did you really think no one would find out?

And let’s not forget.

Hell no.

In the past two weeks, GOP Assembly members have sent mailings out on what appears to be the state's dime to their constituents about health insurance.

Look, dear...this came in the mail.

Only, they don't direct those people to CoveredCA.com to sign up.

Hmm...something smells fishy.

Instead, they send them to their own astroturf version with the url CoveringHealthCareCA.com.

Oh, it’s about the President’s Health Care Plan.

On their version, there are links to negative articles and twisted messages intended to sour people on signing up for health insurance before they ever land at the official health exchange site.

These links don’t work right and the whole experience is souring me!

Drats! A fake health care site!

Foiled again.

There ought to be a law!

There probably is!

A fake health care site intended to discourage the people on their own mailing lists from getting health insurance because fuck them, that's why.

It isn’t my colorful language this time...but, excellent use of the verb, agree?    

If you click on the "Don't have health insurance" tab on the front page, you're taken to a page that puts all the focus on the penalty and none on the benefits.

In fact, they have a "penalty calculator" on that page, rather than a premium calculator.

Other bits of logic include explaining to young people that by getting insurance they'll be subsidizing sick people, the goddamn leeching bastards.

Oh dear! My virgin ears! NOT!

On the other hand, if you cannot grasp that the central point of all insurance is pooling a little money from a large group of people in order to insure some level of security for those people in the pool that have something very bad happen to them, including for example you, perhaps removing you from the gene pool is not entirely a bad thing.

Moi? I hate that example. Reconfigure, please.

If you are so nasty a person that you can't live with the thought of insuring yourself because it means some other person might get healthcare using one one hundredth of a cent of your money, the world will certainly not be missing you much after you are gone.

Godspeed!

This is yet another of the reasons the current incarnation of the Republican Party is little more than a political oozing sore.

Yuck! But nice use of a metaphor.

There is probably a downside to trying to kill off your own voters to score a momentary political point, but let's just say the members of the party brain trust in my state could meet in a closet and still have enough room for the vacuum and boxes of Christmas decorations.

Memo Outlines House GOP's
Plan Of Attack Against Obamacare

By Tom Kludt

November 21, 2013--A memo circulated among House Republicans this week details the GOP's plan to relentlessly attack the Affordable Care Act over the course of the next several months, the New York Times reported.

The memo contains a number of talking points that echo some of the GOP's most dire warnings about the health care law.

"Because of Obamacare, I Lost My Insurance.” reads one.

“The Exchanges May Not Be Secure, Putting Personal Information at Risk,” reads another.

According to the Times, GOP strategists intend to use the next several months to "gather stories of people affected by the health care law—through social media, letters from constituents, or meetings during visits back home—and use them to open a line of attack, keep it going until it enters the public discourse and forces a response, then quickly pivot to the next topic."

What a disgrace!

Every last Republican enjoys health care insurance at the expense of Americans who don’t have it.

Thanks to President Obama many of these people are enjoying health care insurance for the first time.

How can we forget the image of endless lines of humanity waiting to see a doctor, many for the first time in years.

No. Not in Somalia or the depths of South America.

These lines were here in the States!

These Health Fairs took place in several parts of the country. It was sobering...IF YOU HAVE A HEART!

How could the stiff-necked Republicans be so cruel?

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 “In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.”
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People Beat Each Other Up
Over...
Towels!
At Walmart On Black Friday...

Walmart advertised low, low prices on TVs, laptops and kitchenware,
but
the store's best-selling item was ...
Towels!

And you should have seen the holiday spirit!
Gotta get out there early..
.
Towels!
Must have towels!
Need Towels!

Walmart released 2.8 Million Towels
Friday

Oh, there were 2 million TVs, 1.4 million tablets
and 1.9 million dolls

BUT,
THE TOWELS!

Towels were driving shoppers CRAZY!
CUSTOMERS GOT VIOLENT!

(Walmart shoppers
don’t need much to go to the dark side.)

And it looks like West Memphis, Arkansas is the winner!
with the most uncivilized behavior for this
HOLIDAY SEASON!

CONGRATULATIONS, WEST MEMPHIS!!
WAY TO GO!

Oh, and Merry Christmas!

Keep dry with your hard-fought for Cheap Towels!
(That blood should come out in the wash.)

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Don't Let Them Steal Our
SOCIAL SECURITY!
Social Security has not
added a red cent to the deficit.
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Meet the millionaires of Congress: Calif. Rep. Darrell Issa ranked wealthiest with $355 million leaving N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand listed as 'barely in the black' with only $166k

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa topped The Hill's list

Hey Darrell!
Stealing autos has been very, very good to you, eh?
Kinda gave you your start.

of the wealthiest members of Congress with a fortune of $355 million to his name. With multimillionaires among the lawmakers walking the gilded halls of power, it leaves others like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., labeled "as barely in the black" with a net worth of $166,000.

Yikes!
Senator Gillibrand! Are we going to be forced to hold a fund drive for you? 

Issa, a California congressman, has a net worth that far exceeds even the second richest Capitol inhabitant, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, whose wife Linda is the heiress to the Clear Channel Communications fortune.

So, Rep. McCaul doesn’t have to pick fruit from the money tree that attracts so many of our Congressmen?

McCaul has a net worth of $101 million, according to the newspaper's list of 50 top earners in Congress.

No hot dawgs for Congressman McCaul, eh?

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the former Virginia governor and Nextel co-founder, came third with $88.5 million.

Sorry, Senator...That’s chump change.

Other “prosperous” politicians include Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., with $24.4 million and Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., with $15.2 million.

ooo, ooo...I know how Nancy spends her loot! Pearls! Rooms and rooms full of pearls...ceiling to floor...pearls! All sizes...all shapes...all colors!

The GOP nabbed slightly more top earners than their liberal counterparts, with 29 Republicans versus 21 Democrats.

Crap! Dems...can’t you beat them at anything?

The House, with 435 members, also boasts more affluence with 37 on the list serving as representatives and only 13 coming from the Senate.

There you have it! That’s why they are so understanding of how the little people live...What their concerns are...You know, what it’s like for the masses.

Many congressmen who earn considerable news coverage aren't necessarily bringing in the greenbacks.

They aren't?

Likely contenders for the GOP presidential nomination Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, and Marco Rubio, of Florida, are among Congress' paupers.

Paupers? If they get to be president will they get rich?

Paul failed to make the list with a net worth of $455,000 while Rubio actually has a negative net worth of an estimated $190,000.

Marco...get a new accountant...you too, Rand...Is Rand short for Randall?

Of the other Republican starlets, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has a net worth of $2.3 million and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reported assets of $1.5 million

Do these guys start off rich or do they get rich once they get to Congress?

Of course that's not counting Issa. We know how he got rich. Wink, Wink
.
The Hill reviews financial forms provided by members of Congress from 2012 to compile its ranking, saying the numbers are likely "conservative estimates of a lawmaker's worth."

Yeah...Conservative.

                                                           larson@nydailynews.com

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Keystone XL 

It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty "tar sands" oil from Canada thru the USA every day.

The oil in the Keystone pipeline could poison drinking water, threaten the communities it runs through, and wreck the climate.

But there's good news: the Keystone XL pipeline cannot be built without a "presidential permit" from the Obama Administration.

Let's turn up the pressure to make sure President Obama rejects the pipeline.

The clock is ticking: the State Department has said it will make a final decision on whether or not to issue a presidential permit deeming the pipeline in our "national interest" by the end of this year.

We know more pollution and more climate change are not in any nation's interest, so we’re calling on President Obama to step up and display the kind of leadership necessary.

Tell President Obama:

"The tar sands represent a catastrophic threat to our communities, our climate, and our planet. 

We urge you to demonstrate real climate leadership by rejecting the requested permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and instead focus on developing safe, clean energy."

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