all swedes are racist Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 13 minutes ago, Free Northman Reborn said: I far prefer Dean Koontz anyway to that weirdo. lol http://www.worldcat.org/title/thirteen-and-ready/oclc/656273895 https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/ann-griffin-dean-koontz/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 but, in all seriousness... http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN19431H um, hey, no big deal at all. who really wants civilian oversight of the military anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkerX Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Might be interesting to see if this goes anywhere. The sheer number of congress people involved is telling. Maybe a few Republicans will jump on board. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nearly-200-lawmakers-to-sue-trump-citing-business-conflicts/ar-BBCElJF?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580 Nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress said they would file a lawsuit against President Trump on Wednesday morning alleging that his continued ties to his business empire violate the U.S. Constitution. The unprecedented legal action will accuse Trump of violating the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits federal officials from accepting gifts or titles from foreign governments without congressional approval, according to lawmakers leading the effort. The lawsuit will have the greatest number of congressional plaintiffs of any lawsuit against the president in the nation’s history, according to Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the House Judiciary Committee’s top-ranking Democrat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isalie Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 5 hours ago, Free Northman Reborn said: I far prefer Dean Koontz anyway to that weirdo. Pfff, Stephen King is great at times. Also, it is no surprise of course, considering how amped up the climate is, but it seems really weird to me to side with Trump on a thing like this. I know he's seemingly narcissistic and deluded to the point that his view of reality should be used as an pro-pomo argument in the pomo thread, but don't you expect your leader to be able to brush off a harmless comment like that? If he can't take that kind off joke without censoring it, what kind of negative information is he ever presented with? I get that people can have very different views on how society should function from mine, and I think that the way the us politics threads shuts down any dissenters is sad(!), both because we seem to be heading for the next big revolution and right now the 1% is happy to watch the 99% infight for crumbs, but also because it would be nice to hear the arguments for stuff like deregulation and private health care. What I don't get though, is how anyone can look at Trump's complete lack of grace, dignity, self control, accountability and so on and not ditch him, solely because of those reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGimletEye Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Shillin' for Trump https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/12/15782092/fire-robert-mueller Quote The appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to serve as special counsel investigating matters related to Russia and the 2016 presidential campaign served to effectively quell the firestorm of criticism launched by Donald Trump's decision to fire Mueller’s successor at the FBI. But what if Trump fires Mueller, too, as is his right under the law? That’s exactly what a growing chorus of voices in pro-Trump media are arguing that he should do, with former House Speaker and leading Trump sycophant Newt Gingrich leading the charge. Another chapter in Conservative Disasters. (Or you did a heckuva job Brownback!) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/14/these-are-the-people-who-suffered-when-kansas-conservative-experiment-failed/ Quote It also exempted small-business income from taxation entirely — creating what analysts described as a pernicious loophole when individuals started representing themselves as small businesses to qualify. Quote Dan Rickman, an economist at Oklahoma State University who created an index to measure states with similar economies, says that Kansas was performing in step with other similar states before Brownback took office. But after the tax cuts were implemented, it began to lag. And Today's Daily Full Employment Democrat: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-13/the-fed-s-unspoken-mandate Quote The U.S. Federal Reserve’s two main goals are to promote maximum employment and keep inflation close to 2 percent. But it also acts as if it has another, unspoken mandate: Don’t do anything too radical in pursuit of those goals. This allegiance to what’s considered “normal” harms a lot of people, black Americans in particular. Quote Who gains from the Fed’s unspoken mandate? Well, it’s good for banks and other investors in long-term bonds, because it dampens interest-rate changes that would otherwise make the prices of those bonds highly volatile. But most Americans lose from the unspoken mandate, because they experience more volatility in employment and prices than they otherwise would. Blacks are among the hardest hit, because their unemployment rate tends to increase a lot more than those of other groups during recessions. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-13/fed-should-hold-fast-in-face-of-looser-financial-conditions Quote The recent inflation data doesn't exactly support the Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening plans. Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues will surely take note of the weakness at this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, but they will downplay any such concerns as transitory. At the moment, low unemployment remains the focus. Add to that loosening financial conditions and you get a central bank that is more likely than not to stay the course on its plan to hike interest rates. On first glance, the Fed has reason to believe that their estimate of full employment remains too high. If the economy is indeed at full employment, we would expect accelerating wage growth. Instead, wage growth remains anemic by a variety of measures. Relevant: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13245.pdf Quote In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of the post-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate a stylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during “normal times” (that is, in response to small or transitory shocks) but drops markedly in the wake of a large and persistent aggregate demand shock. Finally, we show that these considerations can have potentially crucial implications for the design of monetary policy, especially under circumstances in which adjustments to the short-term interest rate are constrained by the zero lower bound. http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/time-for-the-fed-to-look-beyond-2-percent-target-inflation/ Quote If insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting new results, then perhaps it’s insane to expect the Federal Reserve to wait for inflation to hit the U.S. central bank’s inflation target of 2 percent before tightening monetary policy. With no serious sign that inflation is accelerating, the Fed seems ready to hike interest rates. Only once in almost five years has inflation cracked that level—set by the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC—for a single month. (see Figure 1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 FUCK!! Quote Multiple people were shot Wednesday morning in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, NBC News has confirmed. The shooting happened in the 400 block of E. Monroe Street. It's not clear how many people were injured, but police are calling the incident a "multiple shooting." Scalise, R-La., was among those shot, NBC News confirmed. Police say the victims are being transported to the hospital. An apparent witness to the event, Benjamin Childers, wrote on Twitter that someone opened fire on a baseball field where congressional Republicans were practicing and he heard many shots. “We had three members of Congress take shelter in our apartment,” he said on a live stream, as sounds of emergency vehicles could be heard. “The three weren’t shot.” NBC was reaching out to him for comment. A baseball game was scheduled for Thursday, according to Roll Call. http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Alexandria-Police-on-Scene-of-Shooting-in-Del-Ray-428383133.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 There's been a shooting at the congressional GOP practice for the congressional baseball game tomorrow. Early reports are that Steve Scalise, three capital police officers, and a House aide were shot; and that the shooter was then shot by capital police. The suspect was described as "a middle-aged white guy" who shortly beforehand had asked if the congressional members were Democrats or Republicans. That's according to Mo Brooks; who apparently used his belt as a tourniquet to stop Scalise's bleeding. ETA: Seems that the shooter was not killed though. Also haven't heard if any of the injuries are fatal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cas Stark Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 9 minutes ago, Fez said: There's been a shooting at the congressional GOP practice for the congressional baseball game tomorrow. Early reports are that Steve Scalise, three capital police officers, and a House aide were shot; and that the shooter was then shot by capital police. The suspect was described as "a middle-aged white guy" who shortly beforehand had asked if the congressional members were Democrats or Republicans. That's according to Mo Brooks; who apparently used his belt as a tourniquet to stop Scalise's bleeding. ETA: Seems that the shooter was not killed though. Also haven't heard if any of the injuries are fatal. So, if it's true he asked their party affiliation before opening fire, that makes him a domestic terrorist and this is an attempted assassiation event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 16 minutes ago, Nasty LongRider said: FUCK!! http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Alexandria-Police-on-Scene-of-Shooting-in-Del-Ray-428383133.html This could be fairly terrifying. What the hell will they do in response? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: This could be fairly terrifying. What the hell will they do in response? The incident is terrifying and the response? The possibilities are also very scary indeed. The shooter was arrested alive apparently, which is good, perhaps his motives will known soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbigski Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: This could be fairly terrifying. What the hell will they do in response? Shoot back and drop the perp? Which already happened. Unless you're expecting the other Reichstag to drop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Nasty LongRider said: The incident is terrifying and the response? The possibilities are also very scary indeed. The shooter was arrested alive apparently, which is good, perhaps his motives will known soon. Yes. Both. Someone doing this is terrifying. What could be done in response to the attack is terrifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, mcbigski said: Shoot back and drop the perp? Which already happened. Unless you're expecting the other Reichstag to drop? The thought has occurred to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Cas Stark said: So, if it's true he asked their party affiliation before opening fire, that makes him a domestic terrorist and this is an attempted assassiation event. I got the member wrong, it was DeSantis who apparently said it, not Brooks. Also, as Rand Paul points out: Quote Rep. Rand Paul of Kentucky talked to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, and told them he heard 50 or 60 shots. He said he could see the shooter “way in the distance.” “Everyone probably would have died” without the presence of Capitol Police, who ere there because Scalise is a member of leadership. “By him [Scalise] being there, he probably saved everyone else’s life.” He continued about Capitol Police: “Had they not been there, it would have been a massacre. … We had no weapons and no place to hide.” Its bad enough as is; but if Scalise and his security detail hadn't been there, this would've been so much worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: The thought has occurred to me. Yes, my stomach is in my throat right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Did this just happen within the last half hour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Here comes the "violent Dems normalizing violence" narrative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: Did this just happen within the last half hour? 7:15am eastern reportedly; though it took a little while for news to break. The shooting happened at a park down in Alexandria, VA which is about 15 minutes south of DC itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 7 minutes ago, Relic said: Here comes the "violent Dems normalizing violence" narrative. Relic, You are thinking far too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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