swishnicholson wrote:FFS, here I thought Kelly might be one of the few adults in the White House with some common sense, and he's just as loony as the rest of them.

Bucky wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:FFS, here I thought Kelly might be one of the few adults in the White House with some common sense, and he's just as loony as the rest of them.

something specific spark this or just your run-of-the-mill epiphany??

swishnicholson wrote:

Bucky wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:FFS, here I thought Kelly might be one of the few adults in the White House with some common sense, and he's just as loony as the rest of them.

something specific spark this or just your run-of-the-mill epiphany??

I'm late to the game, but was flipping through the channels and came across him hyperventilating on how women were once "sacred" (along with everything else we've lost since the good old days). Along with just the plain weirdness of how he could say this with a straight face given who his boss is, it gave me a fearful shiver that not only couldn't he differentiate between sacredness and paternalistic oppression, but that he ever thought there was a time when women could go where they want, when they want without fear, for they were protected by this aura of reverence. I have a feeling he believes it, but also somehow that anything bad that happened to women was becasue they ventured somewhere they didn't belong.

slugsrbad wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

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Not only did Putin add me to the Interpol list, but the US simultaneously revoked my visa.

Hmm...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/45 ... ed-america

Werthless wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:

Bucky wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:FFS, here I thought Kelly might be one of the few adults in the White House with some common sense, and he's just as loony as the rest of them.

something specific spark this or just your run-of-the-mill epiphany??

I'm late to the game, but was flipping through the channels and came across him hyperventilating on how women were once "sacred" (along with everything else we've lost since the good old days). Along with just the plain weirdness of how he could say this with a straight face given who his boss is, it gave me a fearful shiver that not only couldn't he differentiate between sacredness and paternalistic oppression, but that he ever thought there was a time when women could go where they want, when they want without fear, for they were protected by this aura of reverence. I have a feeling he believes it, but also somehow that anything bad that happened to women was becasue they ventured somewhere they didn't belong.

Right after he gets my endorsement as the adult in the room, he goes and does something like this. Totally reveals himself.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature on Monday began what could be a long week as lawmakers worked again to try to end a four-month budget standoff with big borrowing and gambling expansion packages to backfill a projected $2.2 billion deficit.

The Senate appeared ready to submit to a House budget-balancing plan that fell well short of what Senate leaders and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf had sought.

The House plan, passed last week, contains a grab bag of tax increases that is projected to yield as much as $140 million in a full year but perhaps as little as $60 million. That is a small fraction of the $500 million-plus tax package the Senate had passed in July in an effort to help wipe out Pennsylvania's entrenched post-recession deficit.

The House's budget bill is built around borrowing $1.5 billion against Pennsylvania's share of a 1998 multistate tobacco settlement. With interest, payback likely would cost more than $2 billion over 20 years. The Senate had earlier approved a slightly smaller borrowing package, $1.25 billion.

A vote on the bill could happen as early as Wednesday, and it leaves the question about whether state government will have to confront another substantial deficit in the 2018 election year.

Public finance analysts generally regard borrowing to pay operating costs as bad fiscal practice and a last resort.

The House was set to return Tuesday, with a debate looming this week on legislation opposed by the chamber's GOP leaders to impose a tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas production. Wolf has urged the House to pass it, while the Senate passed its own version of a Marcellus Shale tax in its budget package in July.

Meanwhile, the Senate is eyeing legislation to authorize a big expansion of casino-style gambling in a quest for millions more dollars from license fees and taxes on gambling losses.

pacino wrote:2 person Montana firm gets biggest contract to turn on Puerto Rico's power

thephan wrote:

pacino wrote:2 person Montana firm gets biggest contract to turn on Puerto Rico's power

You go out to the site and there are two points of contact that have email addresses of ldwwgroup.com, which turns out to be a marketing firm. I don't have time to dig around, but clearly this is super sketchy.

“The fact that there are so many utilities with experience in this and a huge track record of helping each other out, it is at least odd why [the utility] would go to Whitefish,” said Susan F. Tierney, a former senior official at the Energy Department and state regulatory agencies. “I’m scratching my head wondering how it all adds up.”

Whitefish Energy is based in Whitefish, Mont., the home town of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Its chief executive, Andy Techmanski, and Zinke acknowledge knowing one another — but only, Zinke’s office said in an email, because Whitefish is a small town where “everybody knows everybody.” One of Zinke’s sons “joined a friend who worked a summer job” at one of Techmanski’s construction sites, the email said. Whitefish said he worked as a “flagger.”

Zinke’s office said he had no role in Whitefish securing the contract for work in Puerto Rico. Techmanski also said Zinke was not involved.

NBC Montana quoted Techmanski in a report Oct. 1 as saying he had asked Zinke for help in getting personnel and equipment to the territory. Chiames, the Whitefish spokesman, confirmed that “Once the company got the go-ahead from PREPA on September 26 to begin work, company executives did reach out to contacts in case they could help expedite getting qualified linesmen to the island.”

Donald Trump wrote:Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn't get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts....

Donald Trump wrote:...Corker dropped out of the race in Tennesse when I refused to endorse him, and now is only negative on anything Trump. Look at his record!

Senator Bob Corker wrote:Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. #AlertTheDaycareStaff

pacino wrote:this is our life

Monkeyboy wrote:assuming we survive, you really have to wonder how much damage this is doing to the office of the president and to government in general. I'm not talking about policy or scandals, just the damage to the institutions. How do you walk back this level of craziness? Everything will be on the table now and people will just say, "Well, he/she isn't as bad as Trump," or, "At least he/she didn't do x,y,z like Trump did." Being a banana republic is now normal.

Putin must be sitting in his office with a bowl of popcorn, laughing his ass off.