POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby pacino » Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:31:54

SK790 wrote:
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SK790 wrote:So there's a bunch of scary things going on in the Ukraine, huh?

and Vitaly Klitschko is one of the opposition leaders. Crazy stuff, 3 dead in current protests.

h/t top occasional BSGer Wiz for RTing this, but they're literally using molotov #$!&@...

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they made it illegal for protestors to wear helmets. wtf
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby SK790 » Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:47:42

"disrespect in court" is up to 15 days in jail.
you apparently can't put up tents or a stage without government approval

fuck the homeland
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Wed Jan 22, 2014 14:24:52

CFP wrote:Can anyone explain why McDonnell's Twitter account is just a bunch of Terry McAuliffe retweets?

Because those are RTs of the @GovernorVA account, which wasn't McAuliffe when those RTs happened.

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Youseff » Wed Jan 22, 2014 21:26:09

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in New Yorker magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.

“Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president,”


which leads to the following headlines:

Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval,


Obama blames low approval numbers on racism


President Obama Says Some Critics Don't Like Him Because He's Black


Obama blames skin color for tanking approval ratings


plus lots of Republican thought leaders saying way worse stuff. plus, of course, the insanity of the comments section.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Monkeyboy » Thu Jan 23, 2014 04:16:57

nuance is dead.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Monkeyboy » Thu Jan 23, 2014 04:29:56

Uh-oh, now it's getting interesting....

Federal authorities in New Jersey have interviewed several witnesses who said the mayor of Hoboken told them in May about a state official’s threat to withhold hurricane recovery funds if the mayor did not support a development project favored by the governor, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

The statements by the witnesses, two of whom are aides to the mayor, Dawn Zimmer, support the account she gave to federal prosecutors on Sunday, and the interviews suggest that prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have moved swiftly to investigate her accusations.


I was beginning to feel like much of this was just smoke that Christie could escape from and may even make him stronger in the long run. If there are other witnesses months before the bridge scandal, then the whole thing changes.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:45:51

Man that would be great.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby TenuredVulture » Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:17:12

Still though, if the witnesses are all allies of Dawn Zimmer, it's not exactly like they all haven't had ample opportunity to get their story straight. I suppose it's not spectacularly easy to get a bunch of people to commit perjury, but this is NJ politics.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:37:31

Well this is an interesting day here in Richmond.

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Phan In Phlorida » Thu Jan 23, 2014 17:46:57

A second toxic chemical may also have contaminated West Virginia's Elk River during the chemical spill earlier this month

Freedom Industries didn't disclose the chemical until Wednesday, after it was ordered to do so by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

“Having this revelation so late in the game is completely unacceptable,” WVDEP Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman said earlier today. “We have ordered Freedom to reveal any other information they have regarding the contents of the tank that leaked.”

“Having to order them to provide such obvious information is indicative of the continued decline of their credibility,” Huffman said.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Jan 23, 2014 18:59:30

Big day for New Jersey. The leaks discussed above + the US Attorney subpoenaing things from the Christie campaign, and our erstwhile senior Senator is under FBI investigation (again) - this time for allegedly aiding Ecuadorian businessmen.

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Thu Jan 23, 2014 19:18:08

jerseyhoya wrote:Big day for New Jersey. The leaks discussed above + the US Attorney subpoenaing things from the Christie campaign, and our erstwhile senior Senator is under FBI investigation (again) - this time for allegedly aiding Ecuadorian businessmen.

Good. Fuck Menendez after the shit he's pulling with the Iran sanctions.

Hope their ships go down within eye sight of each other.
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Monkeyboy » Thu Jan 23, 2014 20:03:21

Come on, you know Christie would just float like a giant barge.


lol, he's fat
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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Jan 23, 2014 20:23:44

Report: FBI Investigating Menendez for Efforts on Behalf of Fugitive Ecuadorian Bankers

TL;DW version - Two Ecuadorian bankers allegedly stole like 100 million dollars from their collapsing bank and fled to Florida. We don't like the Ecuadorian government, and they aren't big on extraditing people to us, so have been reluctant to extradite them. They want permanent residence, but the government has also been reluctant to take that step. Menendez has written repeatedly to State and Homeland Security about their case. Their family members who are citizens gave $10,000+ to his campaign and over $100,000 to the national Dem party.

Sounds a lot like his stuff with Melgen. Menendez really has a thing for Hispanic immigrants in Florida who are criminals and major Dem donors.

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Bucky » Thu Jan 23, 2014 22:08:48

boy this bill oreilly is an insufferable POS, more so each day

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby CalvinBall » Thu Jan 23, 2014 23:18:35

Bucky wrote:boy this bill oreilly is an insufferable POS, more so each day


What he do now?

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Bucky » Thu Jan 23, 2014 23:24:56

just oreilly being oreilly. i'm only subject to him once a week when i visit my mom, but tonight he was beating down o-care and said something like 'it's fact, if o-care fails at the end of 2014 this administration is done'. the 'ol fox news thing of 'if we will something to be true it will then be truth'

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby pacino » Fri Jan 24, 2014 09:08:06

Mike Huckabee wrote: “Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without 'Uncle Sugar' coming in and for providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government - then so be it," Huckabee said at the RNC's winter meeting in Washington, D.C. "Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats will play them to be



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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby Bucky » Fri Jan 24, 2014 09:14:47

holy cow, thought i was in teh reading threat

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Re: POLITICS thread: In appreciation of Rob Ford

Postby pacino » Fri Jan 24, 2014 09:23:49

fwiw, that was part of a prepared speech
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