It’s super-flooded in my neck of the woods. Here’s an ramp off I-275 in Tampa, which now exits into a freakin’ lake:
[Photo courtesy Bay News 9]In my little town, the ditches, culverts and gutters are full, yards are soggy and some streets are flooded, but it’s way worse in other places. We’ll see what happens at high tide later today.
Thankfully, the rain appears to be tapering off. Open thread!
PaulW
It’s stopped raining in Central Polk County, for now…
That photo of the I-275 off-ramp… is that Westshore?!
RaflW
Nothin’ to look at. It’s just weather, can’t be climate change. (Though if it was snowing in February in the upper midwest, that would be clear proof of the bogusness of climate change).
I mean, I do get that weather incidents are not, individually, confirmation or refutation. But I believe we are moving from the stage where the climate folks have been saying that the weather will get more extreme, to actually seeing the weather get more extreme.
Also, too, your pic reminds me of Houston not long ago. All y’all really should be moving inland/uphill already, if I may be so bold as to suggest what another person should do. (eta: I mean move as in pack, sell to some Republican sucker, and move out of that swamp)
JPL
I was hoping that we’d hear from you. Glad you and the chickens are doing okay.
shell
Too bad weather cant be rationed or parceled out. Wish we could send some of this to California.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
All that extra rain that the East Coast and Midwest is getting is what would normally be falling on Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, but the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge over Alaska is redirecting it to you guys:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridiculously_Resilient_Ridge
japa21
How is the Ark coming along?
James E Powell
When I woke up this morning, CNN was pumping the Biden for president story. If Biden’s people aren’t the ones pushing this, who is?
Is it just another “Let’s mess with Hillary” story?
RaflW
Any comment from the reptile from planet Gorgotron? (aka your governor?)
Punchy
High Tide, eh? That’s All you got? I’ll Cheer the first person to Wisk away all that water, but with the Surf bringing in more, probably a fool’s errand. You’d Gain by having better sewer systems, but all the Xtra money that would cost would be hard to come by.
RaflW
@James E Powell: I posted the latest NYT Biden crapola on the last thread. One does wonder, but I think it’s the media bosses wanting to take focus off Trumpnado just a tad and maybe to create some ‘heat’ for the Democratic landslide-snooze.
Mustang Bobby
According to this chart, Miami-Dade, Broward (Ft. Lauderdale), and Palm Beach Counties are still under severe or extreme drought conditions as recently as last week even though it’s been raining like it’s the normal rainy season. Huh.
boatboy_srq
@RaflW: @BC@Top: One more reason I fled when I could (seven named storms in two years was another, and there were plenty more). There are photos of Ybor that aren’t so hip-deep fugly, but still not fun imagery.
Roger Moore
@James E Powell:
I assume so. It’s more like a “we want anybody but Hillary, so we assume everybody else feels the same way” story.
rikyrah
scary water
RaflW
@Mustang Bobby: If you click on the previous week, you can see some improvement around that area and far NE Florida. Not a ton. We’ll have to see what the Aug 6 map looks like.
Amir Khalid
@RaflW:
I will believe Joe Biden is running in 2016 when I hear it from Joe himself. Not before.
Bobby B.
In my Oregon valley we’re surrounded a flood of fire smoke and that’s the only flooding you’re going to see here until December.
Germy Shoemangler
The New Yorker is playing the same game. On the front page is a Cassidy article and a photo of Biden, with the headline A SERIOUS CONTENDER.
When you click on the link, the headline instead asks WHY BIDEN WOULD BE A SERIOUS CONTENDER.
The actual title of the article is
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/joe-bidens-big-decision
WILL JOE BIDEN DECIDE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT?
scav
@James E Powell: I’m near to thinking they need to have more options on the Dem side to run so they can continue with their “BothSidesDoIt” default narrative. Maybe they rather enjoy picking on Biden because they figure they can pick up some easy quotes a la TRumpter — the circuses must be equivalent because otherwise their neuron get’s overtaxed.
dmsilev
Word to the wise: If Ted Cruz ever invites you to join him for breakfast, don’t forget to wear your bulletproof vest.
Omnes Omnibus
@James E Powell: I think it is just a way to mess with HRC
burnspbesq
Haven’t seen much mention of it, but AP reported that one of the victims of the Jerusalem pride parade stabbings (a 16-year-old girl) died on Sunday. Maybe now the prosecutors will ramp up the charges and put this guy away for good.
RaflW
@dmsilev: The circuses must be Broderianly equivalent because otherwise the GOP is even more obviously unfit. And that cannot be stomached (though Kthug is having a bit of fun with that today).
RaflW
@burnspbesq: Dang. What a freaking terrible person. Quite possibly deranged, and I don’t mean that hyperbolically, but as in criminally insane. Lifetime lockup seems the only way to prevent further tragedy.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Paul Waldman on the Biden rumors
Which he explains with the history of Biden’s first two runs, which analysis I tend to agree with. And the whole “Beau Biden’s dying wish” stuff… I find it more than a little creepy and intrusive
(I turned on MSNBC to see if Obama was still talking about climate, and I got the smug mug of Luke Russet. I’m sure the one-two punch of Little Lord Luckysperm and Chuck Todd will create a ratings juggernaut not seen since Cop Rock followed The Manimal.)
Betty Cracker
@PaulW: Yep, Westshore. It’s not quite so floody as Dale Mabry-Henderson, but that’s about as bad as I’ve seen it since the 2004 hurricane close calls. I hear Pasco is way worse.
@burnspbesq: I saw that too, incredibly sad. I wonder if the twisted piece of shit attacker was targeting females? In any case, yes, lock the vile shit-stain up and throw away the key.
Alison
Hey, tech people, I have a question.
My mom got a spam email this morning from some random spammy email address, but with my first and last name as the sender. So in the From field, it said
She’s worried about how they would pull names from her contacts…is this something she needs to be concerned about? Like, a virus or something? She definitely didn’t click anything in the email, but she’s just worried about how it happened, and I’m not sure myself.
Gin & Tonic
@Alison: Happens all the time. Don’t worry about it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
She’s still a bit stiff and awkward, but this is a very different person from 2008
prufrock
@Betty Cracker: I’ve lived at my house in Largo for ten years (and Pinellas County since my birth 44 years ago). I can’t remember a wetter summer. My neighborhood isn’t flooded, but my front lawn has never been soft like it is now.
Roger Moore
@Alison:
It’s possible that their random name generator just happened to spit out your name. If they were actually pulling stuff out of her contacts list, you’d think they’d spoof your email address, too, so it would be more believable.
geg6
@James E Powell:
@RaflW:
I read somewhere over the weekend that this is being pushed by a lot of GOPers. For which, of course, the Village is wired.
shell
@dmsilev: Really. 20 years ago this would have been an obvious joke.
Ted Cruz teaches America how to make ‘machine-gun bacon’
Thats exactly what it sounds like.
GOP candidates are now nothing but sideshow geeks, one step away biting heads off chickens. And thats a very small step.
RaflW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I agree that the delivery is stilted. But I am very glad to see that Secretary Clinton is not trying to be some centrist waffle. I’m sure a few pundits will faint, but this is exactly what is needed.
Between bucket Obama and this version of Clinton, I’m starting to feel a bit excited for the fight.
Gimlet
“At the national level, who deserves a punch in the face?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the New Jersey governor during an interview. The question was a callback, he said, to Christie’s affinity for saying during his first term that “you can either sidle up to [bullies] or you can punch them in the face.”
“The national teachers union, whose already endorsed Hillary Clinton, 16, 17 months before the election,” Christie replied.
Christie was ostensibly referring to the American Federation of Teachers — the second largest teachers union in the country — which endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in July.
“They’re not for education for our children,” he said. “They’re for greater membership, greater benefits, greater pay for their members. And they are the single most destructive force in public education in America.”
zmulls
I think the Biden story is a combination of the media’s incomprehensible hatred of the Clintons, and the media’s boredom with the Dem side of the Presidential campaign. It’s boring if Hilary has it all locked up so they have to make up stuff that’s more interesting to them.
And I agree that “Biden had a conversation about running” with someone is pretty much not news. He’s run twice, he’s the Vice President, this would be his last shot — OF COURSE IT’S CROSSED HIS MIND. But talking about it, and Talking About IT, are two different things.
It occurred to me two months ago that if Hilary were to seriously stumble — become obviously vulnerable — there weren’t too many people who could step up and be a contender. Not sold on O’Malley (based on David Simon’s writings) or Webb, and I love me some Bernie Sanders but not sure how he’d fare in the General against someone the Villagers like.
But Biden….Biden would be the obvious guy if it looked like Hilary wouldn’t go the distance. I am not sold on the common image of Biden in the press. They like to treat him like a buffoon. But this is a guy who was both Foreign Relations Chairman and Judiciary Chairman (two of the most sought-after committees). He thinks outside the box (I didn’t think his idea of trifercating Iraq early on was a bad one — it might have been the right idea at the time, longterm).
He’s a thoughtful, intelligent, experienced and very human candidate, and he’d have my vote if he were to seriously run. But (again, like the above) I won’t believe he’s really running unless he says so.
If you want a really great look at Biden, read the Biden chapters in Richard Ben Cramer’s “What it Takes” — I got a really great sense from that book in terms of what he is made of, and I’d be proud to vote for him for President.
Here’s an excerpt from What It Takes — it’s the first Biden chapter. This is about his early life, as a kid, so it’s only part of the mosaic, but hopefully reading this will convince you to buy the book and read the whole thing.
Oh, and here’s an appreciation of What It Takes from when the author died…there’s a really nice Biden observation in the article.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/what-i-learned-from-richard-ben-cramer/266938/
burnspbesq
So now even Stan Collender is betting that there will be a gubmint shutdown over the trumped-up nonsense involving Planned Parenthood doing exactly what Mitch McConnell voted to allow it to do. Great. Just fucking great.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2015/08/03/chance-of-a-government-shutdown-rises-to-60/
RaflW
@Gimlet: Republicans hate teachers unions. Film at 11.
Alison
@Gin & Tonic: Yeah, I figured as much. I hate spammers.
Mustang Bobby
@Alison: I found out that it had latched onto my e-mail addresses — both obtained through GoDaddy — and sent out a bunch of spam under my name and had overflowed my outbox to the point that I couldn’t send anything. I changed my password and problem solved.
I also got a bunch from people I know only through Facebook.
geg6
We could use a little of that rain here, Betty.
Meanwhile, Lovey has now chewed through her fourth harness.
burnspbesq
@RaflW:
I assume that Israeli law is different, but I don’t consider him insane under any of the tests currently in use in any U.S. jurisdiction. I am highly confident that he knew exactly what he was doing, and intended to do it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RaflW: Not just Republicans. Hating teachers’ unions is as an essential step in a young Villagers growth into a Very Serious Person
terraformer
Get out now, while you can. I grew up in FL and have come to hate it there. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great place to visit, but between the heat, imminent water shortages, “stand your ground” laws, and general dickishness exhibited by many people based on the above, you couldn’t pay me enough to live there.
Now I lived on the east side, and the west side (Gulf) is much nicer and calmer in terms of the maritime activities, but the continual hits on the service economy that pretty much makes up most of the state makes it very difficult to live there and be successful unless you already are when you arrive, or have a gazillion dollars to live like a king.
But in my experience, FL contains a relatively small percentage of families trying to make ends meet, a large percentage of older adults in retirement, and the rest are the people who prey on both. There’s a reason that shows like “Cops” are almost always in FL.
RaflW
@burnspbesq: Quoting Collender:
Which will be fun, since Obama has pretty much pantsed Boehner every time he’s tried something like this.
mclaren
Some ignorant crank in a thread further down below urged Joe Biden to run for president because “he isn’t corrupt.”
LOL!
Source: “Joe Biden, Drug Warrior,” counterpunch.org, 2008.
Source: “Hunter Biden’s new job at a Ukrainian gas company is a problem for U.S. soft power,” The Washington Post, 14 May 2014.
Joe Biden was a trainwreck as a senator, a catastrophe as Vice President, and would be a Tunguska Event as president. This guy should be kept as far away from power as possible.
Gimlet
@RaflW: Christie is a member of New England’s “Smash-mouth Conservatives”.
This also includes John Sununu, Rudy Giuliani and honorary member John Bolton. Donald Trump’s membership is pending.
Alison
@Mustang Bobby: Well, but this wasn’t from my actual email – it just had my name on it.
RaflW
@burnspbesq: Fair enough. I am certainly not a lawyer. Whatever it takes to lock the pathetically evil man up for his lifetime.
SoupCatcher
If you’re looking for a place to offload that rain, I have Northern California on line one.
The Rocky Fire has already burned 60,000 acres, in some of the poorest areas of the state, and is nowhere near containment.
burnspbesq
@mclaren:
And if he’s the Democratic nominee, you will kindly shut the fuck up and vote for him, because for all of his faults he is still far less dangerous than ANY possible Republican nominee. Surely even you can figure that out.
scav
@Roger Moore: They can probably pull probable “linked names” from whatever that source is that tries to link phone numbers together in the ubiquitous white pages. Still no way to guarantee the Anna Fractofusus mailed to the Anna Fractofusus of the original number, but one can jiggle a bit with geography and it might still increase the response rate over doing nothing. Plus all the other people’s contact lists that can be mined for people that probably know one another. I had a co-worker years ago who could be counted on to fall for every scam that came along. Still sometimes get echoes of her in the junkbox.
RaflW
@Alison: It happens a lot. I was kinda upset the first time or two, but then realized that the spammers are getting names from public sources, or perhaps other people’s hacked accts. Not likely to mean a lot, though tightening up one’s email security isn’t ever really a bad thing.
gbear
Not to rub it in or anything, but the Twin Cities is having a stunningly perfect weather day today. As in: Why the hell am I still in the office when the boss is on vacation this week?
You can remind me of this in January.
Ruckus
@shell:
They may not have bitten off the heads yet but they are willing to hold them in their mouths for up to an entire minute. You are correct, very next step.
Alison
@RaflW: Yeah, I suggested she just change her password, just to be safe. She’s one of those who uses the same password for like 90% of what she does online :P
RaflW
@mclaren: So, do tell us the ways Biden has been a catastrophe as Vice President. I’d enjoy the juicy specifics.
Or shut up.
Because here I think you are, as is so often the case, full of crap.
Ruckus
@RaflW:
Is so often code for 99%?
Redshift
@Alison: The thing to remember is that email has absolutely no security. It passes through multiple systems in plain text on its way between sender and destination. All a spammer needs to do to generate one of these emails is to operate one of those systems (or infect one.) They can easily see the sender and recipient, and generate a spam email to the sender’s address and with the recipient’s name. (They could fake the recipient’s email address to some extent, but that would be more effort.)
But the short answer is that the spammer doesn’t require access to a her contacts or anything on her computer to generate this kind of fake. Nothing to be done, just ignore it and don’t worry.
Bobby Thomson
@Gimlet: you have a funny definition of New England.
Brachiator
@burnspbesq:
Very sad. And the guy had been out of jail for just 3 weeks from a similar attack?
Yes, put him away. But the ultra-Orthodox and others who are so “offended” need to seriously re-examine their values.
Peale
@burnspbesq: I get the feeling that mclaren hasn’t voted in an election since Henry Wallace was on the ballot.
ET
I am a bit bummed. The July BJ calendar featured my beautiful Bean that I got to look at for the month and now it is August. There are some cuties featured for august especially Mote, but none are my Bean.
RaflW
Aha, mclaren. Actually reading the bit you pointed to above, one reads
So, if these are the standards by which Biden has been a catastrophe, symbolic in nature that they are, well I’ll be … uhhh, hard to convince of the doom, doom! I say!
Also, too, I am at about 0.01% that Biden will run. So there is that.
Matt McIrvin
The idea that the Democratic nomination is basically a done deal, whether it’s true or not, has the problem from a media perspective that it’s deadly boring. Everyone already knows Hillary Clinton, who has been a major name in US national politics since the early 1990s. There’s no horse race to speak of. The last time she ran for president, it was clear from sometime early in 2007 well into the ’08 primary season (despite what you may hear now to the contrary) that this was a real fight and the winner was uncertain.
So now, to make it interesting, they have to come up with ways that Clinton is in serious risk of losing the nomination. And some fraction of people buy the narrative. Who knows, if enough people buy it it could even become true.
rikyrah
Propane Jane @docrocktex26
The GOP crack-up continues: The raging civil war over the disgusting “cuckservative” slur http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/the_gop_crack_up_continues_the_raging_civil_war_over_the_disgusting_%e2%80%9ccuckservative%e2%80%9d_slur/ … via @Salon Just wow.
Propane Jane @docrocktex26
Y’all, we’re gonna have to talk about this term “cuckservative”….
Propane Jane @docrocktex26
It’s so gross I don’t wanna touch it with a ten foot pole, but that’s precisely why it has to be addressed. Sigh.
Propane Jane
@docrocktex26 Ok so here’s the meaning of “cuckservative” as told by the racists who invented it: http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/the_gop_crack_up_continues_the_raging_civil_war_over_the_disgusting_%e2%80%9ccuckservative%e2%80%9d_slur/ …
https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/628262507593887744/photo/1
Propane Jane @docrocktex26
Yet again the fantasy of a Black Mandingo raping their White women, or in this case their White country, is fueling the conservative base.
Propane Jane @docrocktex26
They’re using a Black man having sex with a White man’s wife while he watches helplessly as a metaphor for PBO implementing his agenda.
RaflW
@Matt McIrvin: Yes, and given the absurdist tragicomedy of the GOP nominating process so far, playing it boring is the wise Democratic tactic for this phase.
gogol's wife
@ET:
I really enjoyed looking at Bean too! But I always save the calendars and look through them from time to time. The one with Tunch on the cover is enthroned in my office where I can see it every day.
boatboy_srq
@Betty Cracker:
It is – but that’s every day. Oh wait, you meant flooding there is worse…
shell
And this week there’s going to be endless busy-talk about Thursday’s debate. I wonder if MSNBC will have their usual count-down ticker, for those too stupid to tell time.
sharl
@Gimlet:
Thank goodness Christie the Bridgemaster is still whacking public school teachers, truly History’s Greatest Monsters™.
Man’s a goddam hero, he is …{weeps silently and reverently…}
shell
“I will NOT be contained!”
Gimlet
@Bobby Thomson:
Being a liberal, it’s just a liberal interpretation of what constitutes New England.
Calouste
@Matt McIrvin: Clinton was polling around 40% throughout the early campaign in 2007. Now she is polling in the mid 50s. Definitely the difference between being the frontrunner and being the overwhelming favorite. And of the other current possibilities, Sanders scores in the high teens, Biden slightly above 10% and the rest barely gets outside the margin of error.
boatboy_srq
@Gimlet: Nyawkahs summah in Newpawt and Prahvincetown. It’s a stretch, but for some it does meet the qualifications.
Origuy
Joe Manchin is marching to the Republican beat again:
Patricia Kayden
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Secretary Clinton can taste the Presidency this time around. I love that she’s not running away from President Obama’s record and thus not angering the base. So far, so good.
Patricia Kayden
@Origuy: It’s a hoax. http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/wing_nut_conspiracy_theorists_have_done_it_again_the_truth_about_the_planned_parenthood_hoax_revealed/
Why is Manchin even a Democrat? He should just run as a Republican next time around.
Cacti
@Origuy:
And remember, Manchin voting with the Republicans makes him a “moderate” to the Villagers.
Tree With Water
This is the look GW got when responsible people began discussing impeaching his evil ass:
http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/x63ijdhcjvgwml5h2wgw.jpg
Right to Rise
@rikyrah:
This is actually great for Jeb. It makes him look above the fray, moderate, thoughtful, even I daresay presidential when people to his right are acting like loud, spoiled children. It blunts any screams of RACISM by the Democrat Party.
Jeb will benefit from this.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Little Marco’s got priorities!
Is there somewhere I can place a bet that Lindsey Graham runs back to DC? Or spews some variant of “before Planned Parenthood comes and kills us all!”?
Right to Rise
@mclaren:
Corruption is the ‘Democrat Way’. Payoffs, bosses, machines, bribes, kickbacks, sexual affairs, it’s part and parcel of the kind of people they are.
Compare it to Jeb Bush to Billary Clinton, for starters.
Right to Rise
Jeb Bush touts $120 million campaign warchest to Koch brothers.
The Kochs alone are pledging to spend nearly 900MILLION DOLLARS in 2016. They’re about to show Trump who the real billionaires are.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@burnspbesq:
Technically, wasn’t Jeffrey Dahmer legally sane under U.S. law? He knew it was wrong to kill and eat people, but he did it anyway.
They still put him in a ward for the criminally insane instead of a normal prison once he was convicted.
WereBear
I hope you have high ground somewhere, Betty.
burnspbesq
@Patricia Kayden:
Because he’d rather be identified with Robert Byrd than Arch Moore?
rikyrah
MuckRock
@MuckRock Over half of black and hispanic deaths in #policecustody are “non-natural causes” https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jul/31/california-deaths-custody-2013-2014/ …
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Right to Rise:
Sure, let’s compare Jeb to Billary. I don’t think you’re going to like the answer much:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/worth-asking-again-how-does-jeb-bush-make-a-living/2210334
Cacti
@Right to Rise:
So, would you say that Jeb has unlimited corporate cash?
burnspbesq
Oh joy, a new troll.
Gimlet
@Right to Rise:
While Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, state pension officials committed at least $1.7 billion to financial firms whose executives were “Pioneer” fundraisers for his brother’s presidential campaigns.
To achieve Pioneer status, the fundraisers had to amass at least $100,000 worth of bundled contributions to one of George W. Bush’s campaigns.
Origuy
@Patricia Kayden:
I know that, tell “Tailrunner” Joe.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@burnspbesq:
Not new — conservatives are doing their part for the environment and recycling old trolls.
Josie
@geg6: Some dogs just like to chew until they mature. For a long time we had golden retrievers, and I had to throw out my outdoor redwood furniture because it had no more legs. Then I had Teddi, the akbash, and she never chewed on anything. Now I have Duncan, the corgi, and during his first 1 1/2 years he chewed his way through three pair of shoes, a harness, a video game, part of the wall, and the corners on three throw rugs. Thank goodness, around the age of two he stopped and has never chewed again. So, hopefully, Lovey will grow out of it. The good thing is I became a better housekeeper due to the fact that everything had to be off the floor. I don’t think there is such a thing as an unchewable harness, unfortunately.
RaflW
@burnspbesq: Meet the new troll. Same as the old troll.
eta Apologies for the pre-roll ad.
currants
@Punchy: NICE!
burnspbesq
@RaflW:
No need to apologize for an ad featuring an early-60s (’62, I think) Chevy convertible. Da-roo-ell, da-roo-ell.
replicnt6
@Right to Rise: Unlimited Corporate Cash!! Welcome to 2016!
sharl
@Cacti: Hah, I knew the cadence and tone of those comments seemed familiar. I just couldn’t place it…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I’ll stop by and personally deliver the internets to you.
PurpleGirl
@Origuy: Of, in some places there MIGHT be other community health centers that can perform the same or similar services as Planned Parenthood does. But — and it’s a big one — the reason Planned Parenthood gets the contracts to provide these services is that there AREN’T other community health centers to provide those services in most places. (Shrugs, stupid is as stupid says.)
PurpleGirl
@PurpleGirl: Yes, I know the PP videos are faked. This is to address Manchin’s comments about awarding the contracts to PP and not some other community health service.
Patricia Kayden
@burnspbesq: He’s the same troll as the last thread. Pretending that he’s above the fray while spewing racism. No more interesting than any other run of the mill White Supremacist. He has a bone to pick with the Negroes so I’m sure the Negro-in-Chief has messed up his mind. Just wait until the Negro-in-Chief hands over the White House to the Feminist-in-Charge. Heads will explode.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah:But But But don’t you know that Blacks are killing Blacks (as if Whites don’t kill Whites)? Just ask Rightwing Riser.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Patricia Kayden:
And if you weren’t sure about his claim above that the majority of murders are black victims murdered by black perpetrators — yep, it’s a bald-faced lie:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls
low-tech cyclist
Summer’s here, and the time is right
for fishing in the street
They’re fishing in Tampa
Down on Hillsborough Avenue
All we need is water, rain water,
there is water everywhere…
At the link, there’s a video clip of a guy catching a fish with his bare hands on flooded Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa. Unbelievable.
mclaren
@RaflW:
Ah, yes, the old “you haven’t provided enough evidence” scam — I’ve only posted a dozen different links to sources like The Washington Post and The New York Post, but that’s not enough. And now of course if I do take your bait and respond with even more evidence of Biden’s corruption and malfeasance as Vice President, what will be your response?
“Too long, didn’t read.” “Mclaren spams us with another 700-page-long post. Can’t someone ban him.” “More endless verbiage from mclaren.” And so on.
The old Catch-22. If I don’t post 700 links I’m not providing evidence to back up my claims (becaues only a dozen or so links just isn’t enough) while if I do provide even more evidence to back up my claim, my posts are too long and you just don’t have time to read ’em.
So let’s cut this shit out right now and do the Black Knight scene from Monty Ptyhon and hte Holy Grail.
I’m not playing this horseshit game of “gimme more evidence” because no amount of evidence is ever enough for chuckleheads like you. So instead we’re going to turn this scam around, because I’ve already provided copious evidence of Joe Biden’s malfeasance and corruption as a senator — and now the burden of proof is on you.
You want to demand more evidence? Fine. I’ll provide plenty more evidence of how rotten a VP Biden has been (including the evidence that the illegal unconstitutional raid against Kim Dotcom came immediately after major cable companies and internet ISPs met privately with Joe Biden to demand that he shut down internet filesharing even if he had to violate the constitution to do it; and including evidence that Joe Biden called Julian Assange “a high-tech terrorist” for revealing proof of the U.S. government committing crimes; and including evidence that Joe Biden enthusiastically backed up and praised Obama’s prosecution of more whistleblowers than all other presidents put together)…
…As soon as you provide evidence showing that Joe Biden has done a stellar job as Vice President. C’mon, provide us with 3 (three) different pieces of hard evidence showing Joe Biden’s notable accomplishments as VP for every link I’ve provided showing Joe Biden was a corrupt and piss-poor senator.
Otherwise, you shut the fuck up.
C’mon. Pony up. Let’s have that evidence. Show it to us. Let us see it.
Because otherwise you’re 100% full of shit.
Here’s the reality: people don’t change. If a guy like Biden makes a rotten senator, he’s going to be a crappy Vice President and a disaster as a president. It’s the same as with Richard Nixon, who was a corrupt sleazy red-baiting HUAC-colluding senator, and went on to become an even sleazier and more corrupt Vice President, and (as we all know) became a nuclear meltdown of a president.
Or Ronald Reagan, who was a trainwreck as Governor of California (his major accomplishments included calling in the national guard against some college kids because they printed “fuck” in the Berkeley school newspaper, and gutting California’s superb largely free college system with the quip “The government should not be in the business of subsidizing intellectual curiosity” along with his stellar accomplishment of advocating that parent murder their own children if they dared protest the Viet Nam war with the statement, “If it take a bloodbath, let’s get it over with” referring to shutting down antiwar protests), went on to become the worst president of my lifetime.
So people’s histories really do matter.
I’ve provided reams of evidence about Joe Biden rotten record as a senator. That all points to an even worse record if he became president.
Of course, I have plenty of evidence about Biden’s disastrous vice presidency under Obama — but before I deliver that evidence, you need to step up and show us plenty of hard evidence that Biden scored any accomplishments as VP other than gutting the constitution by advocating warrantless wiretapping and Patriot Act abuses, cheerleading Obama’s failed and futile foreign wars, urging even more draconian War on Drugs penalties, deepthroating Hollywood and internet ISPs in their quest for ever more copyright extensions, and aiding and abetting the Wall Street crime lords and multinational U.S. CEOs in their thirst for the limitless expansion of corporate power.
Step up. Show us all your evidence of how great a VP Biden has been.
Or shut the fuck up, you pissant little lying weasel.
Paul in KY
@RaflW: I had thought he was from planet Reptar. Now I can see the Gorgotroian in him. Good pick-up there.
It’s the throat pouch that gives him away…
Paul in KY
@RaflW: I’m not sure if they do lifetime lockup for non-Arabs. Isn’t the POS that murdered PM Rabin supposed to get out some day?
Paul in KY
@Mnemosyne (tablet): He was in a regular prison, was just in protective custody.