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High everyone!
Welcome to 4/20
Celebrating the High Holy Day that ends the High Holy Season which started with Hash Wednesday.
‘Tis a privilege to live in Colorado.
I rarely use cannabis myself, but I’m all for more freedom and choices for consumers seeking to treat various ailments without supporting Big Pharma, and an end to the Drug War.So I’ll celebrate 4/20 in that spirit.
16 years ago, the school shootings at Columbine also happened.
Thusushering in an era in which we try to explain and mitigate such horrors by blaming music and tweaking school dress codes.
It’s hard to accept that there is no explanation but there isn’t.
Actually, there is, it’s the result of simple mis-wiring. Sometimes madness is just that.
No proof of clinical “madness” or mis-wiring. Almost every kid gets teased or bullied at some point to some degree. No evidence they endured anything out of the ordinary. Lots of kids also have only a small group of friends. Most aren’t part of the elite popular crowd. That’s what makes it elite. Absolutely nothing uncovered about the perpetrators explains why the did what they did when millions of other kids in similar circumstances, including those on medication for various alleged conditions (I believe that only a fraction of kids medicated for ADHD actually have any clinical condition at all and that new popular diagnoses like “oppositional disorder” are pure bull) don’t do anything of the kind. Mis-wiring can only be considered another guess, not an explanation.So far it’s all just guesses. If an explanation other than a guess exists, there isn’t any proof of it so far.
Actually, the article I linked to describes why the FBI and a team of psychological professionals came to the conclusion that Klebold was a psychopath based on a thorough review of the case.
Psycopathy explains what Klebold did. It is about a mis-wired brain, not feeling left out. And the diagnosis was based on things uncovered about the killers.
Guesses. A diagnosis about someone they’d never met based on a review of the case? In the first place, psychology is far from a hard science and this particular brand of long distance psychological post mortem fails to rise above the level of speculation, leaving aside the fact that most psychopaths don’t kill anyone. Nobody knows why this happened. Nobody is ever going to know.
New national CNN poll out this morning shows Hillary Clinton absolutely DESTROYING the clown-filled tractor trailer of simpering, whimpering GOTP wannabe dolts:
Clinton 56% vs Bush 39%
Clinton 58% vs Christie 39%
Clinton 55% vs Rubio 41%
Clinton 58% vs Huckabee 37%
Clinton 58% vs Paul 39%
Clinton 60% vs Carson 36%
Clinton 59% vs Walker 39%
Clinton 60% vs Cruz 36%
What’s that? Benghazi and EmailGate still not doing the trick? Well, there’s always Vince Foster! LMAO!
ESAD, GOTP.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/20/politics/2016-elections-republican-field-poll/
Nice but remember that the state by states give a better picture than these general polls.
Of course, but the overall trend, at least at this early stage, is crystal clear, despite the enemy’s best attempts to assassinate Hillary’s character early on, and she enters the 2016 fray with between 225 and 250 EVs already locked up, depending upon whom you ask. Some say even more.
Fingers crossed there’s no late breaking non-petty Cinton scandal (you never know with the Clintons) or Dems will be well and truly screwed with the all the eggs in one basket.
We still have Biden in reserve…..
True again, but let us not overlook the extremely high propensity among every one of these wannabe GOTP knobs toward gaffing out, and the very high likelihood of each having one or more major scandals detonating right next to or directly beneath them.
The Clintons and the Democratic Party aren’t the only ones walking a perilous tightrope here, and most if not all of their “imperfections” are already well know, unlike the enemy’s…
Agree. And nobody knows how to go for the jugular like the Clintons if their enemies give them half a chance. Remember the late, desperation it’s a 2 AM phone call ad in 2008, making Obama out to be a dangerous choice in dangerous times? Not unlike the coming rightie we’re all gonna die if we we elect Obama ads? Clintons certainly can be counted on not to hesitate out of high road considerations, that’s for sure. There will be no repeat of an above the fray Obama not responding immediately to the ridiculous birthers or a Kerry waiting until Swift Boat lies are firmly entrenched. Whichever clown car occupant makes it out of the GOTP primaries, I’m all for making sure they get obliterated ASAP by any and all possible legally permissible means. Definitely a Clinton strength. In fact, that’s probably the best reason I can think of for supporting HRC with some enthusiasm even though I don’t much like her.
Is this really who Koch, Inc. wants for POTUS?
Yikes! If authentic, there are no words to describe the level of depravity this photo represents.
Was he infatuated with the film “Cabaret”? That’s about the most innocent interpretation I can think of.
OMFG — is that really Walker? It can’t be! We couldn’t possibly get that lucky!
But if so, his political career just died, and I will dance and spit joyfully on its grave.
It IS on the intertubes so it has to be true, right? Could we be so lucky?
Der Snopes thinks not.
If it featured Obama or HRC it would be on 24 hour loop on Fox with every host expressing outrage and without a single caveat indicating that it might not be real. No mere hoping it was true. it would be true as soon as somebody’s uncle passed it along. No detour to Snopes or any other manner of fact checking required. That’s why, when somebody tells you CNN (as if that’s leftie) or MSNBC is just like Fox but for lefties, you can tell them that no other “news” network, center to left, is in any way comparable to Fox, especially not MSNBC and especially not Rachel Maddow which do not make stuff up or pass on every anti-conservative internet rumor that comes their way as established fact without checking it out. Only Fox and the rightie radio brotherhood do that. We on the left hope and enjoy but verify.
No truer words spoken, BC.
Yup, according to Snopes, it is “Probably False”, thus it far exceeds the standard Fox News uses to repeat it as the God’s (Ailes’) Honest Truth.
This was posted on another thread:
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/fact-checking-site-finds-fox-news-tells-truth-18-percent-time/
Fact-Checking Site Finds Fox News Only Tells the Truth 18 Percent of the Time
The only thing that could make this picture better would be if Scotty was hiding POTUS’ real birth certificate under that bed.
Suddenly Rand Paul’s Aqua Budda antics look pretty benign compared to this….
I really wish you were right. but here’s how I think it will go down.
Rival Republicans who are behind the leaking of this picture, will blame Liberal Democrats for putting up such A provably false image. Then, when there are real scandals of Scott Walker making, they can point to this and say and say, “See? Damn liberals will say anything about him. “
so THIS is why he never finished college?
This will take its place in the political almanac right besides Dan Savage’s newfangled definition of “Santorum” and Rick Perry’s three government agencies he would abolish if elected.
I predict foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation will be their newest scandal. Yesterday, Carly girl was talking about Bill’s hormones (like that has anything to do with her hormones). I think if they can’t find anything else, they will just make it up. The whole party is despicable.
That kind of stuff isn’t big enough. For one thing the public mainly accepts that all pols accept money from anybody. They’re going to have to do better.
PJ should know…….
indeed….
The Well-heeled 1%-ers who live around the DC beltway, and the ones who go there looking for their nodding approval (looking at you, MU), are dying to cut Social Security and other meager benefits that go to the poor and elderly:
The Grand Bargain seems to have finally died a much belated death. (Although it could pull a “Walking Dead” on us.) Udall had the shamelessness to call in Elizabeth Warren to campaign for him last year, after he had campaigned against Social Security, and for Bowles-Simpson (BS) and that so-called “Grand Bargain”, for the previous five.
It seems as though our dear Sen. Bennet is still trying to figure out what to do about his seat. He’s incapable of doing anything as bold as a Roosevelt or Truman would, and will most likely be about as bold as Udall was. Heh…
I won’t miss him. But hey, at least he has a (D) behind his name, right?
End or dramatically raise the cap. Let all or most of the upper income brackets pay the same percent of their income as everybody else. Welcome young immigrants and offer them a path to citizenship so they can come out of the shadows and contribute, especially the ones who came here as children, got solid educations and could get higher paying jobs and contribute more if they were legal.
Agree Bowles-Simpson is just the same discredited conservative austerity policy watered down a little. So maybe a little less bad than what we see in all wacko rightie Kansas but still very bad. Not sensible at all.
When the Elephants start trumpeting about Social Security being an entitlement, they need to be reminded that it didn’t “go broke”; the fund was raided to bankroll NASA. That’s when it became a line item in the budget. The money was never paid back into the fund. Republicans were all for that, lest the Soviets get to the moon first and set up missile silos there. Some of these younger Republican candidates need a history lesson.
This dangerous, profoundly corrupt, anti-American, Cheney-like Prince of Darkness (R-Koch Industries) must be taken down forever politically, at all costs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-bottari/walkers-dark-money-allies_b_7096498.html
And yet another potential blow against the fascistic right-wing enemy empire’s nationwide attempt to stop any and all U.S. citizens it doesn’t like from voting:
http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-orders-review-north-carolina-redistricting-134103579–politics.html
So does that put both North Carolina and Alabama in the DOJ’s sights for a declaration that they need pre-clearance under the VRA? That was one of the suggested fallbacks when SCOTUS struck down the Congressional list of states needing pre-clearance…
That makes me happy, DP. Eventually, my faith in SCOTUS just may be restored. We’ll see how they come down in Obergefell v. Hodges (the pending marriage case to be argued next week).
Not happy with Hick’s TABOR gimmick.
Time to man up and ask the vox populi to fix this.
Far out, man….
I will immediately add two or three more of Willies’ tunes to my repertoire and use them as a segue into a mention of Willies’ new enterprise.
Heres the song he and Merle released today, “The Whole World is Going to Pot”.
Thanks , Michael…
LOL. That’s a nice ending to the day, Michael.
Better than Shotgun Willies.
A nice little promo on Rolling Stone… (for some reason it won’t let me embed the video)
Wow That Willie must have a great PR spox….
George Lucas to build affordable housing http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/18/rich-neighbors-refused-to-let-george-lucas-build-studio-so-hes-building-affordable-housing-instead/
Here is today’s update on the schizophrenic Republicans and gay marriage:
Scott Walker: opposes same sex marriage, skipped the ceremony (said he was traveling) but attended the reception of a gay couple’s wedding
John Kacich: opposes same sex marriage but has been invited to a gay wedding and plans to attend
Rick Santorum: vehemently opposes and won’t attend (no word on whether anyone would invite him)
But will they dance?
Nothing sells guns like fear:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/nra-annual-meeting_b_7099472.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
That would also explain why Ken Buck was trumpeting the ISIS terrorist cells just across the border. Buck’s probably on commission…
Someone tell me how this is good:
Michael Bennet 6th Worst Senate Dem – Votes Cast with Republicans
Once again some perspective from Harry I:
A worthy read on revisiting the Ludlow Massacre in today’s New Yorker
Unfortunately… not at all surprising. There has to be a special place in hell for mine owners and operators.
Majority of Americans say Obamacare should be given time to work http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-17/bloomberg-politics-poll-majority-of-americans-say-obamacare-should-get-time-to-work
2015 Denver Auditor Election
Mr. O’Brien has proven track record of Quality ,Trust and Honesty. He was appointed by the Colorado State Legislators to be the State Auditor for 11 years. I think that body knows what it is doing. Mr. Nevitt is pointing out that Mr. O’Brien has never been elected, big deal. He has never run for any office. He is running as an Independent candidate, he will not have any pay backs to dish out after he is elected like his opponent. It is clear to see that all of these endorsements Mr. Nevitt is getting are from offices that he has been associated with for the last eight years. There will be a tremendous amount of conflict of interest in Mr. Nevitt’s office. How can Mr. Nevitt possibly conduct an audit in the office of City Council when he just left there and it’s members are still there? Then there is the Mayors office, just to name a few. These offices are all endorsing someone that has never had any experience in Auditing. Makes one wonder, doesn’t it? I’m voting for Qualifications, trust and honesty.That is Tim O’Brien
So am I. Nevitt is my Councillor, and I’ve never found him to be worth his salt.