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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

May 24, 2013 05:15 PM Forum: Politics

Keglers

Posted By Dave Snope
I learned something new today. No, not that Democratic policitians have an insatiable desire to control every tiny aspect of our private lives. That has always been, and always will be. I learned what a "kegler" is.

New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan (R-59th District) New York State Assemblyman Robin Schimminger (D-140th District) are sponsoring a bill that would cover bowling shoes. The bill in the assembly is co-sponsored by Assembly members Brian Kolb, Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Jane Corwin.

It would require alley owners to post signs, warning keglers not to wear bowling shoes outside, lest they become wet and increase the likelihood that a bowler could slip and fall when they come inside.


I find this a bit incongruous**. Aren't slip 'n fall attorneys democrats? And aren't lawyers one of the top two donors to the democrat party?


http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/215495/37/Bowling-Shoe-Law-Being-Debated-in-State-Legislature?utm_source=feedly

** On second thought, I recall having heard a trial lawyer say that putting up signs to warn of a danger implies that the property owner knows of said danger, and is therefore more liable than if he didn't put up signs. I doubt it really matters because history has shown us that these vermin will rationalize any thing from any perspective in order to get other people's money. Probably should just outlaw bowling shoes altogether.

June 3, 2013 11:46 PM Forum: Politics

IRS Scandal About To Explode?

Posted By Dave Snope
Joseph Curl of WaPo and Drudge:

Joseph Curlþ@josephcurl1h
Hearing from some top Hill sources that IRS scandal about to explode. Low-level agency workers miffed at being blamed. About to return fire.

One source says there's a paper trail to DC, and some who were worried from the get-go kept a paper trail. Wouldn't say WH, but said 'high.'

June 7, 2013 05:57 PM Forum: Politics

Unemployment Rate Stinks

Posted By Dave Snope
Lost in all the scandal noise and the now hourly lies told by Obama and Crew (I heard about 10 lies and strawmen in his conf today) is the still horrendous unemployment rate of Obama's "Recovery".

Here are the latest charts from ZH:

By now the trick of lowering the unemployment rate courtesy of a "collapsing" labor force participation rate is known by all. As we showed earlier, the LFP, despite posting a tiny 0.1% uptick in May, was still at 30 year lows.


June 10, 2013 05:53 PM Forum: Politics

Then And Now: Majoritarian Checks

Posted By Dave Snope
There are dozens of these BO changeovers from civil libertarian to leftist totalitarian:

2001: “I’m always more concerned about encroachment on civil rights and civil liberties that apply selectively to people. When they apply to everybody there tends to be sort of a majoritarian check,” Obama said. “When we come to the wiretap provisions for example if those laws start encroaching too much on people’s privacy the average person, me, Joe, everybody starts griping and complaining.”

2013, Friday: Obama discusses current "majoritarian checks" wiretap scandals, calls media response just hype



In an October 2001 appearance on Chicago public television State-Sen. Barack Obama predicted a “majoritarian check” when mass surveillance started encroaching on the majority of Americans’ civil liberties.

June 11, 2013 06:00 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Sheldon Whitehouse (D): Deniers Are Insane

Posted By Dave Snope

Time to send them to the federal mental facilities? Or the re-education camps? Lets spy on more of their phonecalls, sick the IRS on their families, and then do it.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Tuesday those who deny carbon dioxide emissions contribute to climate change are “one step short of insane.”

The Rhode Island Democrat made the comments at an annual energy and environment event he hosts at the Capitol.


It's not suprising, coming from him. He earlier crassly exploited the dead and victims of the OKC tornadoes on Republicans.

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”


There's a word that describes him perfectly. But it might violate the terms of service. It describes people who have an over-inflated sense of self worth and low intelligence. What can you say about a guy who, when tornado counts are lower than normal, and usually rise during cooler decades, uses the tragics deaths of tornado victims as leverage to exploit political opponents of causing warming, even when it's not warming?

June 11, 2013 06:04 PM Forum: Politics

Sheldon Whitehouse (D): Deniers Are Insane

Posted By Dave Snope
I posted this on the GW topic but think it should be shared here:

Time to send them to the federal mental facilities? Or the re-education camps? Lets spy on more of their phonecalls, sick the IRS on their families, and then do it.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Tuesday those who deny carbon dioxide emissions contribute to climate change are “one step short of insane.”

The Rhode Island Democrat made the comments at an annual energy and environment event he hosts at the Capitol.

It's not suprising, coming from him. He earlier crassly exploited the dead and victims of the OKC tornadoes on Republicans.

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”

There's a word that describes him perfectly. But it might violate the terms of service. It describes people who have an over-inflated sense of self worth and low intelligence. What can you say about a guy who, when tornado counts are lower than normal, and usually rise during cooler decades, uses the tragics deaths of tornado victims as leverage to exploit political opponents of causing warming, even when it's not warming?

June 19, 2013 10:32 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Silence The Denialist Crackpot Conspiracy Theorist

Posted By Dave Snope
The top climate politicians in the UK and U.S. have no tolerance for dissent. Still acting like global warming is a religion:

UK Climate Chief Davey:
“There will always be those with a vested interest in the status quo. Who seek to create doubt where there is certainty,” he said. “And you will always get crackpots and conspiracy theorists who will deny they have a nose on their face if it suits them.

Heather Zichal, the deputy assistant to the president on energy and climate change:
“The era of delay and denial is over,” she said.

June 21, 2013 03:39 PM Forum: Politics

Carney's 9486 Dodges in Two Years

Posted By Dave Snope
The most Transparent Administration Ever's (TM) paid liar has no answers for hard questions during his charade called "White House Press Briefing".

a Yahoo! News analysis identifies “13 distinct strains” of how Mr. Carney evades reporter’s questions. More than 1,900 times since he held his first press briefing on Feb. 16, 2011, he gave some form of “I don’t have the answer — and there were at least 9,486 times where he’s dodged a question.

The breakdown, according to Yahoo!, includes:

I don’t have the answer (1905 times)
I would refer you to someone else (1383 times)
You already know the answer (1125 times)
I’m not going to tell you (939 times)
Not that I know of (927 times)
I don’t want to (588 times)
I’m not sure (549 times)
I won’t speculate (525 times)
No comment (429 times)
I’ll get back to you (387 times)
It’s a good question (381 times)
See yesterday’s non-response (231 times)
The president won’t tell me (117 times)


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/21/white-houses-jay-carney-dodges-questions-more-9000/#ixzz2WrizwtCE

June 21, 2013 06:44 PM Forum: Politics

41% Small Biz Froze Hiring Due To Obamacare

Posted By Dave Snope
41% froze, 19% reduced employees, another 38% pulled back growth plans. It looks like they passed it, then businesses found out what was in it, and it kills jobs and stunts growth for all. But that's OK, just put 'em on the welfare and food stamp rolls until everybody votes democrat.

Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered "yes" when asked if they had "reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act."

The poll was taken by 603 owners whose businesses have under $20 million in annual sales.

Another 38 percent of the small business owners said they "have pulled back on their plans to grow their business" because of Obamacare.

Those are "some pretty startling answers," Friedman said.

"To think that [nearly] 20 percent of small businesses have already reduced the numbers they have in their business because they're concerned about the medical coverage is significant, and a bit troubling," Friedman said.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100825782

June 26, 2013 02:05 AM Forum: Politics

Weiner Now The Frontrunner For NYC Mayor

Posted By Dave Snope
Democats will vote for anyone who is a member.

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has surged ahead of his opponents in a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal poll, transforming himself in just a few weeks from disgraced has-been to mayoral front-runner.

Weiner, who entered the race two years after resigning his congressional seat amid a sexting scandal, now leads City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the crowded Democratic primary, setting up a new phase in what could end up being a remarkable political comeback.

Weiner leads Quinn 25 percent to 20 percent among registered Democrats, the poll by Marist found. That’s a flip-flop from the last survey in May, when Quinn, the longtime front-runner, led Weiner 24 percent to 19 percent

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