Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Professor Tiger]

Nobody will care.

[Toemeesleather]

that began 40 years ago


Wow, selective (and ignorant) aren't you....not surprised. The two trends that are directly comparable (unemployment trending down/food stamps remaining constant) began 2008-2009, but you go back to the Ford admin to chirp about greed/profits.

Carry on.

http://wikipedia/GreatRecession/toeisafucking%20dumbass

Looks like Marty has returned, under cloak as a Val fan.

[Toemeesleather]

Yeah why bitch (or care) about about wage stagnation in America when you can bitch about food stamps instead?

You gobblers want to trumpet low unemployment as some kind of vindication of Obammers big gubment/spending stimulus...it's a simple question, why has food stamp consumption not decreased in some proportionality to increased employment?


Oh, and didn't we have wage stagnation (per marty's graph) during Reagan and Clinton?

[Johnette's Daddy]

MISSED THIS ON FOX:

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow ... story.html

A video of white University of Oklahoma fraternity members engaging in a racist chant went viral after a tipster texted the video to members of a black campus activist group who shared it on Twitter, a representative for the group told the Los Angeles Times on Monday.

University and national fraternity officials almost immediately shut down the university’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter after the video surfaced on social media on Sunday night. The university’s president on Monday, while announcing a separate investigation into individual fraternity members, vowed SAE would never return while he remained in charge.

Dozens of University of Oklahoma students gathered on campus Monday morning before dawn to protest, with some carrying placards decrying racism.

Monday morning’s protest was organized by a group named OU Unheard, which got almost 4,000 retweets after sharing the video on Twitter and tagging the university’s president early Sunday evening.

Chelsea Davis, a 20-year-old junior and co-director for the group, told The Times that the tipster who sent the video to the group Sunday was not the person who shot the video, and the sender wanted to remain anonymous.

"They should expel these students for what they have done," Davis said of the “hurtful” chant.

In the video, young men can be heard chanting "you can hang 'em from a tree" but “there will never be a ….. SAE” and clapping in unison, to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It." After the video went viral, protesters began using the offensive lyrics as a hashtag, along with #SAEHatesMe.

A separate video showing the chant, shot apparently by a different person on the bus where the fraternity members appeared to have gathered with dates in formal attire, has since emerged on Instagram.

Both the university and the national chapter of SAE condemned the chant and moved quickly Sunday to suspend the fraternity from the Norman, Okla., campus of 30,000.

On Monday morning, David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, ordered the SAE house closed. Members must clear out their belongings by midnight Tuesday.

"Whether it’s casual conversation or other activities, any time there are racists remarks made, we must speak up as regular Americans,” Boren said at a Monday morning news conference, arguing that there must be “zero tolerance” for racism not just at the campus but across the country. “As they pack their bags, I hope they think long and hard about what they’ve done. … The house will be closed. As far as I’m concerned it won’t be back, at least while I’m president of the university. It’s time we send messages that are very strong and very clear.”

Brad Cohen, president of the national chapter of SAE, said he was “disgusted and shocked” by the video and closed the chapter. In a statement, SAE said it was "embarrassed by this video" and apologized to "anyone outside the organization who is offended but also to our brothers who come from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities."

SAE was founded in 1856 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Nationwide there are more than 200 chapters and 15,000 undergraduate members.

Some student activists and observers have raised questions about whether the SAE chant was common, given that many young men on the bus shown in the video appeared to know it. In February, a Reddit user posted a message that had lyrics for an SAE chant similar to those shown in the Oklahoma video, with the user adding that “a few buddies of mine told me [it was] their favorite song to sing.”

The Oklahoma video caused an instant uproar on campus. In some tweets posted late Sunday, the fraternity house was shown with a spray painted message, "tear it down," on its outside wall.

[Jungle Rat]

Hello yesterday

[sardis]

I didn't know JD read Fox News.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/09/un ... -chant-by/

[Johnette's Daddy]

I didn't know JD read Fox News.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/09/un ... -chant-by/

Thanks - I missed it there.

[Johnette's Daddy]

None of this brings back Michael Brown, but it's something . . .

Missouri appeals judge appointed to take over Ferguson court

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court judge was appointed Monday to take over Ferguson's municipal court and make "needed reforms" after a highly critical U.S. Department of Justice report that was prompted by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-appeals- ... 13148.html

Ferguson cop fired, two suspended for racist emails

A Ferguson, Missouri, police official has been fired and two others are on administrative leave pending an investigation of racist emails uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown last year, Mayor James Knowles said Wednesday. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ferguson-cop ... ist-emails

[sardis]

Michael Brown robbed a convenient store. He then charged a police officer trying to make an arrest.

If the Attorney General's report is true, Michael Brown caused his own death.

[bluetick]

[Toemeesleather]

Predictable, however, since factcheck gets money from Annenberg, it is, by your own definition, disqualified/irrelevant.


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[bluetick]

At least they got the 45% increase in food stamp recipients number correct, right? heh

And by the way, Walter Annenberg served under the Nixon and Reagan administrations. He was Ronnie's best pal and personally introduced him to Margaret Thatcher.

[Professor Tiger]

Missing: Numbers on debt and deficit.

To me, that's the big enchilada.

[Toemeesleather]

[bluetick]

Also missing: zero percent change in the minimum wage.

To some people, that means NO enchilada.

[Professor Tiger]

I'm in favor of raising the minimum wage since so many people are being forced to try and live on it.

[hedge]

I wonder why I'm being forced to live with you clowns...

[Toemeesleather]

It's deja-vu (1994) all over again.

Hillary Clinton ’s admirers say she’ll run for President in part by invoking the glory days of the 1990s. For a taste of that era, we recommend her brief press conference Tuesday explaining why she had used a private email account as Secretary of State. It had everything nostalgia buffs could want—deleted evidence, blustery evasions, and preposterous explanations that only James Carville could pretend to believe.

In the preposterous category, Mrs. Clinton explained that she preferred a private email account simply as a “convenience” because it allowed her to “carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.” We know plenty of people who have two accounts on the same device, and they don’t even have a retinue of aides to help carry their devices.

To allow for such splendid convenience, Mrs. Clinton had to go to the inconvenience of getting her own domain name for this secret email on the day of her confirmation hearing in 2009, and then setting up a system to manage it. Her “one device” excuse reminds us of her explanation from 1993 that she had made a 10,000% killing on cattle futures by reading the Wall Street Journal.


Hell, I've got two e-mail accounts on my I-phone, and I'm just a dumass tea bagger. She's more Marty-esque than Marty.

[hedge]

I wish you had a smart bomb on your i-phone...

[bluetick]

I'm sending emails to Tennessee's two republican senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander, in praise of their decision to reject the treasonous letter authored by freshman senator Tom Cotton as addressed to "the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran," rejecting any nuclear deal our country makes with Iran in the future tense.

This latest attempt by the GOP to nullify and humiliate a sitting president has crossed a line that in all likelihood can't be uncrossed. For a couple of hundred years political division has stopped at the shoreline - now comes this outrage. All you mouthbreathers who made noises about gun confiscations and martial law need to pay attention...this shit is real. A cabal of U.S. rightwingers making an end-run assist to Iran's rightwingers happened.

Oh, and kudos to the other GOP senators who refused to sign as well.