Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[hedge]

Evidently one of the winning powerball tickets was sold in Tennessee. Maybe BOJ finally made some money...

[Professor Tiger]

heh

[Dr. Strangelove]

Ted Cruz hates 'New York values'...but he sure love New York money

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/14/ted ... ork-money/

[Toemeesleather]

[Toemeesleather]

Not a huge deal, but a milestone (some thought would never happen) none the less.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 5-09-18-12

[Professor Tiger]

Woa. Walmart is struggling? A sure sign of the apocalypse.

[Dr. Strangelove]

More than 95% of the closing stores are within 10 miles of another Wal-Mart...so oversaturation seems to be one problem.

I don't think any of those Wal-Mart Express conv stores ever opened in the north. Never have seen one.

Family Dollar, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, etc. have been cutting into Wal-Mart's lower-end customer base for a while now. They have a real image problem with higher-income consumers. Not so much for labor practices or anything like that...just the simple perception that Wal-Mart is trashy. When I walk into Wal-Mart it feels like a run-down warehouse with dusty items on the shelves (when things are in stock). It's hard to find what I'm looking for. There's 30 registers but only two of them are staffed. The self-checkout machines are slow as shit when they're operational.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Conservatives furious over Obama doing a prisoners swap with Iran.

Saint Reagan would NEVER have cut any deals with the hated Iranians.

[bluetick]

Yeah they were bashing any nuke deal with Iran that didn't include the hostages. Looks like the hostage release was a delayed bennie, yet the repubs cry foul and will no doubt convene some congressional committees over it.

[Professor Tiger]

I'm glad the hostages have been released. At least one good thing came out of that horrible Iran nuke deal.

[hedge]

I wish they had made a deal with Iran to nuke you...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Iowa Governor (R) wants anyone but Cruz

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/19/politics/ ... index.html

[aTm]

"Corn lobby wants anybody but Cruz"

[Professor Tiger]

"Keep your big government hands off my ethanol subsidies!"

[Toemeesleather]

[Toemeesleather]

Karma....


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/po ... .html?_r=0

[Professor Tiger]

Can you imagine Bill Clinton doing his thing on a modern college campus?

[hedge]

I'd like to see Gregory Hines do his thing on your skull...

[Professor Tiger]

The Inspector General of the intelligence community wrote a memo to the Justice Department stating they have found material on Hillary's homebrew server that is above Top Secret classification. It's SAP - Special Access Programs - which are America's most closely guarded secrets. And because it was on her illegal private server which was not secured, it was almost certainly hacked, and now the Chinese/Russians/Norks/ISIS have it.

Please check all that apply:

_ It's no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move along.
_ It's a problem, but it does' rise to the level of a big problem. At this point, what does it matter?
_ This is all a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy, led by that partisan shill, the IG for the intel community.
_ She's guilty, but the IG wouldn't dare call for the indictment of a Clinton.
_ If the IG calls for an indictment, the Attorney General will never indict a Clinton.
_ If the DOJ indicts Clinton, Obama will pardon her.
_ If the Clinton is indicted after the election, she'll pardon herself.

[hedge]

"material on Hillary's homebrew server that is above Top Secret classification."

Above top secret? Kinda like double secret probation?