Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[innocentbystander]

IB's tales of how miserable it is to be white, male, and wealthy in America continually amuse

wealthy? i wish

[hedge]

You could've thrown male in there, too...

[Dr. Strangelove]

A US attorney holding some sort of "Muslim education" meeting in Manchester, TN. Tennessee freedom lovers and Muslim haters don't take kindly to that commie bullshit

[Professor Tiger]

Yes, Tennesseans were being... Well... Tennesseans.

But why, in the world, did a US attorney decide to appoint himself the zampolit of citizens' sensitivity, tolerance and inclusion of Muslims? Is that his job? Is that any government official's job?

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'm trying to find the backstory on that...apparently there's been a rash of crimes against Muslims in Tennessee? They've been holding a series of public meetings.

To be fair, when they pan the crowd in the video, there's literally hundreds of people in the room, and it's actually only about a handful of imbeciles screaming and shouting the whole time. I guess the room cheered when a picture of a firebombed mosque in Columbia, TN was shown though

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... slims.html

They were in this county in particular because (according to that article):

one of the Coffee County commissioners, Barry West, had posted on his Facebook page a photo of a cowboy-hatted white man sighting down a gun barrel pointed straight at the viewer. The picture was captioned, “How to wink at a N****r.”

No, wait. That would have been 60 years ago.

This one was captioned, “How to wink at a Muslim.”

[Professor Tiger]

If someone from Coffee County Tennessee threatens a Muslim, prosecute him. If a Coffee County Tennessean commits violence against a Muslim, file charges.

But if people from Coffee County Tennessee hold views about Islam that a US Attorney doesn't like, then he should spend his time prosecuting criminals instead of posing as a PC community organizer.

[Dr. Strangelove]

He was invited to speak by the people running the event. He didn't create the event. Sorry, I was wrong in how I first described it

Far right wing activists showed up in droves to disrupt it and they did. I saw some complaints from other conservatives that they made their side look like imbeciles.

[sardis]

I'm trying to find the backstory on that...apparently there's been a rash of crimes against Muslims in Tennessee? They've been holding a series of public meetings.

To be fair, when they pan the crowd in the video, there's literally hundreds of people in the room, and it's actually only about a handful of imbeciles screaming and shouting the whole time. I guess the room cheered when a picture of a firebombed mosque in Columbia, TN was shown though

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... slims.html

They were in this county in particular because (according to that article):

one of the Coffee County commissioners, Barry West, had posted on his Facebook page a photo of a cowboy-hatted white man sighting down a gun barrel pointed straight at the viewer. The picture was captioned, “How to wink at a N****r.”

No, wait. That would have been 60 years ago.

This one was captioned, “How to wink at a Muslim.”

I didn't know Muslim was a racial term....Nor did I know it was derogatory.

[hedge]

In the context of the photo cited, you could hardly call it a neutral term...

[Toemeesleather]

Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline.

The increase of the so-called social cost of carbon, to $38 a metric ton in 2015 from $23.80, adjusts the calculation the government uses to weigh costs and benefits of proposed regulations. The figure is meant to approximate losses from global warming such as flood damage and diminished crops.

For example, the administration’s vehicle fuel-efficiency standards would cost industry $350 billion over the next 40 years, while benefits in energy security, less congestion and lower pollution totaled $278 billion.

With the change, government actions that lead to cuts in emissions -- anything from new mileage standards to clean-energy loans -- will appear more valuable in its cost-benefit analyses. On the flip side, approvals that could lead to more carbon pollution, such as TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone pipeline or coal-mining by companies such as Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) on public lands, may be viewed as more costly.

“As we learn that climate damage is worse and worse, there is no direction they could go but up,” Laurie Johnson, chief economist for climate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in an interview. Johnson says the administration should go further; she estimates the carbon cost could be as much as $266 a ton.
Public Comment

Even supporters questioned the way the administration slipped the policy out without first opening it for public comment. The change was buried in an afternoon announcement on May 31 about efficiency standards for microwave ovens, a rule not seen as groundbreaking.

“This is a very strange way to make policy about something this important,” Frank Ackerman, an economist at Tufts University who published a book about the economics of global warming, said in an interview. The Obama administration “hasn’t always leveled with us about what is happening behind closed doors.”

[Jungle Rat]

THE SKY IS FALLING !!!!!


(again)

[Professor Tiger]

The left is really pissed about Obama's Internet surveillance.

http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archi ... ge/276755/

[sardis]

They are not liking Opramacare either...

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/o ... html?hp=f2

[bluetick]

The right is in perpetual meltdown and the left is pissed. Balance?

[Professor Tiger]

Meltdown is not too strong a word. I seldom listen to talk radio, but I listened to Rush and Hannity the other day. The rage they are venting against Obama today is just as intense as it was right after the election. And the presidential election before that. I'm amazed that they can maintain that white hot level of anger for so long.

[10ac]

It pays well.

[AlabamAlum]

Exactly.

[Jungle Rat]

I've got the hiccups again. Fuck me. These bouts last for hours.

[crashcourse]

BOOOOOO!!!!!

[Jungle Rat]

PNN is dead. They all went home.