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I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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Republicans do not trust women.

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This blog will pay for itself.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

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I didn’t listen to the live feed of the arrest of the last moron because I thought it was like listening to a snuff film in the making, but I did check the Oregon paper later for a write-up, where I discovered this:

Lost in the final hours of the occupation was the original motive for starting it: the imprisonment of Dwight and Steven Hammond. The militants didn’t mention the Harney County ranchers in the closing moments. Instead, they focused on whether they would be able to live to tell their story.

Fiore gave this advice to militant Sandy Anderson about writing her story: “Be detailed Sandy, be very, very detailed,” Fiore said. “Like that author did in Fifty Shades of Grey.”

It’s only been a month since this:

We’ve reached the phase in our nation where the wingnut right is unspoofable.

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  3. 3.

    Miss Bianca

    “And it is that word ‘detailed,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in “Fifty Flavors of Vanilla…Creamer” at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”

    (with apologies to Dorothy Parker)

  6. 6.

    KG

    We’ve reached the phase in our nation where the wingnut right is unspoofable

    Nah, we’re just really close to the wingularity, so it looks like they’re unspoofable, but don’t worry, they are… I mean, we have the internet for a reason beyond videos of pets and naked people, right?

  9. 9.

    jl

    ” the Harney County ranchers ” means the criminals who slaughtered a heard of deer illegally and then committed arson to cover it up? I guess a case can be made that they got a raw deal with the minimum sentencing laws (as have many others for far lesser offenses), but I think that is what a jury of their peer decided that is what these local ranchers were.

    Or does ” the Harney County ranchers ” mean the neighbors whose property they destroyed without any notice or permission in the cause of some special (Edit: Sovereign Citizen Constitutional) rights and privileges for special buddies of the Bundy Gang?

  11. 11.

    schrodinger's cat

    Bigfoot Cole big foots again, this time an uplifting post celebrating authors in our midst with more news about toddler patriots, who wanted their mommy and their pacifier.

  12. 12.

    Cacti

    @jl:

    Right. What the mean is “the white criminals and terrorists”. But it just never quite comes out that way.

    No one knows why.

  13. 13.

    dedc79

    Fiore gave this advice to militant Sandy Anderson about writing her story: “Be detailed Sandy, be very, very detailed,” Fiore said. “Like that author did in Fifty Shades of Grey.”

    And then i squeezed the bottle of Elmers with all my might, and felt the sweet burn of the glue as it shot up my nostril, and suddenly my pocket Constitution was coming to life, the calligraphy of Article 10 danced off the page and into the air, twisting and turning, red, white and blue, and I began to chant “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution”

  16. 16.

    Calouste

    If you needed any reasons to prefer Trump over Cruz as the Republican nominee, here’s Heidi Cruz talking about her husband (via Rightwingwatch

    When I thought about doing it for our country, it became very clear to me that our family must be in this race. And it also became clear to me that we are at a cultural crossroads in our country and if we can be in this race to show this country the face of the God that we serve — this Christian God that we serve is the foundation of our country, our country was built on Judeo-Christian values, we are a nation of freedom of religion, but the God of Christianity is the God of freedom, of individual liberty, of choice and of consequence.

    And I think that’s something that this country really needs to be reminded of, is that Christians are loving people, are nonjudgmental people, but there is right and wrong, we have a country of law and order, there are consequences to actions and we must all live peaceably in our own faiths under the Constitution. And Ted is uniquely able to deliver on that combination of the law and religion.

  17. 17.

    jake the antisoshul soshulist

    They have been unspoofable for years. We just need to make an annual pilgrimage to the grave of irony.

  18. 18.

    scav

    The utter concern repeatedly voiced about the nice muslims being bombed, despite their evil shariah law, so unlike GOD’S law which the patriots were peacefully camping in support of with the assorted semi-automatic 2nd-Amendment Neighborly-Sticks so that they could have guaranteed jobs and weed, not to mention underscore the plight of the ignored UFOs and leaking Nuclear Reactors (Decaying Infrastructure!) that should really be Solar. That could very well have been Kumbaya that played on the bagpipes as they not-rurrendered out, after their long time spent cleaning the refuge buildings and artifacts after the depredations of the BLM. Nary a cow grazing free was mentioned, neither. For a few seconds, I rather felt like I had wandered into a stealth Ultra-Green Party SuperPac ad.

  19. 19.

    gogol's wife

    @Mnemosyne:

    I only have to see the phrase and I start tearing up (pronounced teer-ing).

    But my new craze is War and Peace. I’m re-watching it online and realizing how much they cut out of the teevee version. I’m also realizing that they mixed up all the battles, but they dramatize them very well and in line with LT’s descriptions.

  20. 20.

    dedc79

    @Calouste: Hmmm…

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

    vs.

    And Ted is uniquely able to deliver on that combination of the law and religion.

  24. 24.

    piratedan7

    you know…. it would be a guilty pleasure to watch this play out on TV if they weren’t busy buying enough ammo to take over a 2nd world country, fucking up our schools with their god bothering and insistence that states rights and slavery are good things. Or if they had any insight (say 19th or 20th century) about civil rights bestowed upon humans of any differentiated sex, creed, color, or orientation. As it is, I just am about of pity party pathos for these people who appear to be even more poniless than effete totebagging liberals.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    @daryljfontaine:

    Oh, I’m fully expecting Obama to break out some Washington Farewell speech before he officially leaves office. “Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I have committed many errors …”

    We’re going to a lecture at the Huntington tonight about the British side of the war and the decisions they made that allowed the colonists to win. Wondering how many “A. Ham” hats will be on display, and the play won’t even be here until next year.

  26. 26.

    ? Martin

    @Calouste: I love how Judeo-Christian values doesn’t actually contain any Judeo values. It’s like grape soda or compassionate conservatism.

  27. 27.

    Benw

    My Time with the Ranchers: The Sandy Anderson Story

    Chapter 1

    One day I went to the wildlife refuge to occupy it with the ranchers. After awhile we gave up. Here is a link to my Gofundme page. Please send me money.

    The End

  31. 31.

    debbie

    There is no more powerful argument for Common Core than these Oregon clowns. There must be standards.

  32. 32.

    gogol's wife

    @Mnemosyne:

    I don’t know if this is streaming, since I don’t really understand what that is, but this is where I’m watching it. I hope it doesn’t disappear.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @The Ancient Randonneur: How many of these asswipes were actual fucking veterans…people who put their lives on the line for ungrateful garbage such as themselves, and oh by the way, The Donald and the Bush Crime Family.

  35. 35.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @srv: Um, no.

    The X Files just cashed in on the crazy that was already out there. The JBS has been around since the end of WWII. Before them you had the Silver Shirts, the Klan, the Know-Nothings…the entire fucking Confederacy.

  36. 36.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: If the inadequate blah president said those words, the wingnuts and GOP would erupt in outrage. Obama would disgrace the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States! What would George Washington think? He’d be spinning in his grave.

  37. 37.

    lamh36

    OT, but this makes me sooo mad right now. Fuq’n Bobby Jindal

    Thanks, to Bobby Jindal and all the folks who supported and voted to keep him in 2X. Yeah go ahead and blame the poor or the new Gov who only been in office for what 1 month…NOPE look yourselves in the face and your children and remember you voted for Jindal to do something bout them “welfare” folks and he did just that…he cut funding to public hospitals, closed them all, closed mental health, cut public services but kept tax cuts and incentives for the oil companies, and the old money businessmen in Louisiana…So please…miss me with the blame for the poor folks on welfare and such….thx Bobby!

    The TOPS program has been a main resources for students being able to get a higher education since at least the time I was in high school…for over 20 years…

    Now thanks to Louisiana’s “historic budget shortfall”…this is where we are…

    TOPS payments suspended amid looming Louisiana budget crisis

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    @Calouste:
    Gosh, she seems nice.

    Pivoting briefly to Texas; Texas, why you so crazy?

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is being probed for ethics violations for telling county clerks that they could deny marriage licenses to same sex-couples, another potential setback for the state’s top lawyer, who is already facing felony charges. The Texas Bar Association ordered its Board of Disciplinary Appeals this week to look into Paxton and his office, Houston attorney Eddie Rodriguez said on Thursday. If Paxton is found to have an ethics violation, he could be disbarred, which means he could no longer serve as attorney general.

    Attorneys who asked for the probe said Paxton acted illegally in asking that state officials violate the U.S. Constitution by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples, in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that made gay marriage legal nationally.

    “Attorney General Paxton has a right to disagree with a ruling of the Supreme Court. Lawyers do that every single day. What makes a difference is that you cannot encourage people to violate that ruling and that law,” said Rodriguez, who led the call for the probe.

    Paxton’s office said in a statement: “This complaint has always lacked merit, and we are confident the legal process for resolving these complaints will bear that out.”

    A day after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in June legalizing same-sex marriage, Paxton put out a statement saying county clerks could deny the licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds. He also said numerous lawyers were ready to help clerks who cited religious liberty as a reason to deny a license. He added the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution.

    Folks keep proclaiming Texas’ “purple statehood” but I can see no evidence from here in the bleachers. Your morons (statehouse, congress) continue to be more moronic, not less.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    @redshirt:

    The guy who wrote “Hamilton” is doing some work for the same Giant Evil Corporation that I work for — does that count?

    I’m only one degree of separation from the guy through work contacts. So frustrating.

  43. 43.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    @KG:

    we have the internet for a reason beyond videos of pets and naked people, right?

    You should probably clarify that you mean videos of pets and naked people as two separate categories of videos, not necessarily videos of pets and naked people.

    As Scully said to Mulder, “…the Internet isn’t good for you.”

    As for holding up Fifty Shades of Grey as a template for writing…anything…Christ, why isn’t that surprising in the slightest? There’s just this whole subtext of sexual fucked-up-ness with these people. Were they all sexually abused as kids or something? This is a serious question.

  51. 51.

    jl

    @Baud: Blaming Obama for failing me today is so past and old.

    As of right now I am pre-blaming the future Baud! 2016! administration for how it has already failed me over the coming year.

    And if I have a typical year coming up, could mean problems for Baud! And I note that he has not even responded that critical test of his administration yet.

    Baud FLOPS.

  52. 52.

    nutella

    @Calouste:

    Wow, that’s some horrifying stuff. Almost every sentence contradicts the one before.

    I wonder if the constitution she’s talking about living under is the actual constitution of the US or the imaginary one of the Bundys and their friends?

  55. 55.

    NotoriousJRT

    Michele Fiore is bat shit crazy, and I am sorry she was allowed to play any role (however positive) in this clown show.

  56. 56.

    jl

    Does not bode well…

    Rubio Says He Chipped A Tooth On A Frozen Twix
    TPM
    He told journalists the molar mishap happened while he was on a plane. “I just bit into a Twix bar and I go, ‘Man this Twix bar’s got something really hard in it,’” Rubio said. “And I go, ‘Oh my gosh, I cracked my tooth.’”

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rubio-chips-tooth-frozen-twix

    Edit: I can have some empathy with W and the pretzel, but…

  58. 58.

    lamh36

    @Baud: oh…the comments on the FB page are already blaming Obama and the new governor who’s been in the office for ONE MONTH…

    Naw…it’s Obama and welfare recipients…fuckers…

  60. 60.

    beltane

    @jl: Is that for real? This election is completely blurring the boundaries between real and unreal, parody and fact.

  61. 61.

    jl

    @lamh36: Sorry to hear that news. Hard blow to a lot of kids in Louisiana, and a shame. Hope that the mess Jindal left can be cleaned up asap.

  62. 62.

    jl

    @beltane: If Rubio repeated himself several times during the interview before he noticed, and apologized to his staff for not memorizing his line properly, then I guess we’ll know it’s real.

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    @jl: It’s not the ONLY thing the new Gov has chosen to cut, but it the biggest news cause, it literally affects thousands of students.

    The locals news station:

    “WDSU News This is a huge concern. Some students may have to drop out of school.”

  64. 64.

    Keith G

    @Mnemosyne:

    The guy who wrote “Hamilton” is doing some work for the same Giant Evil Corporation that I work for — does that count?

    So next the movie (directed by J.J. Abrams?). And after that the ride (or should I say, The Experience?).

  65. 65.

    nutella

    AP has the weird idea that the occupiers/trespassers/felons of Malhuer should be referred to as ‘armed ranchers’. Only one of them, as far as I know, lived on or owned a ranch and he (Finicum) did not make his living from it.

    Only one of them, as far as I know, was from Oregon. The rest were all outside agitators, carpetbaggers shouting about local control when none of them were local and the people who actually live in Harney County wanted them out.

    Now we learn that Sandy Anderson was there to gather material for a book. All those federal employees out of work, all those local people inconvenienced, all those LEOs working overtime, occupiers jailed and one dead, and she’s using it as a writing project.

    I hope that one of the laws preventing felons from profiting from their crimes will be applicable to her.

  66. 66.

    Keith G

    @jl:

    Rubio Says He Chipped A Tooth On A Frozen Twix

    It happened what he bit down on it again, and again, and again.

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    @jl

    Because there’s simply no other way to determine if something is frozen other than sticking it in one’s mouth.

    Although, come to think of it, the Republicans are probably immune to brain freeze, what with lacking the requisite organ and all.

  69. 69.

    jl

    @lamh36:

    ” Some students may have to drop out of school ”

    That is very sad, and infuriating. I didn’t think about all that suspending payments implied.
    I hope people really make a fuss and find a way to at least keep partial payments going to those who are already in the program. Cutting off kids after they get into a program is just too nasty and mean.

    State should try to make at least partial payments to those already in the program, even if they have to end new awards. And State should make a big appeal to get some stop-gap private funding to take care of those already in the program. Start some GoFundMe sites?

    People in LA should make a big fuss and see if there is some way to not cut them off.

  71. 71.

    Technocrat

    @NotMax:

    This idea that frozen Twix bars should be chewed gingerly is a fantasy. Marco knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he bit it.

  72. 72.

    lamh36

    Shit…and it could get worse…

    Damn… I’m hoping this is a negotiation tactic…or at the very least NOT true…

    WDSU News

    BREAKING: Sources tell WDSU that Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will have dates of closures for select universities if the Legislature does not act to bring in additional revenue for the current fiscal year’s budget shortfall.

  73. 73.

    Gimlet

    http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/02/11/998130/us-republicans-had-urged-iran-to-delay-prisoner-swap-shamkhani-says

    TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said a recent prisoner exchange between Iran and the US went ahead as planned despite calls by Republicans for a delay until US presidential elections.

    “In the course of the talks for exchanging prisoners, the Republican rivals of the current US administration who claim to be humanitarians and advocates of human rights sent a message telling us not to release these people (American prisoners) and continue this process (of talks) until the eve of US presidential elections,”

    The release of the inmates came hours before the official start of a nuclear deal finalized by Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) back in July 2015.

  74. 74.

    jl

    @nutella: And exactly none of them were ranchers in Harney County, though I read one guy nearby sent them some beef. The ranchers near the refuge I read about in the news were more likely to be armed to keep the Bundy crooks off their land in case they came around and started wrecking stuff again.

  75. 75.

    lamh36

    @NBCNightlyNews
    BREAKING: Sec. Kerry: Agreement reached for nationwide “cessation of hostilities” in Syria within 1 week; does not include ISIS or al-Nusra.

  78. 78.

    Gimlet

    Last Fall?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-foundation-received-subpoena-from-state-department-investigators/2016/02/11/ca5125b2-cce4-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html

    February 11

    Investigators with the State Department issued a subpoena to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation last fall seeking documents about the charity’s projects that may have required approval from the federal government during Hillary Clinton’s term as secretary of state, according to people familiar with the subpoena and written correspondence about it.

    The subpoena also asked for records related to Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide who for six months in 2012 was employed simultaneously by the State Department, the foundation, Clinton’s personal office, and a private consulting firm with ties to the Clintons.

  79. 79.

    p.a.

    @lamh36:

    Damn… I’m hoping this is a negotiation tactic…or at the very least NOT true…

    WDSU News

    BREAKING: Sources tell WDSU that Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will have dates of closures for select universities if the Legislature does not act to bring in additional revenue for the current fiscal year’s budget shortfall.

    I hope it’s a tactic also, but La. Rethugs seem to be on the frontline of the ‘anthrax and tire rims, brigade.

  82. 82.

    jl

    @lamh36: thanks for some good news, if it happens. There will be some yelling about treason for at least two reasons over next few weeks. Wonder which ones the news will think worthy of coverage.

  86. 86.

    goblue72

    This is all going to seem quaint and even more comedic in six months when the country is diving head-first into a recession. The next few months are going to see economic volatility push all this aside.

    Central bank engineered asset inflation is running out of a steam with little to show for it in the Main Street economy. The Bank of Japan this week basically surrendered and Abenomics is likely at its end. The PIIGS are about to squeal again, while the largest bank in Germany has taken to issuing proclamation of “DON’T WORRY – WE HAVE ENOUGH MONEY – WE PROMISES!”. Fed Chair Yellen today declared in response to whether the Fed would consider negative interest rates “I wouldn’t take those off the table.” – which is major turnabout from just a few months ago when a sequence of 25 basis point increases were being assumed by Fed watchers. Crude closed today at it lowest price since 2003 – and is trading at 75% below its June 2014 peak – and there isn’t much end in sight.

    You think people are pissed at the banks now? Just wait unit they take us on recession round 2 for an economy where 90% of the country still hasn’t clawed back what it lost last time around. What will the Establishment say then?

  89. 89.

    lamh36

    @WWLTV 42s42 seconds ago
    Edwards: Safety net hospitals will close in places like Lake Charles, Bogolusa if budget not fixed

    @WWLTV 7s7 seconds ago
    Edwards: LSU main campus will run out of money by April 30th if budget not fixed. Southern University in the same boat.

    @WWLTV 6m6 minutes ago
    Edwards says while Jindal came into office with a surplus, he has been given an almost billion dollar deficit.

    ‏@WWLTV 7m7 minutes ago
    Edwards: We have just 3 weeks, starting this Sunday, to make the changes we need.

    @WWLTV 1m1 minute ago
    If you are a student there, you will receive a grade of incomplete, student athletes will not be able to play.

  91. 91.

    MomSense

    @lamh36:

    Damn. We are dealing with the same mentality from our governor here in Maine. He said the other day that he is going to appoint himself commissioner of education. They are always trying to destroy. Constant destruction.

  92. 92.

    lamh36

    Yeah…bet this will make fuckers pay attention to what Jindal azz did to the state

    @WWLTV 2m2 minutes ago
    If budget not fixed, college football season will be gone.

  94. 94.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Keith G: Statement from the Twix people: “Let’s just dispel with this notion that biting into a Twix will crack your tooth unless you’re an android.”

  100. 100.

    SIA

    The four remaining occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns panicked over a live telephone feed as FBI agents brought in armored vehicles and moved into the compound yesterday:

    At one point on the audio, Sean Anderson was heard yelling, “Did your boss send you here to kill innocent Americans?”

    At another point, an agent over a loudspeaker said: “David, I want to talk to you.”

    “What do you want?” Fry replied, then yelled, “You guys killed LaVoy” and “You let Obama bring terrorists into our country.”

    There was plenty more of that in the feed, to be sure. LaVoy Finicum, shot and killed while reaching into his jacket during a traffic stop, has become the latest militia martyr. “Just shoot me,” he yelled at officers moments before. (The FBI video is here.)

    The group is expected to surrender this morning, but “only if escorted by Nevada politician Michele Fiore and Franklin Graham,” reports KGW TV Portland.

    LOL Goobers

  103. 103.

    debbie

    @lamh36:

    I so hope this is true. Not two hours ago, I listened to an NPR report about the negotiations and it was being reported that the three-week delay in the ceasefire showed that Russia held all the power in the room while the US had none.

  104. 104.

    SIA

    FYWP trying again without the link, via Digby:

    The four remaining occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns panicked over a live telephone feed as FBI agents brought in armored vehicles and moved into the compound yesterday:

    At one point on the audio, Sean Anderson was heard yelling, “Did your boss send you here to kill innocent Americans?”

    At another point, an agent over a loudspeaker said: “David, I want to talk to you.”

    “What do you want?” Fry replied, then yelled, “You guys killed LaVoy” and “You let Obama bring terrorists into our country.”

    There was plenty more of that in the feed, to be sure. LaVoy Finicum, shot and killed while reaching into his jacket during a traffic stop, has become the latest militia martyr. “Just shoot me,” he yelled at officers moments before. (The FBI video is here.)

  106. 106.

    Miss Bianca

    @goblue72:

    Deutsche Bank’s troubles ain’t official till they’ve issued the official Soviet-style denial: “There was no riot in Red Square today. No protestors were shot. There have been no bad loans.”

  108. 108.

    boatboy_srq

    @Grumpy Code Monkey: Having spent seven years in RC schools and four years amongst the SBC undergrads….

    Well, you would be surprised at the few instances of criminal child abuse/endangerment, but the programming would come as no surprise whatever. Added plus: some of the nastiest, oiliest pervs I’ve ever met were in that crowd. There’s small wonder that so much sleaze trails from the borders of their oh-so-civilized enclaves when there’s so much ick lying just beneath the surface of their Cloaks of Righteousness. “Married and cheating” approaches normal. They are the reason Ashley Madison and Tinder have done so well. Not the least bit surprising that so many brought up in that atmosphere are so sexually messed up.

  109. 109.

    Feathers

    @gogol’s wife: Thanks for the heads up on it streaming on Prime. I keep looking for it, but getting distracted before making it to Amazon.

    If you want the whole thing, it is well worth chasing down the Mosfilm version from the 60s. Nearly eight hours long, it was released as four separate films (like the Marvel films today, hee!). The acting is very good, but what makes it a must see is the battle scenes. The production was lent the Red Army, so the battles were filmed on the actual battlefield whenever possible, using the actual number of soldiers who fought, in replica uniforms.

    Here’s a link to Roger Ebert’s review (from 1969!). He posits that this film and Gone With the Wind are the two great epic films of cinema history, and that War and Peace is the better of the two.

    Now I’m making myself want to watch the whole thing again, after watching the new one. I checked and my library has it. I saw it onscreen in high school, when I was studying Russian. It is on DVD – be sure to get the widescreen version!

  110. 110.

    boatboy_srq

    @Grumpy Code Monkey: Afterthought: writing a la Fifty Shades actually implies some reading skills. If you want an illustration of how unusual that actually is, take a look at the new home designs popping up. I swear to FSM that builders are convinced that nobody not pulling down mid six figures or higher actually reads: there is no place in these houses for a single bookshelf.

  111. 111.

    catclub

    @goblue72:

    Central bank engineered asset inflation is running out of a steam with little to show for it in the Main Street economy.

    so no real difference between 10% unemployment and 4.9% unemployment?

    Long and steady ( and slow) GDP growth is no different from 5% contraction of gdp?

    GM and Ford had their best year ever.

  113. 113.

    Goblue72

    @catclub: None of which has trickled down to the middle and working classes in term of real wage growth in an inflation adjusted basis.

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