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Sandbox – 18sep15

[Aren't the market mavens wonderful?  They ascribe its latest dive to Yellen's keeping the interest rates unchanged (as I predicted), citing that this contributes to market uncertainty.  Well, it apparently didn't contribute to market uncertainty when it was uncertain whether the Fed would raise rates in September, but now that it's certain that they won't, it contributes to uncertainty.  How do these turkeys continue to draw a paycheck, and who believes a word they say about markets or the economy's future?  Most certainly the Fed has destroyed whatever credibility it once had – as posted here – in knowing enough about the economy to predict its direction (note their sterling job on forecasting the recovery).  So what do you think they now base their decisions on whether/when to raise interest rates?  gjr]

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188 responses to “Sandbox – 18sep15”

  1. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    What did I tell you guys nearly 2 months ago now…? Spot on piece.
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2015/09/18/nbc-trump-doing-long-term-damage-republican-brand

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    I thought we would get a token quarter point……just to show “resolve”. Things must be worse than we know.

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The clown car full of democrats and socialists is becoming so funny! Hillary does not know if Obama is a Muslim? What a hoot! Bernies “depends” are leaking!

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  4. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Yup, but I’d take Depends over senility like Old Ronnie.
    Hell, Bernie is robust and working a FT job at 74, around 17 hrs/day. What happened to you Todd?

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So the ‘jon’ says Hillary consented to bills bimbos AND the blow jobs from an intern under the color of authority as a supervisor. LOL How nice for the ‘jon’ that on obscure blogger, even more obscure than he whos name we will not utter agrees with him. 😉

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  6. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    But “O” says the economy is doing great! Unemployment is in the 5’s! Didn’t the FED say they would make an interest hike a when U.P. was in the 6’s? And now the stock market tanks again.
    On another note, See the news today? unlicensed “contractors” get busted.. But what caught my eye was the use of the term “underground economy”. The same words the dopers have been using. The dopers were proud to claim that the “underground economy” is what’s kept the county afloat.
    Too bad Doug K. didn’t get caught. He may care to read that story, since the rules are printed in simple English. ( Not quite the way he said they were).

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Bernie is working? And what job is that? Clown car driver? No, he is too old and in the past. No one except loonie libnuts will vote for him. Hill-Billy the team of clowns will not even get to the nomination. Jail time. Besides, she has never apologized toi the family of the Benghazi victims. She is a tramp.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I can’t wait to see what the Republican platform will be after Trump and Cruz drag them over the cliff. Oh well, support from Women, Blacks, Latinos Gays and people under 25 is not very important. There are enough old white guys to win the election.
    By the way what ever happen to Palin and Bachmann, the last two Republican sweet hearts? Carly should enjoy her little winning streak before being sent home by the Big Boys. As to those who support the good doctor, that crowd apparently doesn’t think that some kind of administrative experience is necessary to be President.
    It will be Biden and Warren in 2016 almost for sure. The only question, and it’s a big one, is if Warren can stomach the TPP which is medicine candidates from both partys will have to take or they’ll be squashed. I’m sure Biden will sign on. The Bush and Clinton clans have been bought and sold for 30 years so they are in. Nobody asked the question at the Pubs debate. I can’t imagine Trump being into it since it’s Obama and the Republican mainstream in the same chorus line on this one. The last thing the Big Boys want is some kind of independent Populist movement gaining too much momentum. Bernie is the only major candidate in either party who has stated his opposition to TPP which is much to his credit.

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    So who are you supporting Paul Emery?

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don’t know yet. I’m hoping Gary Johnson runs again as a Libertarian. I like him. It will be third party for sure. I won’t buy into this lesser of two evils thing. Evil is evil.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    I won’t buy into this lesser of two evils thing. Evil is evil.
    Ah Paul, since you won’t buy into the “lesser of two evils thing”….good call incidentally…. you really need to consider my political organization. We’re new but we have interesting ideas and what we feel is a likely wellspring of potential support! Of course, for numerous arcane, nefarious, and unseemly reasons we are supporting…as I’m sure you are aware…Hillary Clinton.
    Hillary 2016: This time why not vote for the Greatest Evil
    Just let me know and I’ll get some lawn signs and stickers out to you!
    So how much can I count on you to send us?

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  12. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    PaulE 1125am – You might be interested to know that Dr Carson has had extensive administrative experience in his career as a leading pediatric neurosurgeon (My familiarity of his duties comes from having lost a granddaughter to brain cancer after a 9-year-long battle which was managed by another world famous pediatric neurosurgeon).
    However, your “As to those who support the good doctor, that crowd apparently doesn’t think that some kind of administrative experience is necessary to be President.” The gruberized crowd that twice voted in Obama very definitely did not think that “some kind of administrative experience” was necessary for their candidate to become president. But as you demonstrate, the Left is blind to such factors on their own side of the aisle.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    I have to agree with George on this one…..that crowd apparently doesn’t think that some kind of administrative experience is necessary to be President.
    Administrative Experience: It’s what got the United States to where it is today!

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    sight detour to the Fed. Food for thought:
    The last time the privately owned Fed Reserve raised interest rates, the I-Pad was yet to be on the market.

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  15. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gary Johnson is now loony. Too much Ganga! I listened to him numerous times and a person has to be stoned to want that nut as our leader.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A Biden-Warren would generate much enthusiasm from the usual suspects no doubt. It would solve the current Lefty dilemma of “I would like to see a woman as President, but not that woman.”
    Warren as VP one heartbeat from Shotgun Joe would really bring out the white women in droves. And it’s a two-fer-one. Image having the first female as Vice President in the history of the USofA, and having the first female of color as being the VP of the greatest country on earth.
    Biden is no spring chicken, but his deep insights from his vast experience is what we really need in these troubling pessimistic times.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296.63999.217926015008110/730517963748910/?type=1&theater

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Paul, Gary Johnson would be a good pic for you. What puzzles me and I can’t quite wrap my head around is this:
    After reading numerous postings from you about the Repubicrats and both parties are two sides of the same coin, is this really Paul speaking, or has someone stolen our Paul and replaced him with a professional politician from the Demopubican Party?
    Paul, good grief man, get a grip on yourself. Biden? He is everything you have stood opposed to for years. He is the embodiment of everything you declare wrong with our political system. At least check your temperature to see if ya have a fever, which would explain everything. Hang in there Paul, I am sure this will pass.

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  18. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    I didn’t hear Paul supporting Biden (and Warren) as his pick, just as the likely nominee and likely President. Which I agree with. I would have to hear Biden 2016 on the issues as well, but at this point, I would certainly pick him over any of the clowns on the Repub side, save POSSIBLY John Kasich, who I could consider if it came down to Kasich vs. Hillary. Obviously the center/right, experienced Kasich is not going anywhere within that Clown Car which is a damn shame.

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  19. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Prediction 9/18/14: unless something very unexpected happens, your Republican nominee is going to be either Jeb!, Fiorina or Carson. The Big Money has already narrowed this down and will start imposing their will very soon as the other candidates start to financially starve. Trump peaked 2 weeks ago and the slow descent is beginning.

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  20. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Uh oh, the Repubs mired in low single digits are seeing their staff throwing punches at each other. Nice job Trump! A real benefit to the GOP!
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/18/top-rand-paul-aide-accuses-top-rubio-aide-of-punching-him-in-the-face/

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jon | 18 September 2015 at 01:37 PM
    Nice job Trump! A real benefit to the GOP!
    Why would republican election staffers throwing punches at each other trouble you at all?

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Like him or hate him he’s saying good things on most of the issues……..
    https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/second-amendment-rights
    I appreciate his “common sense” gun control proposals!

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  23. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    fish, you’re occasionally cute with your quips but absolutely terrible with picking up sarcasm. And generally when you put exclamation points after something, it means you aren’t particularly troubled. Amused- definitely, surprised at the Royal Rumblings within the GOP- not in the least. Not since the Entertainer, the Stand Up Act from the Catskills joined the group.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Hillary excoriates Trump on not booting the planted questioner on Obama and guess what? She started the “truther” stuff herself in 2008! You just can’t make this stuff up.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    fish, you’re occasionally cute with your quips but absolutely terrible with picking up sarcasm.
    Thank you (Exclamation Point) I’d say that I pick up on decent sarcasm….feel free to interpret that any way you like.
    And generally when you put exclamation points after something, it means you aren’t particularly troubled.
    Uh okay! What would trouble me in the post you reference?
    Amused- definitely, surprised at the Royal Rumblings within the GOP- not in the least. Not since the Entertainer, the Stand Up Act from the Catskills joined the group.
    Ah…another reference to your attempt at sarcasm. Good….. got it now.

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  26. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Good fish, glad neither of us is troubled at this point.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jon @ 1:23 in the pm:
    Holy Delta Smelt!!! Jon is speaking to us from the past. Boy, a major breakthrough for those with homemade time machines:: “Prediction 9/18/14:”. Or is he speaking to us from 2114 or 1814? Or from his usual other dimension? It’s does not matter. What matters most is that I am so excited I am going to build me a clock without any housing and go show the Sheriffs my wonderful invention/ contraption. Sure, it won’t be as cool as jon’s time machine invention, but I am so excited anywhose.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yo Jon, was that being cute or clever? Fish, welcome to the C Club. Hey, gimme my style another Ccccccritique, will ya Jon. Please o pretty pwease. This is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Tanks Jon, tanks a rocket. You wok.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 1:46 pm in The Year of our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen:
    Yo Fish The Cutie pie. Read the whole link but can’t find the donate now button. Whatz up with dat? Help a brother out. Where is the button??

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Would you hire someone with no administrative experience to be CEO of one of your businesses?
    Bill
    My speculations about the elections have no connection to my own preference. I view it the same as sports handicapping. My guess right now is 80-20 for the Dems in the Presidential. The Repub team is going to beat themselves up pretty good in the next year. Jons 1:37 is just one example. It looks like the campaign boys are on steroids. Also there was the incident last week between Huckabay’s goon boy and Cruz where he was given a firm body block to keep him out of the action at the staged Kim Davis ascendancy. Go to about 1:32
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpozrKp7AmU

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, that all makes sense. At this stage of the game, we are all handicappers. It does not bother me in the least that the Republicans will lose the gay vote. Like, Trump or no Trump, kiss their behinds or not, do you really think the Right will ever ever ever grab that 1.2 % of the voters. Yes, 1.2 percent to 2%. Now, off the top of my head, I would say maybe the gays and lesbos and queens would make up 5% of the population. But study after long term study I have drilled into shows it as around 1.2% in total, when you add both the male and female homosexuals together. One gender’s % is usually higher than the other gender. Ah, make it 2.5% just to error on the side of caution, but it is really 1.2%. 🙂
    What gets me is that 8 out of 10 Blacks have an unavorable view of The Trump. Holy Smokes! 20% don’t ???? Unbelievable. Never thought that figure would ever be under 99% of the blacks having an unfavorable view of The Donald. Numbers are great for the Hispanic/Lation community as well. 1 out of 4 don’t hate his guts?? Now look at women. They keep steadily and slowly breaking away and sneak of the Rez to support Trump. A few at a time, a tiny dribble at first, then a small artesian well steady small trickle leak.
    Bottom line; it is even hard to handicap next year’s Super Bowl Winner and place your bets today unless you are a bookie running numbers. I wish we had some Dem debates under our belts to get a pulse of the Demos and the general electret after their hours on Primetime. I expect big shifts right to left then right again for the next year. I will air on the side of caution and say 53-42-5 Dems. That should put an unbiased smile on yer mug.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oops. A link. Don’t know if it is the right link, but a link just the same.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/18/meet-a-latino-supporter-of-donald-trump/

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This is for Jon. Here is a special treat for you, from Fox no less. It’s what you have been trying to vocalize all along and what Dr. Rebane hints at. Doom, massive doom. I love it. tear it down or let it die. It is nature’s way since your kind crawled out of the primordial ooze. My kind were born, but I digress. A peace offering if you will.
    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/08/31/america-youre-watching-beginning-end-republican-party.html?intcmp=sem_outloud

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  34. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    PaulE 420pm – No. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t vote for Obama.
    On the migrant matter. If you decide to migrate from Turkey or Lebanon or Iraq, then you are an economic migrant and illegally enter EU countries under false pretenses.
    http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-seas-edge-a-migrant-family-hesitates-1442618874

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Bill the votes of Gays,Women, Blacks and Latinos are insignificant.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Do Rubio and Cruz have the essential administrative backgrounds for the job?

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  37. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    I f Hell freezes over, and Sanders gets elected, will our military learn the goose step?
    We would then be an official Commie nation.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    PaulE 527pm – Accomplished senators usually do, so I assume so. But I may be wrong.

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  39. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Hillary sure didn’t.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mr. Paul @ 5:13
    Paul, the total number of gay voters is insignificant in election returns. Not that any human or any voter in and of themselves are insignificant. Like, they are people too, dude. That was to avoid the trap. I reckon the majority of the gay and lesbo populations are in blue states overall, which just adds to the overwhelming majority of Democrats already solidly Dem in the electoral college. That is what I am spouting in general terms.
    Having maybe 10% of the black vote at least open minded and maybe 15% of the Latino Salsa vote as a starting point ain’t a bad place to start. From here, we just keep peeling away a few at a time through the Holidays and wait to see what hats and whose hats are tossed in the ring by Feb.
    The rest just causes butt hurt feelings.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Paul. The votes on women are indeed sufficient. Like, they are people, too. Women are Hillary’s base, period. That base is starting to get show stress cracks in it. The idea is when the rats are first the leave a sinking ship, it is best to have a net at the ready to bring them on over. Drip, drip, drip.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Paul, it’s me. People under age 25? They are in the Dem camp historically. In fact, if a young buck votes straight Republican, it makes the news,
    The old campus joke, “Everybody on campus is a liberal, except the accounting majors. They are libertarians.” Nothing new under the sun except if Bernie does not survive Debbi’s Convention, will the young lads and lassies bother to show up and vote for Biden. He is an unknown to them after all these years. joe who? Nothing new under the sun…except free college on a stick dangling before the young minds of oatmeal.

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  43. Ben Emery Avatar
    Ben Emery

    Another example of systemic racism in law enforcement. More big brother for you guys to defend.
    Kamilah Brock: Woman held in mental health facility because police didn’t believe BMW was hers
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-woman-held-in-mental-hospital-because-police-didnt-believe-bmw-was-hers-10498704.html

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Old news, but thanks for sharing.

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Hey Ben Emery, did you attend any of those white cops murdered by black perps this year? You are a real turd sucker.

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    “Turd sucker” Todd? You are a real class act. Haven’t used language like that since Jr High in Oklahoma.

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, this is going swell. Oh Todd, you really know how to get folks to pick on ya. At least you didn’t say turd burglar, which really would have rocked the boat. Always a silver lining.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And while we sleep, the EU is playing the hot potato toss.
    http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/19/world/europe-migrant-crisis/
    Good to see the Swiss belly up to the bar and say “Ah shucks, we’ll take 1,500 if ….if…”

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And while the Ismaiic Fighters try to sleep, the Syrians act like Arabs. Too funny.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/18/rule-no-1-of-islamic-state-etiquette-dont-bogart-cellphone-chargers/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_3_na

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  50. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The lamestreams are trying to make Trump responsible for a loony tune guy at his townhall. This morning the local lames in Sacramento TV were at it too. Why is it that a person has to be personally responsible for a “question” asked by a unknown person at a gathering free to attend? Only if it is a Republican as usual.
    Trump says he on;y heard the end of the question. I think the guy was probably a Hillary or DNC plant.

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