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    Donald Trump was in Phoenix this weekend, and claims between 10,000 and 20,000 people came out to see him.

    The problem? He claims that many showed up to see him in the Phoenix Convention Center's Ballroom 120, which personally know the capacity of from Phoenix Comicon. Fire code only allows 4,200 in that room. So now Trump is saying they're disputing his attendance because they're afraid to admit they violated the fire code.

    There is no way in hell that room was that crowded. It's physically impossible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Donald Trump was in Phoenix this weekend, and claims between 10,000 and 20,000 people came out to see him.

    The problem? He claims that many showed up to see him in the Phoenix Convention Center's Ballroom 120, which personally know the capacity of from Phoenix Comicon. Fire code only allows 4,200 in that room. So now Trump is saying they're disputing his attendance because they're afraid to admit they violated the fire code.

    There is no way in hell that room was that crowded. It's physically impossible.
    The Donald? LIE? Nooooooooooo. That's impossible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post

    There is no way in hell that room was that crowded. It's physically impossible.
    Not even the law of physics can stop the Donald.

    All jokes aside, it was a quiet week for Trump. He had to do something to get attention.
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    Quote Originally Posted by emac1790 View Post
    Not even the law of physics can stop the Donald.

    All jokes aside, it was a quiet week for Trump. He had to do something to get attention.
    Well, yeah. SOMEBODY's doing the attention whoring!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Well, yeah. SOMEBODY's doing the attention whoring!
    The Donald? An attention whore? Say it ain't so!
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    An actual comment from a Texas Newspaper's webpage.

    Its no secret that the military can control the weather. Its called the HAARP project and its operated out of secret military bases. There is one in alaska that no one is permitted to go to. They use giant ionizing columns to change the ionosphere that then influence cloud formation, the jet stream and hurricanes.

    There is no doubt obama is using this to punish Texas for standing up to him. Governor Perry was an honest leader who stood up to Obama. But Obama being the person he is, used secret army tech such as Brain Controling Microwave to derail the governors presidency bid. What else could be the explanation to how he lost memory when he was on the tv debates. I expect this to happen again this time.

    There is no doubt that since Obama Texas has been on the receiving end of so many weather problems. First the hurricanes, then the tornadoes, then the drought, now flooding. Its a cover up for more governement control and take over of second amendment rights and our guns.

    I am very suspicious about floods
    That's right, guys. Obama caused the flooding in Texas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    An actual comment from a Texas Newspaper's webpage.



    That's right, guys. Obama caused the flooding in Texas.

    THANKS OBAMA.
    I heard it was super-hot in Phoenix yesterday when Trump had his rally there.

    COINCIDENCE?
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    So, now Obama went from the Manchurian Candidate silliness straight into Bond villain territory. And these people are voting. :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Speaking of which, update on Walker Watch!


    He has officially signed the new state budget, which doesn't raise taxes, freezes tuition, cut university funding by $250 million, and doesn't bother addressing the highway situation.
    The article also comes with a nice list of his vetoes as well.

    Also, that bill comes with drug testing as well!

    Just ahead of his official announcement that he’s running for president, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed his state’s budget into law while vetoing 104 items Sunday, twice as many as in the last two budgets. One significant change would make it easier for the state to drug test anyone who applies for food stamps.
    Walker removed a provision that would have limited the tests to applicants with “reasonable suspicion,” saying the administration shouldn’t have limits on who it wants to screen. But that move puts the state at a real risk of being sued, given that Florida’s law drug testing all welfare applicants was struck down by the courts as a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s “unreasonable search and seizure” clause.
    The presidential hopeful’s original proposal also planned to pay for free drug treatment and job training for those who tested positive, but another change he made on Sunday eliminated the free treatment. While his first proposal made it difficult to determine how much the drug testing program would cost the state, the official policy will now leave impoverished people who have limited health insurance no way to afford drug treatment.
    The drug testing program, if it were ever to become reality, would still potentially carry a higher price tag than any savings gained from rescinded benefits to people who tested positive. Florida’s program came at a cost to the state before it was ended by the courts, and the seven states with existing programs drug testing welfare applicants have spent nearly $1 million on them collectively. That cost would come at a time when Walker has been trying to plug a hundred-million-dollar budget shortfall.
    Walker said the drug tests would “make sure [recipients are] free of drugs,” adding, “Because we know if they’re free of drugs they know — or they have basic employability skills — we can find a job for anyone in the state of Wisconsin.” But drug testing public benefit applicants has not been a good method for rooting out widespread drug use. In the states with active programs, positive drug test rates have been below 1 percent in all but one, and all of them are below the national drug use rate of 9.4 percent. Meanwhile, without the guarantee of treatment, a positive test and ban from food stamps may do little to rid someone of any serious addiction.
    So... his profile is coming soon, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Copper View Post
    So, now Obama went from the Manchurian Candidate silliness straight into Bond villain territory. And these people are voting. :P
    Frightening, ain't it? They say everything is bigger in Texas, I guess that includes conspiracy nuts.

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    Man, the GOP is gonna have to go from clown car to clown van! Isn't there some sort of cutoff on how many candidates can waste the public's time running for president?
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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    Speaking of which, update on Walker Watch!


    He has officially signed the new state budget, which doesn't raise taxes, freezes tuition, cut university funding by $250 million, and doesn't bother addressing the highway situation.
    The article also comes with a nice list of his vetoes as well.

    Also, that bill comes with drug testing as well!

    So... his profile is coming soon, right?
    Yes. It will be. I've put him off for far too long for just being "crooked", but the more he's in the spotlight, the more clear it is that he's worthy.
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    It's our latest reminder of what a crock the statement "Nuh uh. Both parties are just as bad." actually is...

    It’s Your Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day!
    One year ago on this date, we looked at the now retired, but always wacky Libertarian/GOP Senator from Texas, and former presidential candidate Ron Paul. As he has officially retired and been slowly fading from view to not overshadow his own son, Rand's political aspirations, I'm going to skip updating his profile, and giving this day to another member of the party to focus on at this time.(Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 367-12, since this was established in July 2014.)


    Steve Brunk

    Kansas government has gone crazy the past several years, and Steve Brunk of the Kansas House of Representatives is yet another man who makes it easy to believe getting sucked up into a tornado and sent to Oz would be a far safer plan for its people. Brunk has served in the state legislature since 2002, breezing to victory in the past three elections by over thirty-point margins. Brunk actually simultaneously works for ALEC, the organization which writes legislation for corporate interests to hand off to state legislators to present on the floor of state legislatures. So by having a guy already on the inside, it cuts out the middle-man for corporations to have to lobby him. Which really helps you to understand who's best interests he has at heart. It's no wonder he's such a big ally of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, really. Heck, in February 2015 when Brownback signed an executive order to reverse former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' 2007 order to end sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace so people could fire LGBT employees, just because, one of his only vocal defenders was Brunk.

    What really brought Brunk to our attention was back in February of 2010, when he and other Kansas lawmakers were considering a law that would bar insurance providers from covering elective abortions, unless a woman specifically paid extra for a special plan. The problem obviously, is that such coverage would have forced women to “plan for a completely unexpected event.” The bill “wouldn’t apply to abortions performed to save the life of a woman, or to pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.” Even more shocking, a woman would have had to provided a copy of a police report where she reported any rape or incest to receive the exception. Critics of this bill voiced their concerns regarding it, and Brunk stepped in to help them understand... by comparing rape to auto theft:

    That's the sort of statement that puts a guy in the territory of someone like Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock, and yet, Steve Brunk has just kept trucking along in his political career.

    So you might say, "Well, an insensitive comment about rape isn't something that should end a guy's political career. That's not TOO crazy."

    Okay... then what would you say if you heard that Steve Brunk is also the same guy who in February of 2013 submitted a bill to the floor of the Kansas legislature that would require cities that fluoridate their water supplies to tell their citizens that doing so "that the latest science confirms that ingested fluoride lowers the I.Q. in children." Because that sort of statement isn't just a lie, it's the stuff of paranoid conspiracy theories that you would expect from the John Birch Society. And yet, Brunk is still around.

    The past several months, Brunk has still been on his moral high horse, this time trying to work on legislation to make it harder for married people to get divorced in Kansas to "protect the institution of marriage". Unfortunately, that way of thinking fails to acknowledge that sometimes, people in abusive marriages really should just be allowed to get divorced from an abusive spouse, without being forced into a room with them for mandatory counseling attempts, or being pressured into staying because there suddenly is a greater financial cost involved. Oh, and of course Brunk is opposed to same-sex marriage, having voted for an unsuccessful version of one of those "Religious Freedom" bills in Kansas that would allow Christian businesses to discriminate against gays. But he keeps winning re-election handily.

    And, in the current legislative session, Brunk has also been hell bent on outlawing abortion in as many scenarios as he can think of. Back near the start of 2015, he was talking about banning abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected (which would effectively be a ban at 6 weeks). Not only have the courts in other states where such legislation has been pitched seen those laws tossed out as unconstitutional, but there's the fact that detecting a fetal heartbeat almost always requires a mandatory trans-vaginal ultrasound. Brunk settled instead for an attempt to ban the "dilation and evacuation" procedure in 2nd trimester abortions, but that was also overturned by the courts, much to the chagrin of pro-life advocates, who want to appeal that decision.

    Here are a few other sad moments from Brunk's voting record through the years, as Kansas politics have spiralled into madness around him:


    I can only emphasize this so many times... this man wins re-election by thirty-plus points. What the hell, Kansas? Are you trying to find rock bottom, or something?
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    from the Northeast here

    land of left of center local government but center to right state leadership

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Yes. It will be. I've put him off for far too long for just being "crooked", but the more he's in the spotlight, the more clear it is that he's worthy.
    Walker really is as crooked as it gets. Of all the clown car Repbulicans, he's one of the ones that worries me a lot -- not because he can win, but because of the horrible damage he's done to Wisconsin being replicated nation wide.

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