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I've actually been a fan of Burress' for years. He tends towards the absurd in his comedy and some of it lands better than others but I've always liked him. I consider a part of that comedian/social commentator group like Aisha Tyler, W. Kamau Bell, Hari Kondubolu (sp?), and Baratunde Thurston. I doubt he had any idea he would spark such a discussion. He's been telling that joke about Cosby for months. It's telling to me to see people who say "I've never heard of the guy so I don't care what he says." That's about as close-minded and ignorant as you can get.

That explains a lot. I often read your posts and think "There is someone who was raised among animals."

I can't imagine a more perfect supporter for Cosby than you.

Another woman came forward a couple of days ago and now this.They won't be the last. Trust.

So the Senate voted down the Keystone XL pipeline. I really didn't think they would do that. That said, I'm disgusted by the Democrats - most of whom lost their seats in the midterms - who decided to sell out and support this thing. I'm beyond done with blue dogs. I hope Landrieu gets trounced in her runoff.

Interesting to listen to this old comedy routine with a fresh ear.

There's nothing new about that. The people who are most comfortable telling others how to live have no problem committing all manner of dirt in their lives. Pedophile priests, anti-gay activists who turn out to be wide-stance foot tappers, cops who beat their wives and kids, male politicians who scream most loudly about abortion being a sin who turn around and have their mistresses get as many abortions as they need, etc.... Hell even Martin Luther Kind screwed around. It's kind of like the adage that crazy people are the first to want to become therapists. This kind of hypocrisy is baked into the Puritan mindset. People who hold themselves up as an ideal are almost always covering for something in their own lives. And yes, I too hope that Lisa Bonet finds a way to tell what she knows because clearly there was something off there. She must be feeling pretty vindicated right now.

And with that ends any chance of having a decent conversation in this thread.

I don't think it will tarnish his legacy. It will simply be another example of America's history of racism. Sort of akin to how Nelson Mandela was imprisonment doesn't make him look bad so much as what South Africa was at the time.

LMAO! I know right? Impeaching Obama would all but guarantee record turnout of black voters in 2016. I just wish people understood how much of the people's money gets wasted with these shenanigans.

That's what keeps bothering me about the discussion around immigration reform. Where is the punishment for people who hire these folks? We're willing to take everything away from people fleeing violence but where's the same targeting of companies that hire these people?

I have one colleague in the NY office who has pretty much been beside herself ever since the firm announced that we would move the office there and she's not alone. There have already been a few who left the firm and they mentioned in their exit interview that they wanted to get out before the move because they couldn't bring themselves to work there. I have no doubt that when the move actually comes the employee assistance program will be working overtime but the bottom line is that the property is cheap and we could get all the space we need. I didn't see Chris Rock's SNL but from what I've read online he did what he does best: told the truth.

Interesting. I liked Danny. Or more accurately, I liked what Danny could've been. I didn't think Danny was controlling but I wholeheartedly agree that they messed up with him big time. Everything about his relationship with Clara seemed dysfunctional and sketchy. One minute he shows up the next minute they're in LURVE. It was all lies and secrets and plot point baggage. There was never a time when I watched Clara and Danny where I felt like I was watching a real couple that I was supposed to be invested in. They never really resonated with me as a pair.

But then you'd have to live in Texas. Real estate is always cheaper in places that are less attractive. It's supply and demand. It costs a fortune to live in NYC because millions of people want to live in NYC. But comparing the city of New York to the entire state of Texas is apples and oranges. And getting back to the oil/gas boom, housing prices and rent in cities with big fracking operations have exploded. The rents in a small North Dakota town are higher than NYC. Of course with that boom and population has come crime and drugs. You know, that stuff "real" Americans a.k.a. Republicans like to blame on minorities and godless liberals. Then in a few years when the gas is gone and the gas companies have pulled out, there will still be crime and drugs - which get worse because there will be no jobs - and somehow the people left behind will find a way to blame minorities and Democrats instead of the corporations that left them with undrinkable water and undriveable roads When you choose a place to live, there are a lot of factors involved. I love NYC but I wouldn't want to live there unless I had the money. I wouldn't live in Texas even if I won the megamillions. My company's NY office is moving to the new building at Ground Zero and honestly, they're going to have to replace a lot of employees because a lot of them can't stand the idea of working on what is essentially a mass grave. Even the discussions of the move make some people sick.

Tell that to Kansas. As for Texas, its job boom is more a bubble - to use your word - from the oil and gas industry. There's been an increase in those jobs all over the country where fracking has become popular including here in Ohio. Texas also ranks high in poverty (#46), obesity (#15), and teen pregnancy (#5) and I know a few years ago they had the largest percentage of minimum wage workers in any state other than Mississippi. Texas is pretty much a perfect commercial for Republican policies. Whether one thinks that's good or bad obviously depends ones perspective and values. Wall Street deregulation is also a Republican policy. The fact that Clinton signed off on it doesn't change that. He also signed off on lots of GOP garbage like DADT and welfare reform. That was just some of that famous "reaching across the aisle" and "compromising" Democrats like to do so much. The problem there is when the policies fail then the Republicans who championed them disavow any reponsibility and call them Democratic policies.

Was this whole Eugene thing supposed to be a story where the audience figured it out before the characters? Because I haven't seen anybody who believe that Eugene was remotely capable of anything and frankly, the fact that he sabotaged the bus should earn him a bullet to the head or at the very least he should be banished from the group. So we're back to the format where every useless character get his/her own episode? Ugh.

I wish I could figure what it is about this season that isn't working for me. It's not Capaldi. He's perfect. I just don't feel the connection I have with previous seasons. Although this is the first time I have disliked a companion as much as I do Clara. It's not rabid hate or anything but she annoys me terribly. Supposedly this was intended to be a tribute to the soldiers who fought in WWI. If so I found it...off the mark.

Clinton left office with a surplus. Bush left office with the next Great Depression. Republican policies don't work. Look at Brownback's great experiment. He did the same thing to Kansas. Republican policies (low wages for the poor and middle class, low taxes for the rich) kill demand and demand is what drives our economy, not trickle down. It's consumers that are the real job creators yet GOP policy works overtime to reward corporations at the expense of consumers. I spent $10K on home improvement projects this year. The stimulus package included at tax credit I could've claimed on my taxes when I do them next year except it expired in 2013 and the Republicans couldn't be bothered to renew it because they were too busy trying to take away people's health insurance. I, a middle class consumer, created work and revenue for two local companies but the GOP doesn't see me as a job creator. They see companies chasing tax inversions as the real economic drivers. Under Obama we've had 56 months of private sector job growth, the unemployment rate is down to 5.6%, we've had record stock market growth, the deficit is reduced by more than half and the uninsured rate has dropped to new lows and yet Max is waiting for someone here to blame Obama for our "current malaise."

This is why you can't be taken seriously. There's plenty of criticism of Obama in this forum but it doesn't take the exact form you want - which I suspect is one where we all finally "admit" that the Republicans were right all along and how could we ever have been so blind?! - so of course it doesn't exist. Or perhaps you have half the posters in this forum on ignore. That's the only other reason I can see where you would post something easily refuted by simply reading a few pages back. But here you go, Obama IS responsible for a lot of this country's malaise and the reason is he wasted too much time, effort and resources trying to get the GOP to stop acting like sociopaths. He thought that deep down they would do what was best for the country. That was never going to happen and he was a fool for thinking it would especially when they publicly stated that their number one goal was to make him a failure. He kept trying to compromise and find middle ground but there is no middle ground with people who only want your destruction. Hopefully he's learned his lesson. Although I'm not sure he has.

I have no problem when Stewart calls out the Democratic Party for stuff they do. His recent piece on "Obama and the Pussycrats" is a perfect example. But Carl's right. More and more Stewart engages in false equivalency on topics where it doesn't exist. I'm a Jon Stewart fan from way back. I think he's simply gotten tired of this gig. That's why I was very glad to see him take those moths off to make Rosewater. I think he needed to find a new outlet. I have to admit that I watch The Daily Show less and less. They show too many Fox News clips and I've gotten to the point where I can't stomach them even as the set up to a joke. Plus that's another example of the laziness I mentioned. It's easy to make fun of Fox. For some reason Colbert only seems to be getting better as Stewart gets more tired. Maybe it's because Stephen is getting out.

Because Republicans run on hating government so their voters don't care and the ones who do care, i.e. the ones who whine when they are suddenly affected by these bad decisions, blame Obama.

That reporter needs to go. ETA: #pointergate on Twitter is a fun read.

So the GOP is going after the ACA again. So be it. Maybe millions of people losing health insurance will be a nice motivator for 1.) non-voters to get off their asses and 2.) pussified liberals to stop trying to compromise and find middle ground with psychopaths and liars.

What I find more interesting, shocking actually, is how well gun control candidates and measures did. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has been doing handsprings.

The Democratic Party has a lot of work to do and almost no time to do it. I love Debbie Wasserman Schultz but I'd really like to see Howard Dean back in charge of the party. He did the party a lot of good with his 50 state strategy plus he's a street fighter and the party needs as many of them as it can get.