Saturday, February 18, 2017

Knocked Out?

The GOP claimed that an unruly mob knocked a House staffer unconscious.

Then, we find out the staffer wasn't ''knocked'' at all. She simply FAINTED while taking questions. *S* 








From Talking Points Memo: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/chaffetz-breaks-utah-gop-call-delay-town-halls-violence






The Utah GOP’s letter also used sensationalist language, attributing
its decision to urge lawmakers to hold tele-town halls to “angry leftist
mobs” who have “displayed hostile, violent, and deliberately disruptive
behavior.”





It also misrepresented a Tuesday incident at the Huntington Beach,
California district office of a Republican lawmaker, claiming the local
branch of progressive group Indivisible “knocked a 71-year-old staffer
for Congressman Dana Rohrabacher unconscious.”





As TPM previously reported,
in stark contrast to Rohrabacher's incendiary statement describing a
"mob" that attacked his staffer, Huntington Beach police characterized
the incident as an accident. The staffer fell to the ground after
accidentally hitting the 2-year-old daughter of a protester with the
office door. While the staffer told police she hit her head, she did not
become unconscious as a result of the fall, and instead fainted later
during an interview with police. She was eventually taken to the
hospital by a friend.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Pale Caught Lying Again

438 PM: Palerider [Quote] -- 11:06am -- Fri, Feb 10, 17 pst
PaleRider
Dan Walters is a huge strawman, no matter how much you jump up and down, I
posted nothing from him



Oh, my! Pale's doubling down on his lying!

Pale plagiarized a Dan Walters piece and presented it as his own. I archived his post.




82 PM: Palerider [Quote] -- 9:46am -- Fri, Feb 10, 17 pst
Palerider
For many years, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and
other state and local pension systems have assumed earnings, technically
called the “discount rate,” in the 7.5 percent to 8 percent range, and
they seemed to be generally on target.



With that assumption, California’s unfunded pension liabilities – the gap
between what the funds expect to have and what retirees will be owed – are
roughly $450 billion.



That’s a big number, but investment earnings have stumbled in the last
couple of years. CalPERS gained 2.4 percent in 2014-15 and a minuscule 0.6
percent in 2015-16.



That generally was the experience of other California
and national systems as well.

Were pension fund overseers to drop their discount rates to the 4 percent
range, roughly the rate private corporate systems use, California’s
unfunded liabilities would probably surpass $1 trillion.



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 In fact the piece Pale presented as his own DID come from a right wing blog. And it IS an opinion piece. And here is the URL.







http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/dan-walters/article100871752.html



483   PM:   Palerider   [Quote]     -- 11:15am -- Fri, Feb 10, 17 pst



PaleRider

Oh, that single paste, I stand corrected, the more current estimate was

from Walters in the Sacramento Bee



But its not a blog either



Yes, it IS a blog.  That's why it has an "About This Blog" section.





https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDNIIHjwrSWlxZqriynwbt35Q_MfiSOzI7FBA46BkL5rUV4HRG56XBTHkcBRKIt3mSgcI8nDRB6cHXsLX47Px9ArPhmiUqym7HK6HFf656lbbGWV4-KB0PfngR0AbooGw7SQA-1Cntgg/s1600/opinion2.JPG





http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/dan-walters/article100871752.html