Fox Tries Conning Viewers, Workers Should Be ‘Grateful’ For No Overtime Pay

FAIL

Would you really ever believe someone trying to tell you they’re grateful for NOT receiving overtime pay? Hell no, you wouldn’t.

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'The Other NRA'

'The Other NRA': This Influential Restaurant Lobby Fights Pro-Worker Policies

Bad Cops

Deranged Cop Caught On Camera Brutalizing Colorado Man 

Newly released video, published by Fox 31, shows police corporal Mark Magness exploding into a fit of rage, following the arrest of a 48-year-old Federal...

Anti-Vaxxers Are Assholes

First American Dies Of Measles In 12 Years Because Anti-Vaxxers Are Assholes

Well, anti-vaxxers should really feel like shit right now. For 12 years, not a single American has died because of the measles...

Satanist Schools Fox News On The Constitution

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly invited the Satanic Temple’s Lucien Greaves on, and wound up with a lot of egg on her face.

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This Airline Just Invested Millions Into Turning Garbage Into Jet Fuel

It's the largest investment by United in alternative jet fuels, but it is not the first.

Bernie Sanders Is Gaining Ground Fast In Iowa

Sanders has closed the gap In Iowa. In May, he trailed Hillary Clinton 60-15. Now he is down just 52-33.

According to a Quinnipiac Poll released On July 2, 2015, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is closing ground on Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The survey of 761 likely Democratic Caucus attendees, finds Bernie Sanders’ support has risen from 15 percent in the May poll to 33 percent in the July survey. Sanders was at just 5 percent in February.

While Sanders still trails Hillary Clinton by a sizable 52-33 margin, he has significant momentum. In May, he trailed by 35 percentage points. Sanders is viewed favorably by 66 percent of likely Democratic Caucus voters, and viewed unfavorably by just 8 percent.

Furthermore, 72 percent of those voters say he “cares about their needs and problems” to just 7 percent who do not agree with that statement. 71 percent of likely Democratic Caucus-goers feel Sanders is honest and trustworthy. A mere 5 percent believe he is not honest and trustworthy.

Iowa Democrats strongly like both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, so the Sanders vote does not appear to be an anti-Hillary voting bloc, as much as it appears to be voters who simply prefer Sanders’ more progressive political positions. Sanders leads Clinton among very liberal voters, albeit by a relatively slim 47-43 margin.

The Quinnipiac poll also makes it clear that Clinton and Sanders are the only viable candidates in the Democratic Caucuses. Vice President Joe Biden, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb, and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee managed just 11 percent support combined, with none of the candidates garnering more than single digit support.

Sanders is consistently drawing large crowds across the country, as his message of economic populism keeps resonating with voters. As he continues to make his passionate voice heard, more and more voters are lining up to support his campaign. While he remains well behind Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination, he is closing the gap fast. If his momentum continues, he could pull off a big Iowa surprise in February 2016.

Republicans almost have enough candidates for 2016 to throw their own 'Hunger Games'

Obama: Republicans almost have enough candidates for 2016 to throw their own 'Hunger Games'

Jurassic World

Maine Legislative Committee Votes Unanimously To Investigate Wingnut Teabagger LePage

The unanimous vote to investigate LePage is a sign that even his own cabal has grown weary of the bullying tactics he uses to get his demented way.…

The members of Maine’s legislative Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously to launch a formal investigation into whether Republican Paul LePage improperly used taxpayer money to force Good Will-Hinckley to fire House Speaker Mark Eves.

Eves, a Democrat, had been hired by Good Will-Hinckley to serve as its President, but the offer was withdrawn after LePage allegedly threatened to withhold 530,000 dollars in annual funding for Good Will-Hinckley’s Charter School, the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences. LePage has admitted that he threatened to pull funding unless Good Will-Hinckley terminated their employment agreement with Eves, but the governor insists what he did does not amount to blackmail.

Good Will-Hinckley has agreed to pay Eves 30,000 dollars for severing the employment contract. Eves is planning on filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against Governor LePage for his role in forcing Good Will-Hinckley to end the employment agreement.

The bipartisan Government Oversight Committee has six Democratic and six Republican members. Members of both parties are calling for an investigation. Republican cabal co-chair Roger Katz, wasn’t quite prepared to throw his moron under the bus, but even he acknowledged that the moron’s behavior warranted an investigation. Katz stated:

The events of the last few weeks involving Good Will-Hinckley are troubling and, as often happens in partisan politics, it seems that some people are going to their corners and are ready to fight. Most people in Maine just want to know what happened.

LePage’s legal team argues that the Government Oversight Committee does not have the authority to investigate the governor. Eves’ attorney, David Webbert rejected that absurd argument, stating:

The governor’s wrongful refusal to submit to any oversight by the Legislature regarding his use of funds appropriated by the Legislature is consistent with his wrongful and dangerous view that he can use state funds to blackmail a school with the threat of the loss of state funds.

LePage and his legal team seem to believe that the moron should be allowed to do as he pleases without accountability or oversight. However, members of both parties in the legislature disagree with LePage’s dictatorial view of the governor’s scope of authority. The unanimous vote to investigate the governor is a sign that even his own cabal has grown weary of LePage’s corruption and the bullying tactics he uses to get his way.

Fox News’ Eric Bolling Says Progressive Boycotts are Economic Terrorism

The gang on Fox News' The Five absolutely lost it when Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city is reviewing its contracts with Donald Trump…

Freedom – freedom of speech, freedom of religion – you know, those things only wingnuts have. Any level of hate and bigotry can be excused by invoking freedom.

We have seen conservative countless boycotts against various companies – Target and Angie’s List have been recent targets – against movies and television shows, based on various objections, and one wingnut cabal even wanted to boycott Labor Day.

Yet if someone other than wingnuts call for a boycott, it is “economic terrorism,” says Fox News’ Eric Bolling.

The progressive-hating gang on Fox News’ The Five absolutely lost it when New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city is now reviewing its contracts with Donald Trump because of his “offensive and disgusting” comments about Mexican immigrants, that “When Mexico Sends Its People … They’re Bringing Drugs. They’re Bringing Crime. They’re Rapists.”

De Blasio’s actions – not Trump’s – left The Five co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle asking, “should government really be in the business of bullying over political correctness?”

Greg Gutfeld continued his over-the-top portrayal of a irascible truth-teller, saying de Blasio “is such an ass, he’s 45 percent crack,” and called the mayor a “barnacle of capitalism” who can only exist thanks to heroic figures like Donald Trump.

That’ when Bolling chimed in, complaining that, “MoveOn.org is petitioning to boycott Donald Trump’s products. They are economic terrorists.”

Freedom is not uni-directional. If Trump has freedom of speech, so too do the recipients of that speech. If Trump says bigoted things, people have a right to respond by calling him out for it, or by refusing to buy his products, or by watching his shows.

If it is bad business to continue a professional relationship with him, other companies have a right to refuse to do business with him – like Univision, or NBC, or Macy’s, which ended their relationship with Trump on Wednesday – because it will hurt their bottom line.

These other corporations are, after all, in the business of making profits. And Republicans – and Fox News in particular – always defend corporations.

That is, unless corporations do something they don’t like, as when they championed LGBT rights over Indiana’s business-killing RFRA.

It asked if boycotts are economic terrorism, then what is refusing to serve gays? That is a case of a store owner boycotting the customer, rather than the customer boycotting the store. Isn’t that then also a form of economic terrorism?

Guilfoyle asked, “Should government really be in the business of bullying over political correctness?” but that question can be expanded too, to ask if government should be in the business of bullying over gender or sexual preferences? Fox News is fine if the latter is the case.

In many ways, The Five is a worthy successor to Glenn Beck, whose replacement it was when it first aired. It is certainly designed to attract the same niche, that is, viewers who don’t care about facts, who want bombast over content. Like Beck, it’s got Roger Ailes’ hands all over it.

The Five’s gang of crack-heads are just continuing what Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, and Bill O’Reilly have begun by leaping to The Donald’s defense. It is worth noting here that Bolling’s name belongs right up there.

This is the guy who said in 2011 that “I Don’t Remember Any Terrorist Attacks On American Soil” Between 2000 And 2008. This is the guy who said in February this year that there aren’t any examples of recent right wing terrorism in this country, despite the fact that wingnut terrorist attacks are pretty much the only kind of terrorist attack we get in this country.

Just a couple of weeks ago (June 17) Bolling got caught out by Dana Perino, who used to lie professionally for the shrub junta but has apparently found she still has an ethic or two, and the triggering topic was Bolling’s bromance with Trump:

PERINO: And covering up for him is actually wrong. And I understand that you have a deal that you’re trying to work on with him. I saw the Twitter last night. I just don’t see how that’s any different than how another journalist is actually pandering when you said you’ve been trying to close the deal for years for you to be on Celebrity Apprentice.

BOLLING: Oh, my dog. You actually think that I — I’ve been friendly with Donald Trump for 15 years.

PERINO: You’re the one that was shouting it from the rooftop yesterday.

BOLLING: Are you actually saying you’re going to accuse me of saying that Donald Trump has some good ideas that are resonating with America because I want to be on Celebrity Apprentice? Please tell me that’s not the case.

PERINO: I am saying it.

She said it. But that should be the beginning of the dialogue, not its end.

Oklahoma Supreme Court Shocker

Earthquake Lawsuit Against Oil Industry Can Proceed

It was encouraging, then, that in a Republican-misled state wholly owned by the oil industry, a High Court issued a procedural ruling that has the potential to…

For far too long the oil industry has wreaked havoc on the population and the environment with little, to no, pushback or regulation to protect Americans. In fact, it is a sad fact of American life that regardless the damage to the health and safety of Americans, Republicans in Congress and conservatives on the Supreme Court care more about the energy industry’s bottom line than they do Americans’ health, the environment, or the nation’s economic health. It was encouraging, then, that in a Republican-controlled state virtually owned by the oil industry, a High Court issued a procedural ruling that has the potential to hold the oil industry liable for injuring Oklahoma residents and damaging their property; but it was only a procedural ruling and no real threat to the Koch brothers’ industry.

In November of 2011, a woman watching television was injured during a (at one time rare) 5.0 magnitude earthquake as a result of the oil industry practice of pumping massive amounts of saltwater waste into the ground. The 5.0 earthquake, nearly unheard of in Oklahoma, was easily one of the largest on record and part of an alarming increase in earthquakes as a result of the industry’s oil extraction process known as fracking and wastewater injection. Sandra Ladra was injured when a two-story fireplace collapsed and crushed her legs.

In October a Lincoln County District judge, Cynthia Ferrell Ashwood, dismissed Ladra’s lawsuit against oil companies responsible for the earthquake, and came up with a bizarre notion that the court did not have jurisdiction over a wrongful injury lawsuit. Ashwood argued that the agency tasked with approving the earthquake-causing drilling (wastewater disposal) operation, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, was the proper agency to handle a lawsuit against the oil industry. The Oklahoma Supreme Court rightly disagreed and said the proper venue for a lawsuit, and determination of guilt, innocence, or damages, was in a court of law with a jury trial. It has been the case forever that lawsuits are the purview of the judicial system in America, but for some mysterious reason the Oklahoma lower court judge believed that a corporate commission issuing approval for oil corporations’ earthquake-causing operations was best equipped to decide that the oil corporations were not responsible for the woman’s earthquake-caused injury.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s “procedural” ruling will certainly expose the Oklahoma oil industry to many more lawsuits, and jury trials, over damages from the unheard of increase in earthquakes geological scientists say are the direct result of large-scale wastewater injection wells from oil drilling operations. In fact, one Oklahoma state agency said it is “very likely” that the frequent quakes of magnitude 3 or higher are triggered by such operations. It is also very likely that those agencies, like the federal U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), are not yet owned, or under the substantial influence, of the Koch Congress or the powerful oil industry.

Over the past five years, a normally seismic-quiet state like Oklahoma has suffered a dramatic increase in unheard of earthquakes that geologists and researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey have blamed on the oil and gas industry practice of injecting massive volumes of saltwater left over from oil and gas drilling back deep into the Earth. Prior to 2009, Oklahoma experience just one or two 3.0 magnitude earthquakes each year. In 2014 alone, Oklahoma saw 600 magnitude 3.0 earthquakes that coincided with the doubling of Oklahoma oil production because the oil industry was given permission to “cheaply” inject vast amounts of saltwater found in oil and gas formations back underground and cause the state to experience unprecedented, and dangerous, earthquake activity. It was just one of those earthquakes that caused Sandra Ladra’s chimney to collapse and crush her legs which is why she is seeking medical damages in a long overdue lawsuit.

There are already other lawsuits pending against the energy industry in Oklahoma and hopefully they will face substantial public pressure, not just monetary damages, to stop the practice. The oil industry’s lawyers, and indeed the industry itself, are very angry that the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s move will bring additional lawsuits they claim will weaken the industry. What they really mean is that the industry’s profits will suffer from being held responsible for causing earthquakes that injure Oklahoma residents and destroy their property. Whereas the oil industry is worried about its profits from impending lawsuits, supporters of stiffer regulations protecting Oklahomans from a predatory energy industry are hopeful the “threat of energy companies being liable for earthquake damages may result in safer industry practices.”

The stark reality is that there is nothing, not even lawsuits and awards for damages, that will result in even one regulation of the oil industry to protect the people or the environment; even being hopeful that is the case is a fantasy that will never come to pass. America is, after all, a nation owned and operated by the energy industry and with the Koch brothers now firmly in control of both houses of Congress, and the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, it is certain that any regulatory activity affecting the energy industry will be when Republicans abolish the EPA and USGS. In Oklahoma’s case, residents should expect an oil industry-written regulation calling for the impeachment of the state’s Supreme Court justices who dared to allow a lawsuit against oil corporations to go forward.

One would like to give props and kudos to the Oklahoma Supreme Court for “allowing” Ms. Ladra to seek damages from the oil industry responsible for the earthquakes in a court of law with a jury trial. However, the justices on the state’s High Court are not to be praised too quickly because their ruling was not against the oil industry per se, but a reversal of a lower court’s decision that the corporate agency (Oklahoma Corporate Commission) granting the industry permission to create earthquakes is not the proper venue to hear a lawsuit against the oil industry it supports.

Instead, the lawsuit will be heard where it belongs; in a court of law likely presided over by the judge who dismissed the injured Oklahoma woman’s lawsuit in the first place. In a red state governed by oil industry supporters, it is likely the jury will find the oil industry innocent and fine the injured woman for having the audacity to expect restitution for an unnecessary oil industry-caused injury. It is just the way America operates and it will only get worse now that the Kochs own Congress and the wingnuts on the Supreme Court.

Fucking Idiots

Chicago Brewery Names Beer After Donald Trump – It Translates To ‘Fuck Your Hair’

This might be worth a trip to Chicago.

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Scott Walker Finds A Horse's Head In His Bed

Scott Walker Finds A Horse's Head In His Bed

Better watch out, Scott. They expect results.

Koch-Backed Cabal Calls For No More National Parks

Just in time for the Fourth of July.

Asshole who plotted muslim massacre released because judge isn’t sure he’s a ‘true threat’

This judge is Brain Dead and should be removed from the bench!

Asshole who plotted muslim massacre released because judge isn’t sure he’s a ‘true threat’

A federal judge scuttled a plea agreement reached between prosecutors and attorneys for a former congressional candidate who plotted to massacre muslims in a community identified by wingnut media as a terrorist training camp.

Undeterred, Boehner Presses Forward With ACA Lawsuit Against Administration

Boehner Is An Idiot

Republicans are leaving no stone unturned in their quest to deny millions of Americans health care.

Worse than herpes ...

Indiana sex offenders use Republican’s ‘religious freedom’ law in fight to attend cult on school property

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit this week on behalf of two sex offenders who had been denied the right to attended Fort Wayne cult and Elkhart cult because the churches were located on school property.

Oops, didn't see that one coming, now did you

Texas Revolts Against Marriage Equality By Throwing Mass Temper Tantrum

Wingnuts warned us for years that homosexuals winning the right to get married would destroy the institution of marriage.
What they forgot to mention it would be them doing the destroying ...

Another Texas Temper Tantrum

Harlem nutcase vows to back the South in new Civil War to ‘rescue’ US from ‘sodomy agenda’

Harlem nutcase (ahem, preacher) vows to back the South in new Civil War to ‘rescue’ US from ‘sodomy agenda’

The catholic cult Defrauding Norway

The catholic cult is defrauding Norway

A catholic coven vomits a hate-filled ‘It Gets Better’ video — for homophobes

A catholic coven vomits a hate-filled ‘It Gets Better’ video — for homophobes

A “patriotic” catholic coven spewed a video mimicking the It Gets Better LGBT campaign to egg on religio-wingnuts denying the legalization of marriage equality.

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Suck It, Jumpers

White House Fence Goes Medieval With Iron Spikes

The fence surrounding the White House is having 7-inch spikes added to the top. They are a temporary deterrent against nutjobs jumping over.

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Sanders’ Carpe Diem: Missive Asks Americans ‘Why Not?’ Seize Reins, Correct Country’s Course

The course the U.S. takes from here is entirely in our own hands.
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In Madison, Bernie Sanders Draws Largest Crowd Of 2015

By attracting massive crowds, Sanders can build a movement around him and present the impression of momentum as he campaigns for wins in Iowa, New Hampshire, and beyond.

The Bernie Sanders Revolution Grows As 250,000 People Donate $15 Million To His Campaign

The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign announced that Sen. Sanders has raised $15 million from 250,000 Americans since April 30. The Sanders message is spreading, and supporters are opening up their wallets to take their country back.

In a statement, the campaign said:

Altogether, Sanders’ campaign brought in some $15 million since April 30, when he launched his bid for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Ninety-nine percent of the almost 400,000 contributions by some 250,000 individuals were for $250 or less.

The average donation was $33.51.

Counting all sources of campaign revenue – including the sale of T-shirts, bumper stickers and other merchandise – nearly 87 percent of the total amount raised during the quarter came from the donors who contributed $250 or less

At his speech in Madison, WI, Sanders said, “I am more than aware that my opponents will be able to outspend us. But we are going to win this election. They may have the money but we have the people. And when the people stand together, we can win.”
Hillary Clinton has raised three times more money from individual donors, but Sen. Sanders is drawing record-setting crowds and surging in the polls. The Sanders momentum has gone from something that supporters discussed on the Internet to a legitimate buzz in the political world. Recent polling revealed that Democrats give Hillary Clinton high marks on honesty, leadership, and trustworthiness, but Bernie Sanders has captured their imaginations with a message of revolution.

Sen. Sanders is leading a grassroots movement of the people whose goal is bigger than a presidential election. Bernie Sanders is out to defeat the billionaires and return the American government back to ordinary Americans. The message is revolution, and the Sanders revolutionaries are opening their wallets to fund their candidate.

Obama’s Winning Streak Continues

Economy Adds 12.8 Million Jobs Over 64 Straight Months

President Obama's economy has added 12.8 million private sector jobs over 64 straight months of job growth, extending the longest streak on record. …

And they called him a lame duck. President Obama’s economy has added 12.8 million private sector jobs over 64 straight months of job growth, extending the longest streak on record.

Thursday’s job announcement numbers put another feather in the cap of the President’s legacy, as he has now presided over 64 straight months of private sector job growth. Yes, that’s right. The Department of Labor announced that the economy added 223,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3 percent:

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 223,000 in June, and the unemployment rate declined to 5.3 percent, the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, financial activities, and in transportation and warehousing.

Insert right wing screams here as business leaders are telling Republicans that they don’t know what they are doing, after they failed to renew the Export-Import Bank’s charter.

From the administration’s Council of Economic Advisers:

The private sector has added 12.8 million jobs over 64 straight months of job growth, extending the longest streak on record. Today we learned that total nonfarm employment rose by 223,000 in June—and all those jobs came from the private sector. Although total job growth was revised down somewhat in April and May, much of the revision is attributable to lower government employment than previously estimated. On the whole, our economy has added 2.9 million new jobs over the past twelve months, near the fifteen-year high achieved in February.

Of course, as President Obama keeps saying, all is not well. Not only have we had major cuts in the public sector, thanks in large part to Republican cuts and their sequester, but Americans need more good paying jobs. Additionally, the labor force grew more slowly in June than it usually does. “Over the past sixty years, the labor force has grown by 1.8 percent in June on average before seasonal adjustment—more than three times faster than May, the next fastest month. But this June, the labor force only rose 0.4 percent.”

Betsey Stevenson, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement “Our economy has now added 5.6 million jobs over the past two years, the strongest two-year job growth since 2000.” But she cautioned, “But despite this progress, there is more work to do. We must continue to build on the positive trends underlying our economy by ensuring that Americans working overtime receive a fair day’s pay, opening new markets for U.S. goods and services through expanded trade, increasing investments in infrastructure, providing relief from the sequester, and raising the minimum wage.”

(Note the administration keeps pushing that trade deal among their other pushes of raising the minimum wage and paying fair overtime wages.)

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi couldn’t help but contrast the longest stretch of private sector job growth with the Republican shutdown of the Export-Import Bank’s charter, “June’s job’s report shows our economy continuing to move in the right direction, extending the longest uninterrupted stretch of private sector job creation in our history. Yet again and again, the shutdowns and manufactured crises of the Republican Congress have put this progress at risk, costing our country jobs, weakening our economy, and undermining hard-working families.”

And noting that construction jobs are low for this month, it’s a good time to bring up the Republican failure to do anything with infrastructure like the long-term Highway and Transit Trust Fund bill.

“Earlier this week, Republicans forced the expiration of the Export-Import Bank’s charter, endangering thousands of export-reliant jobs and small businesses across America. House Republicans still have no plan for the long-term Highway and Transit Trust Fund bill needed to avert the crisis they punted to the end of this month — inaction that threatens hundreds of thousands of good paying construction jobs and critical infrastructure projects.”

Pelosi nailed the prevailing mood of the country in her last paragraph, saying in part, “Hard-working families deserve better than a Congress that shows so little interest in their jobs, their wages and their communities.”

Republicans and pundits have been clinging to the fact that employment numbers are adjusted over time and that is true. For example, the Department of Labor notes, “With these revisions, employment gains in April and May combined were 60,000 lower than previously reported. Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 221,000 per month.”

But 221,000 job gains per month is the Republican idea of bad news? We’ll take it. Also, before Republicans get too smug, let us not forget why those numbers were revised down — lower government employment than previously estimated. That would be the Republican contribution to the jobs numbers. They lowered them. Maybe we should be talking about that.

There is a 64 month streak of gaining private sector jobs and that hasn’t changed even after the numbers are revised. I think it’s safe to stop trolling the facts and start asking Congress why they haven’t done a thing to help Americans get better paying jobs.

President Obama is on a streak of legacy making wins, from the Supreme Court’s ruling that Obamacare is Constitutional to opening an embassy in Cuba to the new job numbers, it’s been a good few weeks for the President’s record.

The New Overtime Rules Explained In Less Than 2 Minutes

The Obama administration has announced new regulations that would dramatically expand the number of salaried workers eligible for overtime pay.

Fox Business hack: Paying overtime is just more ‘giveaways’ to the ‘permanent minimum wage club’

Fox Business hack: Paying overtime is just more ‘giveaways’ to the ‘permanent minimum wage club’ 

Still further proof the idiots at Fox News have no clue about anything

Trump: He Is ‘Exposing A Lot Of The Dirty Truths Of The Republican Cabal’

Latino Leader On Donald Trump: He Is ‘Exposing A Lot Of The Dirty Truths Of The Republican Cabal’

Yet Another Business Dumps ‘The Donald’ Due To Racist Remarks And It’s Another Big Name

And, another one bites the dust. . .
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Texas' wingnut attorney general Ken Paxton faces felony indictment

Texas' wingnut attorney general Ken Paxton faces felony indictment

A first-degree felony conviction in Texas can result in 5 to 99 years in prison.

Glenn Beck Pretty Sure Non-Existent Navy Yard Shooter Was Probably A Muslim

More the from land of utter delusion ...

Early last Thursday morning, it was reported that a shooter was on the loose at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., but those reports eventually turned out to be false after D.C. police responded and found "no signs of a shooter, no shooting and no injured." Predictably, Glenn Beck opened his radio... MORE

Chicken Express Offers Free Meal With Handgun License, Wingnuts Orgasm

Why are wingnuts making fast-food chicken restaurants their new political battleground?

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Senators Push For Hearings On Homegrown Terrorists Like The Charleston Shooter

Senators Push For Hearings On Homegrown Terrorists Like The Charleston Shooter

‘Murica Not Muhammad

Wingnuts Are Outraged That Their Killers Are Called Terrorists

Rather than address the problem they created, the wingnuts instead try to deflect attention, reassign blame and distance themselves from those who clearly kill in the name of ‘Murica, not Muhammad.

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Beyond “Blackface”

Why George Takei Was Right About Clarence Thomas

Wingnuts are outraged that George Takei got so mad after Justice Clarence Thomas said slaves had "dignity" that he likened the sitting justice to being a clown in blackface…

Wingnuts are all about “freedom of speech”, that is, until a dissenter tries to use it and then it’s all moral outrage wrapped in a flag.

This brings us to George Takei and the moment when he got so mad after Justice Clarence Thomas said slaves had “dignity” that he likened the sitting justice to being a clown in blackface.

“He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry.”

“We are overjoyed, we are proud, and we feel fully American,” George Takei said at the start of the interview, referring to the Supreme Court’s ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationally. Takei was joined in the interview by his husband Brad.

And then, after explaining his decision to be more politically active, Takei said, “He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry… He doesn’t belong there. For him to say slaves had dignity. I mean, doesn’t he know slaves were chained? That they were whipped on the back? If he saw the movie 12 Years as a Slave, they were raped, and he says they had dignity as slaves?”

Takei was referring to what Justice Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion after the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality last week:

That vision is the foundation upon which this Nation was built. The corollary of that principle is that human dignity cannot be taken away by the government. Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.

Well. There you go. It’s dignified to be killed after being kidnapped from your home country, torn away from your family and loved ones, put to work as a slave, raped, whipped in public, unable to own property — this is just as dignified as say, internment camps, which are also apparently okay, and this is why it’s okay for Justice Thomas to stand against liberty for all. You see? It was okay in internment camps and for slaves, so it’s okay for gays. I mean, this totally works as an argument. This is totally sane.

Except that George Takei was in a Japanese-American internment camp as a young boy and thus his notion of the government not being able to take away dignity is tarnished by reality.

“My parents lost everything that they worked for in the middle of their lives in their thirties. My father’s business, our home, our freedom. And we’re supposed to call that dignified?” Takei asked.

“This man does not belong on the Supreme Court. He is an embarrassment. He is a disgrace to America. I’ll say it on camera,” Takei declared, speaking for most of America.

Naturally, wingnuts would rather focus on this phrase than on the truth behind it, as they are outraged that a liberal is allowed to say things a wingnut can’t. Not sure where they’ve been, but they’ve been calling the first black President a muslim Nazi terrorist without a birth certificate for seven years, and much of that came from actual elected lawmakers and a Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican side. It’s also not exactly the same to whine that Rush Limbaugh, a white straight rich man, is the same as a person who lived in an internment camp and couldn’t get married legally and have it recognized around the country until last week.

At any rate, conservatives are angry that George Takei has free speech just like they do, and he used it to call out Thomas for his obscene whitewashing of history.

Blackface per Wiki: Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used by performers to represent a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the “happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation” or the “dandified coon”.

Thomas’ dissent contributed to the stereotype perpetuated by the right of “happy slaves”. It whitewashed history.

The truth is that it is outrageous for a sitting justice to say that slaves had dignity. Justice Thomas saying that only furthers the distortions of reality we have allowed in order to shield ourselves from the ugly truth of what we have done as a nation. These kinds of beliefs do not belong in the highest court of the land. That kind of attitude is why so many people in America are not enjoying the full rights to which they are entitled as human beings in one of the richest countries on the Earth.

Montana Man Inspired By SCOTUS Ruling Applies To Marry 2nd Wife

A Montana man said Wednesday that he was inspired by the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage to apply for a marriage license so that he can legally wed his second wife.

Man Applies To Marry 2nd Wife

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Oh, and FYI - wingnuts, he is one of your own ... a mormon.
Well, so much for the Liberal 'agenda' and the apocalypse coming about due to marriage equality.
The first 'challenge' to that equality out of the gate is not from Liberals but from a wingnut ... now who could have seen that one coming?
(Liberals you can keep your hand down that was a rhetorical question for you)

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Pardon us we should point out he is the first man to seek to marry more than one woman due to the SCOTUS ruling - the first 'proposal for 'different' marriage status was the a wingnut female in Idaho who wants to marry her dog because if 'gays' can marry she can marry her dog ... there has been no word from the dog on the matter.

A 3rd Federal Court Strikes Down Louisiana’s Gay Marriage Ban

Louisiana's idiot Bobby Jindal (R) said he would wait for a third and final federal court ruling declaring bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional before recognizing gay marriages in the state, and last Thursday morning a district judge gave him just that.

3rd Federal Court Strikes Down Louisiana’s Gay Marriage Ban

It’s Perfectly Legal For This Tennessee Hardware Store To Refuse Gay Customers

In Tennessee, there's nothing illegal about refusing to sell screwdrivers to gay people.

There is also nothing illegal about not patronizing his hardware store either.
If you choose not to give him any business and he refuses business - so be it, you can spend your money elsewhere and he can be deprived of increased revenue.
Now should you choose the give him THE business ( i.e., the  middle digit of your hand in an upraised position, etc.) for his asinine 'views', well, he deserves them and can do nothing about it either.

Wingnut ‘christian’ whore John Hagee Has Meltdown Over Marriage Equality Ruling

Religious welfare queen John Hagee has finally commented on the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling and, of course, it’s a meltdown of biblical proportions.

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