U.S. Customs agents seized up to 300 small
clay tablets shipped from Israel in 2011 to the 'christian' business
owners’ headquarters in Oklahoma City.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Hell Experiences Cold Day As Teabagger Endorses Obama’s Climate Change Plan
A member of the cabal of ‘No’ is saying yes to President Obama’s
Clean Energy Plan, making Hell cold as the rest of the world deals with
rising temperatures.President Obama Blasts Fox News For Lying About His Position On Guns
The President said:
So, look, I understand we won’t all agree on this issue. But it’s time to be honest — fewer gun safety laws don’t mean more freedom, they mean more danger. Certainly more danger to police, more fallen officers, more grieving families, more Americans terrified that they or their loved ones could be next. So I’m going to keep calling on the folks in Congress to change the way that they think about gun safety. And if they don’t, I’m going to keep on calling on Americans to change the folks in Congress until they get it right
So supporting law enforcement and having a budget that backs it up, not just — because talk is cheap, but actually following through to make sure you’ve got the resources you need. Reforming our criminal justice system so it is smarter and we can reduce crime while still reducing the incarceration rate. Restoring trust between communities. Refusing to give up on gun safety. We can take those steps. That’s within our reach.
When Obama referred to certain television stations, he was talking about Fox News.
Obama is right. The gun industry’s favorite propaganda tool is to warn that the President is coming for their guns, but when pressed they can’t name a single gun that Obama has confiscated.
The myth that Democrats are out to take away guns has been around for decades. Fox News has spread this lie all through the Obama presidency. It is great to see Obama pushing back, and highlighting the hypocrisy of Republicans who claim to be pro-law enforcement, but oppose common sense steps that could make it safer for cops to do their jobs.
The issue is about gun safety, not gun confiscation, and the President realizes to gain support to change the law, he must first debunk the Fox News lies.
Strong In Victory, Obama Warns Republicans Not To Play Games With Budget Deal
The President spoke about the budget agreement while addressing the 122nd Annual IACP Conference and Exposition in Chicago.
President Obama said:
I am pretty happy about that because it reflects our values, growing the economy and the middle-class by investing in things like education and job training that are needed and it keeps us safe by investing in our national security. It’s paid for responsibly in part with a measure to make sure hedge funds and private equity firms pay what they owe in taxes. It’s the right thing to do.
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Republicans who oppose the deal will no doubt try to attach attacks on Planned Parenthood to the spending bills, but they have been warned. The country may have a budget deal, but if Republicans start playing games this president will veto their spending bills.
The President was cutting Republicans off at the pass. He isn’t about to let the dysfunction in the House sink a two-year deal that will finally end the chaos of crisis governing. The majority of Republicans in Congress hate the deal, but they have few options.
President Obama is at the height of his presidential powers, and there is little that the extremist elements in the Republican Congressional majority can do in the face of his latest overwhelming victory.
Liberal Support For The Budget Deal Signals A Big Democratic Victory
Republican members of Congress were outraged as soon as the deal was announced, but the reaction on the Democratic side has been much more supportive.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, and serves as co-Chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said, “My biggest concern was how it was going to treat Social Security disability, and the questions I got answered so far have allayed some of my concerns. So I’m going to keep studying it, but at this point I don’t have any fire alarms going off.”
House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) said that Democrats avoided the worst case scenario on the disability program, “We avoided the worst proposal on disability to eliminate the availability of UI to those who are on disability” Levin pointed out that the changes to the disability program that Republicans are trying to sell as reform are nothing more than the closing of a loophole.
Republicans appear to have only gotten some symbolic face-saving gestures out of the deal. There is nothing in the major points of the agreement that is at the top of the Congressional Republican wishlist.
The agreement is going to pass Congress with a coalition of Democratic voters and votes from the Republican leadership. The Republican extremists in the House and Senate who specialize in making sure that government doesn’t work have been comprehensively defeated by an agreement that is good for the country.
No matter what perspective this agreement is viewed from, it is clear that Democrats have won big.
Boehner Makes A Budget Deal With Obama, Screws The 'Freedom Caucus' On His Way Out
'Freedom Caucus' Nut Loses His Mind Over Budget Deal, Takes Ryan Hostage
Of course, that assumes he had one to begin with.
Ryan Caves In To The 'Freedom Caucus' Before He’s Even Sworn In
Ryan has decided that being second in line to the most powerful seat in the world is worth his soul.
Wingnut Morons: FOX’s Hannity Cites Hoax Website, Trump Cites Hannity
Where did Trump get his outlandish “facts” about Syrian
refugees? From Hannity, who got them from a hoax internet site. Carson Leads In National Poll, Trump Decides Polls Are ‘Not Very Scientific’
Trump changes his tune now that he’s losing.
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Busted ... Again
Republicans oppose immigration reform because “it changes the voter pool”
Yet another case of a Republican Congressman being too honest for their own good.
The ‘war on women’ is not a war — it’s an assault
Fox News Ratings Plunge As Rachel Maddow’s Viewership Grows By 31%
According to MSNBC, “The Rachel Maddow Show tops CNN for regularly scheduled shows in total viewers (953,000 vs. 547,000) and the A25-54 demo (171,000 vs. 159,000) for the month of October 2015….MSNBC continues to gain momentum in the ratings over last year. MSNBC is up in the key A25-54 demo over October 2014 including “Morning Joe” (+16%), “Hardball with Chris Matthews” (+8%), “All In with Chris Hayes” (+28%), “The Rachel Maddow Show” (+31%), and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” (25%). For M-F Prime 8-11pm, MSNBC is up (+29%) in the A25-54 demo over last year.”
As MSNBC is growing, and CNN’s audience is up an amazing 101%, Fox News has seen a ratings decline, “But unlike CNN and MSNBC, Fox News was down in the A25-54 demo vs. Oct. 2014: down -11 percent in total day and down -1 percent in prime time. Among total viewers, the network saw growth: up +3 percent in both total day and in primetime.”
MSNBC is up by double digits. CNN is up by triple digits, and Fox News has flatlined. Much of CNN’s growth came from the record-setting Democratic debate, but MSNBC is the only cable network not to have aired a debate yet, and they are growing over eight times faster than Fox.
As much as NBC News brass appear to want Joe Scarborough to be the face of MSNBC, Rachel Maddow is the franchise. She is the star that primetime is built around. Maddow has scored recent interviews with Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley.
While Fox is sliding, Maddow has one of the fastest growing programs on cable news. After spending years being bogged down by poor MSNBC management, the audience for The Rachel Maddow Show is growing again.
Hacktivist Group Anonymous Promises To De-Hood 1,000 KKK Members
Justice Kennedy: Kim Davis should resign
“[As] a public official in performing your legal duties, you are bound to enforce the law.”
Judge who let confessed child rapist go after he ran out the clock could face impeachment
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Bernie Sanders Brings Liberalism To The Mainstream And Drops A Truth Bomb On The View
While on The View, Senator Sanders (I-VT) exposed the real face of the Republican cabal.
Sanders said, “I’m not happy to say this. We have a very lunatic fringe wingnut extremist Republican cabal. This is not the cabal of Dwight David Eisenhower.”
Sanders continued, “Too many of them are. Too many of them really are now. You just heard Carson’s statement.”
Behar weighed in, “He’s on the fringe I think.”
Sanders said, “I’m afraid not. Really. Joy, I wish I could tell you that….You haven’t been around Congress too long. These are guys who basically believe. This is their agenda more or less. Huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, huge cuts to education. Virtually all of them are against a woman’s right to choose. Very few of them support gay rights. The right of gay people to marry. That is their agenda.”
Joy Behar is a very liberal person, but her questions represented some commonly held misperceptions about the current state of the Republican cabal that are likely to exist among many audience members of a show like The View.
People who don’t pay close attention to politics are likely to hold a view of the Republican cabal that is outdated and inaccurate. This is not the Republican cabal of Eisenhower. Today’s Republican cabal is not even the cabal of Reagan.
One of the real upsides of the Bernie Sanders campaign is that the Senator from Vermont has taken the liberal message national. Whether or not Senator Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, he has brought mainstream media attention to the liberal message.
Senator Sanders is exposing the Republican cabal for what it is, and he is opening the eyes of millions of Americans to what the Republican cabal has become.
It is easy for people who closely follow politics to treat what Sanders said on The View as common sense, but to the vast majority of the country what Sen. Sanders is saying is a revelation.
Obama And Democrats Close To Huge Victory As Republicans Cave On Budget and Debt Ceiling
Politico reported:
House Republicans will meet in closed session Monday night, as congressional negotiators and the White House near a two-year budget deal that would boost defense and domestic spending by tens of billions of dollars, and lift the debt ceiling until March 2017.
The ambitious accord, which is being negotiated by top House, Senate and White House officials, would boost defense and non-defense spending by $50 billion next year, and $30 billion the year after, split evenly between defense and non-defense programs. Negotiations are fluid, however, and details might change before legislation is filed. House Republicans are expected to discuss the proposal at their evening meeting.
The deal would give President Obama and Congressional Democrats everything that they wanted. The sequester cuts would be removed. Spending would increase. The debt ceiling would be raised for two years, and there would be no government shutdowns for the next two years.
Boehner and McConnell want this deal because they can’t trust their own cabal not to screw up and cost the Republican cabal any chances that they might have of winning in 2016. By taking the debt limit crisis and government shutdown threats off of the table, the Republican leaders hope to clear the decks for both likely new Speaker of the House Ryan, and the party’s 2016 pretender nominee.
If this agreement becomes a reality, it will represent a major victory both for President Obama and Congressional Democrats.
For years, Republicans have been living in a fantasy world where they believed that if they created a big enough crisis, President Obama would cave. However, when Obama vetoed the NDAA last week, he forced Republicans to blink.
A two-year budget agreement that raises the debt ceiling would end the crisis politics in DC, and give President Obama one of the biggest wins of his presidency. The deal isn’t done yet, but when it happens it will be the ultimate Republican cave.
‘Nonsense-spewing’ Sarah Palin to blame for ‘carnival-like’Republican cabal
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Actually the cabal has been this stupid all along but was able to hide that fact well enough to fool other slightly less stupid people she just destroyed that ability so that everyone sees and knows them for what they are and always have been ...
Clueless Trump Speaks Truth About The Shrub, Iraq And The Rise Of ISIL
Even when he’s attacking Obama, Trump keeps doing incredible damage to the Republicans.
Trump Recalls Having A Hard Life After Dad Gave Him ‘A Small Loan Of $1 Million’
Trump pulls the sympathy card — and no one’s buying it.
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Corruption-Addled Walker Signs Bill Saying He Can’t Be Investigated For Corruption
Walker dismantles the anti-corruption law that led to some of his closet allies being thrown behind bars. 
FOX Caught Condoning A Racist Calling For the Death Of Cops, Yet They Still Condemn #BLM
Fox has tried its best to condemn Black Lives Matter for inciting
violence against cops. Yet, it was just caught condoning the behavior of
a racist cop killer. This makes Fox the biggest hypocrites on the face
of planet Earth. Everyone needs to see this. Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate suggested lesbians provoke men into shooting them by ‘fondling each other’
Kansans Despise Brownback’s Policies But They Voted For Him Anyway
Only 18 percent of Kansans are satisfied with Brownback, despite 'electing' him twice to be their governor. …
A statewide poll conducted by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at
Fort Hays State University finds that Kansans are extremely
dissatisfied with teabagger wingnut Brownback and many of his
policies. The “Kansas Speaks” survey, released on October 25th, reveals a
political paradox. Kansans dislike the Republican moron and his
policies, but when they had the chance to remove him from office, they
couldn’t muster the courage to do it.Only 18 percent of Kansans are satisfied with Brownback’s job performance in the deeply wingnut state, making him considerably less popular than Democratic President Barack Obama. 28 percent of Kansans are satisfied with Barack Obama’s job performance.
It would be easy to sympathize with the good folks of Kansas, because they are indeed suffering under one of the nation’s worst governors. Yet, they have only themselves to blame, because their wounds are largely self-inflicted.
After enduring Brownback’s disastrous first term, the masochistic Kansas electorate decided to vote themselves another round of pain, by reelecting him in 2014. Voters in Kansas are so programmed to vote for the person with the (R) by their name, that they seem almost incapable of doing anything else, even when their livelihoods are at stake.
Over a decade ago, Thomas Frank wrote his influential book, What’s the Matter with Kansas. The book argued that Kansans who voted Republican were foolishly voting against their own interests. Kansans were described as:
Sturdy patriots reciting the Pledge while they resolutely strangle their own life chances… small farmers proudly voting themselves off the land… devoted family men carefully seeing to it that their children will never be able to afford college or proper health care… hardened blue-collar workers in Midwestern burgs cheering as they deliver up a landslide for a candidate whose policies will end their way of life.Over a decade after Frank wrote his book, his description still rings true, as Kansans have twice elected Brownback, only to see him implement policies that work against most of the state’s residents.
The “Kansas Speaks” survey sends a message that Kansans are fed up with Brownback’s devastating policies. Unfortunately, those aggrieved voters failed to express their dissatisfaction at the polls in November 2014, when their collective power could have made a difference. One can only hope they have learned from their mistake, but chances are in the next election, those disgruntled voters will pull the lever for Republicans yet again. Its hard to rescue people from their misery, when they seem so determined to make sure it persists.
Drug smuggling, rape and torture
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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