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
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 ...
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