All Hat No Cattle: Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Alabama school superintendent bans high school history club from seeing ‘Selma’
A school trip to the see the historical civil rights drama ‘Selma‘ by a high school history club has been cancelled by the school superintendent over concerns over language, reports WAFF.

The current Republican Whip of the House voted against making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday. It is 2015.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

American Sniper is one of the best films ever made about patriotically shooting people in a country that never attacked us. - John Fugelsang

Man Arrested For Video Taping Barbaric Saudi Arabian Beheading
In a recent video from Saudi Arabia, three uniformed security officers and a professional swordsman in a white gown struggled to placate a woman cloaked in black and sitting in the street. A Saudi court had convicted her of murder, but she was proclaiming her innocence.

Then the officers stepped back, the swordsman took aim and the woman shrieked and fell silent as he struck her neck with his blade, three times in total. Medics wearing white gloves tended to the body, and the swordsman wiped his blade with a cloth.

Republican Shenanigans

As a politician, Paul Ryan won't listen to 99% of scientists on climate change. As a Catholic he won't listen to the Pope, who's infallible.- The Daily Edge Tweet

I'm not buying your "so-called" climate science until it's verified by someone who has returned from heaven.- LOLGOP

51% Of Public School Children Are Poor
2015 - Low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools, according to this research bulletin. The latest data collected from the states by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), show that 51 percent of the students across the nation’s public schools were low income in 2013.

Happy MLK Day, when sane people celebrate a great man, and angry people celebrate Jackson-Lee Day to praise men who kept people as pets.

GOOD NEWS: The GOP presidential field is a mess. - LOLGOP

YeeHaw. Tea Partier Claims He Owns Martin Luther King Jr
During his speech at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition convention yesterday, conservative entertainer and YouTube celebrity “Wild Bill” Finley claimed ownership of slain Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream that people remember how ‪#‎MLK‬ was anti-war & fought for labor rights as much as for civil rights.- John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

President Obama At 50% Approval
President Barack Obama's approval rating has risen to 50 percent in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday, his strongest showing in the survey since the spring of 2013.

Forty-four percent disapprove of how he's handling his job as president.

To be fair, Republicans voted against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday before the technology existed for them to Google him.- LOLGOP

REMINDER: If Martin Luther King Jr. had lived, he'd be 86 today and conservatives wouldn't be quoting that one speech.- LOLGOP

Richest 1% Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth and all Republicans by 2016, Study Finds. - LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

Republicans could completely eliminate income inequality by disbanding and opening a cupcake shop.- LOLGOP

Oily Dealings
J.P. Morgan is the latest among Wall Street banks to downgrade oil & gas companies in Asia.

The bank now sees that Brent crude can fall below $40 per barrel in the near-term, “should the oil market not be able to accommodate a 1.6mb/d surplus,” that Brent crude will average at only $49 per barrel this year and $56.8 next, and that the recovery will be a slow U-shape.