My observation of the State Of The Union Address

President Obama's SOTU 'sick burn' lights up Twitter

There were 6,493 words in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in the copy published by the White House before the speech. But eight words, unscripted and delivered off the cuff by the president, were arguably the most memorable....

FOX NEWS: OBAMA UPSETS REPUBLICANS BY REMINDING THEM HE WAS ELECTED, TWICE. - LOLGOP

Boehner blows nose during union labor ovation.- John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Palestinian man stabs 9 on Israeli bus
• Russia has 9,000 troops on Ukrainian soil, Poroshenko tells Davos forum
• Russia hits back at Obama over State of Union speech
• France reinforces security, spy agencies after attacks
• Yemen leader expected to accept demands of Houthis who defeated his guards

My favorite part was when no Republicans stood up to applaud and Obama said, "I see every Republican who ever beat me is standing."- LOLGOP

Cop Shoots Surfer Dead. Not In The USA, But Brazil.
Brazilian surf star Ricardo dos Santos has died after reportedly being shot by an off-duty police officer.
Heartbroken tributes poured in from the 24-year-old's surfing peers.




Republicans considering congressional action to reverse Obama's zinger.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP Mentions Immigration In Spanish SOTU Response But Not In English One
• Jason Chaffetz: Taxing Inheritance Is 'One Of The Most Immoral Things You Can Do'
• Sorry, conservatives, having liberals laugh at you is not the same as being shot in the head
• For Joni Ernst, homespun Obama response was full of political calculation

Vive Le Liberte
The French fake news show "Le Petit Journal" on Friday sent a few of its correspondents dressed up as Fox News reporters to hit the streets of Paris, playing up fear of terrorism and Islam in fake "no-go zones."

I had to pay Joel Osteen $15,500 in tax-free cash to explain to me how I can still follow poor Jesus and love money! #RichPeopleProblems - Mrs. Betty Bowers

What Is Really Interesting, Is Who Is Not Showing Up In Iowa
The Republican race to the White House begins at Hoyt Sherman Place.
The venerable Des Moines venue will be the scene for Saturday's Iowa Freedom Summit, the U.S. Rep. Steve King-sponsored conservative confab already pegged by the campaign-industrial complex as the kickoff to Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses.

Mike Huckabee says 2016 will be all about American values. He said that while playing guitar with draft-dodging pedophile Ted Nugent. - The Daily Edge Tweet




Rock The Voter News

• Yes, Michelle Obama Was Wearing An Alicia Florrick Outfit At The State Of The Union
• Biden's Delaware Home Reportedly Had History Of Security Problems

FOX NEWS: OBAMA REFUSES TO LET MITT ROMNEY GIVE STATE OF THE UNION- LOLGOP

Biden Throws Pork Chop To The Wolves
Vice President Joe Biden says "I think I could do a good job" as president but says it's too soon to say if he'll try to succeed Barack Obama.

The RNC released its first presidential debate schedule, which includes at least nine debates in different states across the country. As opposed to the Democratic debates, which will just be Hillary staring at her opponents until they burst into flames.- Jimmy Fallon

Joni Ernst wore breadbags, people, and that's why billionaires need another tax cut.- John Fugelsang




Business/Tech News

• Oil inches above $48, outlook remains weak
• Venezuela shortages spark fears
• ECB Seeks to Inject Up to 1.1 Trillion Euros Into Economy in Deflation Fight
• Missile Warning Satellites to Be Early Subject of USAF Reform Initiative

I've heard that there are people so poor they don't have enough food for their chefs to prepare. #RichPeopleProblems  - Mrs. Betty Bowers




Renaissance CEO?
Aetna (AET) raised employees' wages to a base of $16 per hour because paying them less was not fair, Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini told CNBC on Wednesday.

An apple a day keeps anyone away if you throw it hard enough. -how about no tweet

Babe Ruth after he was knocked out when he ran into a wall trying to make a catch July,1924.

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Odd News

• NFL finds Patriots used underinflated footballs
• UK woman fakes her own death to avoid a bad date
• Woman charged with robbing store while toddler was in cab
• Activists arrested after dousing Lenin's tomb with holy water
• Woman Vows To Give Up Yoga Pants To 'Honor God And Husband'

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Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

Peace.

Oui Oui! Fox News Insulted Paris, France!

CNN analyst urges Fox to settle Paris lawsuit: Unlike US, French have ‘criminalized’ slander
Two CNN legal analyst said on Tuesday that the city of Paris could win a lawsuit against Fox News because French law was less tolerant of slander and defamation than United States law.



Good article and true. The UK has similar laws. In the good old USA your can fling as much crap as you want and hope some sticks. Paranoia is bred in the USA by this crap. The French have more class.




Joe Biden to nurse fake baby during State of the Union.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• French police arrest five Chechens suspected of preparing attack
• Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives in video
• Ukraine says its forces under attack from Russian troops
• U.N. presses for Libya ceasefire to hold

Just saying if George W. Bush were president right now, he'd enter the State of the Union riding a Segway wearing an "I cured Ebola" sash.- LOLGOP

Meanwhile, Back In Washington, D.C.
A Muslim prison inmate in Arkansas has won his battle to grow a beard for religious purposes over objections by prison officials. In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that...

Republican Shenanigans

• One presidential speech, many GOP responses
• Republicans befuddled by Obama plan to cut middle-class taxes
• Jon Stewart clashes with Mike Huckabee: ‘You don’t approve of Beyoncé because she seems alien to you’
• ‘Oh my God, a couscous!’: French comedy show keeps hammering Fox for its Paris paranoia

Obama is just trolling us, Republicans said as they posted a meme of the president burning the Constitution with a flaming puppy.- LOLGOP

The Greying Old Party
The Senate’s top tax law writer accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of undertaking “class warfare” with his plan to raise taxes on wealthier Americans to help the middle class.









Remember, don't be mad at the civilian governments that sent soldiers to die for lies, be mad at Michael Moore and Jane Fonda. - John Fugelsang




Rock The Voter News

• Why Obama’s State of the Union still matters in the Twitter era
• Unanimous Supreme Court affirms Muslim inmate's right to grow beard

The next president will be sworn in exactly 2 years from today so let's just save time and start hating each other all over again right now.- John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• US officials in Cuba to discuss embassies
• Pipeline expected to remain closed after oil spill in Montana
• Nebraska landowners sue Keystone XL developer
• Costa Rica submits to money laundering probe by Latin America task force

Republicans are so concerned about the poor that they want to relieve them of the burden of health insurance and food stamps.- LOLGOP

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Sometimes it's fun to remind Creationists that Jesus' basic message was 'Evolve.'- John Fugelsang

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NOTICE:
Busy, busy day today, mea culpa for the delay and the short but sweet edition!

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Odd News

• New Hampshire Lottery releases bacon-scented ticket
• Man cited in Georgia for eating cheeseburger while driving
• Brothers Steal $500,000 In Sewer Grates, Philly Police Say
• German Model Claims To Have Largest Fake Breasts
• British Man Convicted After Having Sex With A Mailbox

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A baby octopus on a finger with a blue fingernail. I find the strangest photographs.

Peace.

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

• Shots Fired Near Vice President's Delaware Home, Biden Wasn't There
• Ukrainian troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
• Exclusive: Syria begins destruction of chemical weapons facilities - sources
• Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck gushes over sniper: Killing 33 people in 4 months is ‘incredible’
• Doomsday ‘prepper’ dead after trailer park shooting rampage and fiery explosion
• The Appalling Lesson Some People Are Taking Away From ‘American Sniper’ (IMAGES)

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

• Organizers insist no racial motive for holding pro-Confederate rally on MLK weekend
• Fox News Apologizes For Guest's Claims About Muslim 'No-Go Zones'
• Graham Doubles Down: Yes, Obama's Policies Are 'Getting People Killed' 
• Wealthy Texas mom objects to ‘Working Poor’ book and wants teens to read Ayn Rand instead
• West Virginia Wanted to Teach Students Anti-Science Nonsense. Teachers Fought Back—and Won.
• Protesters surround conference put on by Texas Muslims: ‘You are not Americans’

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

• Poll: Americans Think Race Relations Are Worse Under Obama 
• 'Selma' stars including Oprah march in Alabama, honoring MLK

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

• Oil slips $1 on Chinese economy concerns, record Iraq output
• Germany repatriates more gold: Bundesbank
• Richest 1% Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016, Study Finds
• Fox News wants sick people sneezing in your food 

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.

I don’t have a drinking problem, I have a winter weather solution.- JokeBlogger.com




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Odd News

• Surprised Iran subway riders brush shoulders with president
• Israeli selfie from Miss Universe contest causes stir in Lebanon
• Large bird attacks Oregon jogger; owl is blamed for strikes
• Pigeon pill: Bird birth control planned for Ohio courthouse
• Man scooped up by California garbage truck survives ride

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The simple life.

Peace.