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Monday, January 12, 2015

France mobilizes 10,000 troops at home after Paris shootings

France mobilizes 10,000 troops at home after Paris shootings
France will deploy 10,000 soldiers on home soil by Tuesday and post almost 5,000 extra police officers to protect Jewish sites after the killing of 17 people by Islamist militants in Paris last week, officials said.

Republicans are almost as upset about Obama not being in Paris as they would be if Obama had dared to go to Paris.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

CENTCOM Hacked By ISIS
The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was apparently hacked Monday afternoon by supporters of the Islamic State.

About 12:30 p.m. ET, @CENTCOM began sending out pro-IS tweets and its banner and avatar were changed to read "i love you isis." By 1 p.m. ET, the tweets remained but the avatar and banner had been removed; by 1:12 p.m. ET, the account was suspended entirely.

FOX NEWS: ONE MILLION MARCH IN PARIS AGAINST OBAMACARE. - LOLGOP

The Terrorists Hate The USA Because Of Invading Iraq, Torturing People and Bunches Of Other Stuff
The United States senator who oversaw the publication of the graphic 'torture report' detailing the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program has indicated to the British parliament there would be little point in her travelling to London to give evidence before MPs.

Notice there's no "Draft Mitt Romney" movement, which is smart. Mitt always avoids a draft.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush will release a decade’s worth of tax returns to avoid comparisons to Mitt Romney. Yeah, they’re nothing alike. They’re just both former governors from wealthy families whose parents gave them super-weird names.- Jimmy Fallon

Fox News Gets Caught Lying. Again.
Steve Emerson, the Fox News contributor who has been widely mocked for claiming non-Muslims are too afraid to go to Birmingham, has been dismissed a "complete idiot" by the prime minister.

When Karl Marx said 'Religion is the Opium of the People' he couldn't have imagined 500 cable channels and porn on demand.- John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

If you ever called french fries "freedom fries," shut up about France. You are a tool and your opinions are of no value to anyone.- Jeff Tiedrich tweet

Happy 13th Anniversary GITMO!
Protesters wearing orange jumpsuits and bags over their heads rallied outside of the White House Sunday to protest Guantanamo Bay on the 13th anniversary of the first prisoners arriving at the detention facility.

REMEMBER: The GOP demanded lower gas prices that may bust America's oil industry and drain the life out of several red states.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

As appealing as publicly whipping bloggers sounds, criminalizing blasphemy is abhorrent. Surely the GOP will call for a Saudi embargo now.- LOLGOP

Ford Wins Best Truck Award
Ford's big move to aluminum for the body of its flagship F-150 truck has helped it garner some additional material: The hardware that comes with the North American Truck of the Year Award.

If God had wanted humans to be able to remember more than 3 passwords at once He'd have given us bigger brains. - John Fugelsang

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The stairway to heaven? Machu Picchu , Peru.
Peace.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Bush Team Sets Bold Fundraising Goal: $100 Million in Three Months

Bush Team Sets Bold Fundraising Goal: $100 Million in Three Months
Jeb Bush's allies are setting a fundraising goal of $100 million in the first three months of this year—including a whopping $25 million haul in Florida—in an effort to winnow the potential Republican presidential primary field with an audacious display of financial strength.

Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush Presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one. –David Letterman

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

I wonder what al Qaeda's satirical magazine would look like.- Lizz Winstead Tweet

Weird how the guys who think they're so tough on terror didn't stop 9/11, didn't get bin Laden and bungled us into a mire in Iraq.- LOLGOP

Violence Works
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered Muslims by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad 10 years ago, will not republish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons due to security concerns, the only major Danish newspaper not to do so.

"It shows that violence works," the newspaper stated in its editorial on Friday.

For the cost of the Iraq War, we could made college tuition free for every American for decades. - LOLGOP

Saudi Arabia Flogs Journalist
A liberal activist sentenced to prison and flogging in Saudi Arabia underwent the first round of 50 lashes in public after Friday prayers, rights watchdog Amnesty International said.

Republican Shenanigans

That awkward moment when Republicans say “Not All Cops” and then blame ALL ONE BILLION MUSLIMS for Charlie Hebdo.- Tea Party Cat

Fox ~~News~~ Noise
Fox News anchor Shannon Bream on Wednesday pondered how observers would've known that the gunmen who perpetuated the terrorist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were bad guys if they didn't know what their skin color was.

New Ten Commandments monument set up at Oklahoma statehouse
A new Ten Commandments monument was installed on Oklahoma state capitol grounds on Thursday to replace a previous one that was destroyed when a man drove his car into it.

Hi, it's cold and I don't read much so that proves 97% of the world's scientists are wrong about climate change.- John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

Republicans are as mad at Obama when good things happen as we were at Bush when terrible things happened, all the time, for 8 years.- LOLGOP

After Obama proposed offering free tuition at community college, Ted Cruz introduced a bill raising community college tuition to $1 million.- Tea Party Cat

“I feel like Bush presidencies are like ‘Godfather’ films. You should stop at two.” – David Letterman

Next on Fox News: Charlie Hebdo perpetrators killed, though House GOP investigating whether they died to cover up Obama's role in it.- Tea Party Cat

Business/Tech News

EVERYONE KNOWS: If you give poor people a break, they get lazy. If you give rich people a break, jobs explode from their every orifice.- LOLGOP

Keystone Pipeline OK'd By Nebraska
A decision by the Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday clearing the way for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline through the state means President Barack Obama can no longer delay the project, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said.

Keystone XL is the Justin Bieber underwear ad of jobs plans. Even if it works, it's terrible for the environment.- LOLGOP

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The Great Wall of China. Cross country skies would come in handy.

Best wishes for a peaceful weekend.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Charlie Hebdo attack: Hunt for killers focuses on northern France
The intense manhunt for the two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre focused Thursday on northern France's Picardy region, where helicopters swarmed overhead and heavily armed officers canvassed the countryside and forests in search of the killers.

Does anyone even doubt that Americans will defend our right to make a joke of anything? We're even considering another Bush.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

If your religion tells you that God wants someone dead but doesn't feel like killing them Himself then your religion sucks at religion.- John Fugelsang

Al Qaeda Spokesman Instructs Terrorists To Stock Up At Local Gun Shows
In a video released today Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn encourages terrorists to use American gun shows to arm themselves for potential Mumbai-style attacks. Gadahn's video laid out a new tactic for Al Qaeda to continue their murderous terrorist agenda...

That awkward moment when the NRA demands absolute gun rights and then Al Qaeda has members stock up at US gun shows- Top Conservative Cat

West Point Prof Preaches Disability Money Harmful For Wounded Vets
Nearly 200 sick and wounded soldiers in a gym at Fort Carson last month listened silently as Lt. Col. Daniel Gade offered a surprising warning: The disability checks designed to help troops like them after they leave the service might actually be harmful.

I guess one part of their plan that the terrorists didn't think through is now Charlie Hebdo's cartoons are being seen by millions around the world instead of a few thousand in Paris.- Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

And now, America's media asks why moderate conservatives won't apologize for the #NAACPBombing. Just kidding; that only applies to Muslims.- John Fugelsang

Republicans Lose
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed on Wednesday to round up enough votes for a bill scaling back various financial reforms, a surprising defeat in an area conservatives hoped to prioritize this year.

Jeb Bush could have a worse name. He could be Nero W. Hoover-Madoff Bush.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

7.9 million lost their insurance under George W. Bush.

600,000 lost private sector jobs.

Anyone know if that guy has a brother?- LOLGOP

The Veto Pen Is Mightier Than The Elephants
The White House threatened more vetoes Wednesday against top-priority legislation of the two-day-old Republican-controlled Congress...

Bill O’Reilly: “The #ParisShooting was out of bounds. Murderous violence is only for Christians killing abortion doctors, not for Muslims.”- Top Conservative Cat

Business/Tech News

Democratic Verbal Fisticuffs Over Free Trade With Asia?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) on Wednesday signaled a readiness to fight against President Obama’s push for a free trade deal with Asian countries in the new year.

My Wild Wind

Here is a short 42 sec video I shot on Monday. I had the brilliant idea of going out on my stairway landing trying to capture the force of the wind. I literally hung on for dear life to the railing.

Mother Nature always wins, we humans can only adapt.