Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Shortened edition today






NOTICE:

Today is just an itty bitty edition. But I just had to comment on Benghazi Battle updates and Monica Lewinsky. I need rest, and someone to ice me down!


Benghazi!



The real reason for that new GOP Benghazi probe

When he announced the creation of a new select House committee to investigate Benghazi, Speaker John Boehner claimed it was necessary in the wake of the disclosure of a new smoking-gun email that showed new levels of stone-walling from the Obama administration.
But what if the new committee was more a response to a failure on the part of House GOP investigators to find any real smoking gun?


Find me a Republican who isn't fundraising off Benghazi.- LOLGOP


Benghazi








Monica Lewinsky Returns

Monica Lewinsky writes in Vanity Fair for the first time about her affair with President Clinton: “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” She also says: “I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”


Monica Lewinsky arrives just in time to remind us Republicans waste millions investigating BS.- LOLGOP









“It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” - Monica Lewinsky




GOP and Democrats Agree On Something. Oy Vay!

A state Senator’s blog post likening the insurance requirement under President Barack Obama’s health care law to the forced deportation of Jews during the Holocaust drew swift condemnation Monday from leaders of both parties in Tennessee.







It's not like Republicans are reminding people that they impeached a president over nothing then lied America into war, decline & torture.- LOLGOP



You Can't Fix Stupid.

An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy was shot dead over the weekend when his uncle was showing off a number of guns that he thought were unloaded, and pointed one with a laser sight at the child’s forehead.







On this Teacher Appreciation Day, let's remember that Republicans trust teachers with guns but not with a union.- LOLGOP



What Great News! Finally!

The United States offered Tuesday to send a team of experts to Nigeria to help find more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls amid a wave of outrage over their abduction.

US Secretary of State John Kerry made the offer in a phone call to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, who welcomed it, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.






What's amazing is that Republicans think Benghazi and Lewinsky are winning issues even after losing elections with both.- LOLGOP






Climate is like the deficit. Republicans will leave it to a Democratic president to clean it up and blame her for not doing it fast enough.- LOLGOP






Saturday was World Naked Gardening Day. Well, at least according to a man being dragged away in handcuffs.- Seth Myers





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Time To Deflate


Peace.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Body Heat

I am suffering from heat exhaustion. My gringo body can't handle this heat. My doctor suggested that I either get air conditioning or move to the high mountains where it is cooler year round. Yeah, sure. :(
Please check back as I will post as soon as I feel better.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Boehner calls for select committee on Benghazi; Kerry subpoenaed






Boehner calls for select committee on Benghazi; Kerry subpoenaed

Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday that he would form a House select committee to investigate the September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.



I wonder how much money Republicans have spent investigating Hillary Clinton for the past three decades? 30 million, 50 million, 100 million? So far, no bang for OUR bucks.



"The Republicans in Congress voted no on the minimum wage. Wow, that's not the Republicans I know. I think they're confused. We're supposed to apply the economic sanctions to the Russians." –David Letterman








The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam




"Yesterday Russia's deputy prime minister said the White House should revise its sanctions or else his country won't help NASA. And this is true, astronauts will have to start using a trampoline to get to space." –Jimmy Fallon



Obama and Merkel versus Putin

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday ratcheted up the threat of economic backlash against Russia, saying they are preparing broader sanctions if Moscow continues to stoke violence in eastern Ukraine in the run-up to elections later this month.







Republican Shenanigans




I think Republicans may really in a position to win the votes of Americans who think #Benghazi is bigger tragedy than Iraq or 9/11.- LOLGOP








Obummercare Is Back!

A new report this morning confirms that Republicans intend to use upcoming confirmation hearings for Obama’s HHS nominee to breathe new life into political attacks on Obamacare in advance of the 2014 elections.
Democrats should absolutely relish this development.



If Obama gets anyone else health insurance or creates any more jobs the House GOP will be forced to reveal he was born on grassy knoll.- LOLGOP






Certainly your predominately African-American "militia" is permitted to set up checkpoints anywhere it likes in Nevada, no?- LOLGOP



Rock The Voter News








Too Much South In Your Mouth Is Deadly


People in the southeastern United States have a much greater risk of dying early from any of the nation's five leading causes of death, federal health officials reported Thursday.




BTW: It's time to start calling the Great Recession the Bush Recession because they're actually thinking of running another one. -- LOLGOP







Business News



No Need To Worry About Mount St. Helens. Fingers crossed.

Magma levels are slowly rebuilding inside Mount St. Helens, a volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980 and killed 57 people, although there was no sign of an impending eruption, U.S. scientists said.







FUN FAX: The only jobs we haven't recovered from the Bush recession are gubbermint jobs. - LOLGOP



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Odd News




Time To Deflate Photo




Would you take a chance on this swing in Casa Del Arbol, Baños, Ecuador?

I hope you all have a peaceful weekend.