Friday, May 23, 2014

Tennessee brings back electric chair







Tennessee brings back electric chair

Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.


“If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow”. ~ Steve Allen quotes (American Comic, Actor, Composer and Writer, 1921-2000)






The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam




REPUBLICANS SHOCKED TO DISCOVER THAT THE PEOPLE THEY SEND TO WAR EVENTUALLY NEED HEALTH CARE. - LOLGOP








The US Navy Believes In Climate Change

Sea level rise impacting naval bases. Climate change altering natural disaster response. Drought influenced by climate change in the Middle East and Africa leading to conflicts over food and water — as in, for instance, Syria.



Republicans who are complaining about the "quality" of care we give to prisoners at Gitmo also don't want to close Gitmo.- LOLGOP




Seems to me that there are more school shootings, because there are more guns available.



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OSHA/Obama Basher's Business Has Horrific Accident

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Wisconsin businessman Lance Johnson said President Barack Obama's workplace safety inspectors were burdening him and killing jobs with too much red tape.

"I've never been audited by more government agencies in my life than I have under Obama," Johnson, president of Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry Inc., in Saukville, Wisconsin, told The Wall Street Journal in a Nov. 2, 2012, campaign story.

On Monday, Johnson's foundry was the site of a horrifying industrial accident.




Scandals uncovered by the GOP: Some terrorist attacks can't be stopped, veterans need more health care & Tea Partiers try to avoid tax laws.- LOLGOP






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Tennessee approved the use of the electric chair again, with the added provision that none of the electricity be generated by wind or solar. - Tea Party Cat



Well, If Joe Scarborough Hasn't Heard Racist Statements About Obamacare, Then It Must Be True!

Joe Scarborough said Friday that he doesn't understand what evidence Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has to back up his claim that opposition to President Barack Obama's signature health care law is driven by his race. "I must say, I have been behind closed doors with thousands of conservatives through the years. I have never once heard one of them say in the deep south or in the northeast or in South Boston, 'Boy, I really hate Obamacare because that black president'






GOP Wants Unlimited Supply of Lipstick For Their Pigs

The Republican National Committee on Friday sued the Federal Election Commission in an effort to raise unlimited cash like super PACs do.




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Blessed are the conservatives, for they may select their own facts.
--Book of Murdoch, 7:14 - Tea Party Cat



UN Jumps All Over Vatican Torture
A United Nations committee concluded Friday that the Vatican has effective worldwide control over bishops and priests who must comply with a U.N. anti-torture treaty, a finding that could expose the Catholic Church to new lawsuits by victims of clerical sex abuse.





"The U.S. Cardinals said they are going to develop a code of ethics to help them deal with the sexual scandal. Wait a minute, I thought their already was a code of ethics, it's called the Bible." —Jay Leno







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Donald Sterling had one pump fake left in him

Donald Sterling has signed the Los Angeles Clippers over to his wife Shelly, a source close to the team confirmed today to ABC News.

Shelly Sterling, who previously shared ownership of the beleaguered NBA franchise with Donald, is now in talks with the NBA over selling the team, the source said.







The best part of the Kimye wedding is the $ saved by serving all that food from Kim's last wedding that's still fresh.- John Fugelsang






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Huaya Picchu which offers an extrordinary view of Machu Picchu, Peru.

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Florida Is Disappearing, Inch By Inch


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How South Florida Is Ignoring The State’s Leading Politicians And Taking On Climate Change

Susanne Torriente remembers waking up on Thanksgiving morning in 2012 and discovering that four blocks of Florida’s main coastal highway had washed away overnight.
Tropical Storm Sandy, before it turned into a superstorm and traveled up the East Coast, was the immediate culprit, as were the smaller storms that hit South Florida in the following weeks. But none of those storms had been major, not by Florida standards. Instead, it was high tide combined with sea level rise that had washed significant amounts of sand away from the beach and wiped out State Road A1A alongside it.



Having spent most of my 64 years in South Florida, I can honestly say, it has always been a flood zone, as most of South Florida is just a few feet above sea level.



"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak posted several tweets mocking people who believe in global warming. The tweet was hard to understand because Sajak didn't buy any vowels.- Conan O'Brien








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ACTUAL SCANDAL: Republicans are denying 250,000 veterans health insurance for the freedumb of it. - LOLGOP







Half-Term Palin Calls Obama Lazy. Is Shiftless and Shuffling Next?

Fox News contributor and half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this week that veterans had died waiting for health care from Veterans Affairs facilities because President Barack Obama was “lazy” due to his upbringing.




Sarah Palin has basically decided to become B-roll for documentaries about the worst reactions to the first black president.- LOLGOP







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Difference between reproductive rights & gun rights? Someone is coming for your reproductive rights. - LOLGOP






Fox News Anchor Gets DWI In Airport: Doofus While Intoxicated




A Fox News anchor was arrested Wednesday in a bar at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.

Gregg Jarrett, a weekend co-anchor on the conservative news channel, was taken into police custody about 12:30 p.m. at Northern Lights Grill in the main terminal, said a spokesman for the airport...The broadcaster was released on $300 bond shortly after 1:30 a.m., according to authorities.







Republican poll numbers went down when they embraced Cliven Bundy in late April, and they're still going down.  Check out this poll compilation chart



Pretending the Tea Party weren't just louder Republicans, was the right's strategy in 2009 and it's still the right's strategy in 2014.- LOLGOP




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Give food stamps to defense contractors and Republicans will stop demanding cuts. - LOLGOP



Supreme Court Halts Execution

 The Supreme Court issued a new stay on Wednesday to halt the execution of a Missouri death row inmate because his lawyers say he suffers from a rare health condition that could lead to undue suffering from a lethal injection.







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How about we spend the millions that will go into the GOP Benghazi witch hunt on something crazy like... maybe embassy security?- LOLGOP






Yep, The Rich Are Getting Richer And The Rest Of Us Shop At Dollar Tree


A polarisation of the American economy, which has been supportive of top earners but pushed many middle-income earners into more cautious buying habits, was on display as retailers catering to both to high- and low-income spenders outperformed those focused on the middle.
Shares of Williams-Sonoma, the upmarket maker of furniture, and Dollar Tree advanced after reporting better than expected quarterly profits.





The NBA gave Donald Sterling until Tuesday to respond. His lawyer asked for a three-month extension to prepare. I'll tell you what's happening here. He is stalling. Sterling is going to keep this in court until he dies. He is basically trying to run out the clock on being alive.- Jimmy Kimmel







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Sea Horse - Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Tea party support hits new lows: Poll









Tea party support hits new lows: Poll
The tea party was an important factor in the 2010 elections, but its support may be waning, according to a new CBS News poll. Today, just 15 percent of Americans say they are supporters of the tea party movement - the lowest since CBS News began asking about the tea party in February 2010.



Congratulations to Mitch McConnell for making a teabagger choke.- John Fugelsang








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Always nice to see Republicans take a break from voting against veterans funding to criticize the VA.- LOLGOP



Obama Has Confidence in Shinseki. For Now.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to get to the bottom of alleged misconduct at Veterans Affairs agency hospitals, calling the reported activity "dishonorable" and "disgraceful" but expressing confidence that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki will continue working with the administration to solve the problem "at this stage."







How is China spying on Alcoa different from NSA spying on Petrobras?

 The National Security Agency has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil’s huge national oil company, but angry Brazilians have guesses: the company’s troves of data on Brazil’s offshore oil reserves, or perhaps its plans for allocating licenses for exploration to foreign companies.

Nor has the N.S.A. said what it intended when it got deep into the computer systems of China Telecom, one of the largest providers of mobile phone and Internet services in Chinese cities. 



The U.S. is accusing Chinese military officials of spying. When asked why they did it, the Chinese officials said it's payback for all the times your students cheated off the Asian kid.- Conan O'Brien







FUN FAX™: That Republicans even have to spend money in Kentucky and Georgia is a win for Democrats.- LOLGOP



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Global temperatures in April tied for the hottest on record, as Obama has now got the Earth itself in on his "climate change" hoax. - TeaPartyCat







SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BANS FALLING FASTER THAN TEA PARTIERS IN GOP PRIMARIES. - LOLGOP








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A man in Phoenix accidentally shot himself in the leg while in line at Walmart on Saturday. Or, as they call that in Arizona, “taking a selfie.”- Seth Myers






‘Incarceration if you’re poor, payment if you’re rich’

An NPR investigation into how judges assess fees and fines to defendants has revealed that many who enter the courtroom essentially end up in “debtor’s prisons.”



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In New Hampshire, a police commissioner who called President Obama a racial slur has resigned. He also publicly apologized to New Hampshire's entire black community, a guy named Steve.- Conan O'Brien






Koch Brothers Trying To End Detroit?

Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group supported by the Koch brothers, has launched an effort to torpedo a proposed settlement in the Detroit bankruptcy case, potentially complicating chances for completing the deal just as its prospects seemed to be improving.



Atheism is a nonprophet organization.- Steven Wright







New York City is now bidding on the 2024 Olympics. And it was announced earlier today that New York City has been awarded the 2016 Kim Kardashian wedding. - David Letterman



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Aspen trees in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

Peace.