GOP senator critical of Bergdahl deal leaves briefing early to appear on Fox News

GOP senator critical of Bergdahl deal leaves briefing early to appear on Fox News

Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss has complained vociferously that the administration hasn't kept him in the loop

The GOP keeps saying "We aren't saying Bergdahl should have left behind" then explaining why Bergdahl should  have been left behind.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Rice: United States is leading with ‘lethal and non-lethal’ aid to Syria
• Putin: Ceasefire needed for Ukraine talks
• Student Disarmed University Gunman; 1 Killed, 3 Injured
• Wearing disguise, Boko Haram slaughters hundreds
• War Crimes and 9/11: Why Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are Suspects

GOP: IF OBAMA KEEPS CREATING JOBS AND ENDING NEW WARS, WE'RE GOING TO NEED A NEW BUSH . - LOLGOP

Hillary Clinton: Negotiating with Taliban ‘hard to swallow’
Hillary Clinton says in her new memoir that she sought the release of US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, but recognized that negotiating with his Taliban captors would be "hard to swallow" for Americans.

Bowe Bergdahl Firing Squad Is Called Fox News CNN MSNBC ABC CBS, NYT, WSJ, USAToday, Politico... Shiit. He Was Safer With The Taliban. - ElmObamaCarez




Republican Shenanigans

• GOP senator critical of Bergdahl deal leaves briefing early to appear on Fox News
• Mississippi Tea Party Goes Watergate
• Alabama chief justice cites Pledge of Allegiance to show courts need God to function
• Mallard be thy name: New ‘Duck Dynasty’-themed Bible coming in October
• KC goes all-in for 2016 Republican National Convention
• Republican LGBT group GOProud denies that it's shutting down, just 're-branding'

FUN FAX: It's impossible for President Obama to ever release as many prisoners from Guantanamo as George W. Bush did. - LOLGOP

Rand Paul Drones On

Kentucky Senator and Tea Party darling Rand Paul (R) issued a stern warning on Friday to the Taliban combatants freed from the offshore U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

According to The Hill, the libertarian-leaning Paul was talking to Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto when he said that if the ex-Guantanamo prisoners are caught plotting against the U.S., “I would say that there would be a drone with their name on it.”




REMINDER: If you believe Bergdahl should be court martialed you should be extra glad he's home to face justice.- LOLGOP

Cliven Bundy: Welfare King Of All Kings

Scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy owes more money to the federal government than all other ranchers combined, according to the Bureau of Land Management.



Rock The Voter News

• Obama, Putin come face-to-face in France at D-Day event
• Top White House official pushes back on climate, Bergdahl criticism

Get Out And Vote, Democrats!!

Republicans were the top vote-getters in early election returns for key legislative primary races Tuesday, indicating an uphill battle for Democrats seeking to regain their supermajority in November.

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A Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, who is white, recently changed his name to Cesar Chavez to appeal to Latino voters. It backfired when Arizona’s governor immediately deported him.- Jimmy Fallon

Business/Tech News

• Job creation remains steady, 217k jobs added in May
• Bush 41 socks raked in $1 million for RNC

REMINDER: Ending all Bush's wars, restoring all the jobs Bush lost and getting 10+ million health care are impeachable offenses. - LOLGOP

Donald Sterling's Last Laugh: Tax-Free $2 Billion Clippers Sale
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling seems to be sitting pretty. With these high numbers and Sterling’s advanced age, income and estate taxes look bleak, but are they? First, let’s take income tax. Mr. Sterling only paid $12.5 million for the Clippers in 1981.

Last week a 13-year-old girl became the youngest female to climb Mount Everest. She didn't mean to. She was just texting her friend and the next thing she knew she was on top of Mount Everest.- Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• Montana residents finding gold in their tap water
• Police: robbery suspect addicted to golf
• Busty Jesus Inside Gnome Statue Forces Hasty Sale
• No charges for Michigan man who drove across U.S. with corpse
• Kid says teacher taped mouths, prompting probe

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Watkin's Glen, New York.

Peace.

GOP Urged White House To 'Do All It Can' To Get Bowe Bergdahl

GOP Urged White House To 'Do All It Can' To Get Bowe Bergdahl
As soon as President Barack Obama told the nation Saturday evening that America's only prisoner of war in Afghanistan had been rescued, Republican lawmakers and pundits began criticizing the administration on how it handled the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.



Republicans should probably shy away from attributing soldiers' deaths to one person given that they're planning on running a Bush in 2016.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Former POW McCain: Bergdahl Prisoner Swap A 'Mistake'
• Critics should wait for facts before condemning Bergdahl, Hagel says
• Official: 1,800 US troops for Afghan counterterror
• 6 militants killed, 3 Ukrainian troops injured

28 percent say we should take the Bible literally, which explains the demise of Red Lobster.- LOLGOP



California Votes For Homeless Vet's Housing

California residents have voted for a plan to spend $600 million to build houses for homeless veterans in the state with the highest number of ex-servicemen without a roof in the United States.

UPDATE: Republicans entering Day 4 of being mad an American prisoner of war won't be left in Afghanistan.- LOLGOP



Republican Shenanigans

• Ted Cruz: 'Fahrenheit 451 Democrats' Would Ban Books With Campaign Finance Reform
• NY woman’s racist tirade at Dollar General goes viral: ‘Nasty f*cking n*gger!’
• Suit: Hospital employees posted Ohio woman’s STD diagnosis on slut-shaming Facebook page
• Busted: Utah man sets up church where everyone is a minister, no one pays income tax
• Fox ‘expert’ links Bowe Bergdahl’s ballet dancing to Obama’s lack of ‘Americanism’

A fat Chris Christie is the least of his problems. He needs the weight of the right wing. I envision a Tony Soprano and Cliven Bundy photo op. – All Hat No Cattle

Honestly, I wish the GOP's scandalphrenia could stick on the VA thing for a while. There's an actual tragedy to resolve there.- LOLGOP




NRA Changes Mind On Open Carry

 The National Rifle Association has rolled back an earlier statement criticizing "open carry" rallies in Texas in which gun rights advocates have brought military-style assault rifles into public places.

Newly leaked documents show the NSA has been collecting millions of pictures of people online for its sophisticated facial recognition program. Americans said it's a huge violation of their privacy — then they went back to posting selfies every 30 minutes.- Jimmy Fallon

Women Get Raped Twice

Rape victims are still paying medical bills related to their assaults, despite federal efforts to lift that burden, reported PBS.

A new study funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that rape victims are still paying for prevention and treatment of pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections.

Rock The Voter News

• Obama gives backing to Ukraine's new president
• Why Democrats are cheering over Mississippi primary

In a new interview, President Obama revealed that his daughter Malia recently went to her first prom. She wore a corsage on her wrist while her date wore a red laser dot on his head.- Jimmy Fallon

Pie In The Sky: Changing The Constitution On Campaign Spending

Democrats are pushing for an amendment that would allow Congress to rein in campaign spending. It has no chance of passing, highlighting how hard it is to change the US Constitution.

The GOP does too have a plan to address climate change-- repeal Obamacare and let poor people die which will reduce emissions. See?- Top Conservative Ca

Business/Tech News

• Fed: Economy expands across US
• Germany to set new rules for fracking
• Alaska Airlines kicked veteran out of exit row because of his prosthetic leg
• Law professor: If money is speech, outlawing prostitution is unconstitutional

Science deniers must sell their computers made by evil science. They must not support the evil scientists employed by the Internet, either.- AllHatNoCattle

California Takes The Lead, Most States To Follow

 Democratic California Governor Jerry Brown, seeking an unprecedented fourth term, beat out his nearest Republican competitor by more than 35 percentage points in Tuesday’s primary in a race that highlights the shaky state of the Republican Party in the most populous U.S. state.

This week it was announced that golfer Phil Mickelson is under investigation by the FBI for insider trading of Clorox stock. By the way, insider trading of Clorox stock by a professional golfer is the whitest collar crime possible.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Indian girl, 13, becomes youngest to climb Everest
• Florida man allegedly pretending to be police officer tries pulling over actual deputy, doesn’t work out for him
• Drug smugglers pretend to be federal agency
• Michigan village’s entire police department resigns
• Landing plane barely misses hitting sunbather (with video)

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Victoria Falls, Zambia

Peace.

Alabama Bible school puts Hitler quote on billboard to encourage youth indoctrination

Alabama Bible school puts Hitler quote on billboard to encourage youth indoctrination
A Christian ministry in Alabama said this week that it would remove a billboard with a quote by Adolf Hitler that it had used to promote its work with children.




I won't sit back and let gay people marry. But I'll let big oil melt the icecaps because I believe in a lil' something called freedom. - LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Obama offers military help to eastern Europe allies worried by Russia
• U.S. vacates base in Central Asia as Russia's clout rises
• Amid war and shelling, Syrians vote for president
• Netanyahu tells AP he is 'troubled' by US decision

Should've traded Cheney and Bush for Bergdahl. - JC_Christian tweet



Bowe Bergdahl May Be Investigated For Desertion
The Army may still pursue an investigation that could lead to desertion or other charges against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was freed from five years of Taliban captivity in a prisoner exchange last weekend, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.

Are Republicans angrier that the president is trying to avoid a climate catastrophe or that we didn't leave an American with the Taliban? - LOLGOP






Flori-duh Justice: Judge Punches Attorney In Court. Judge Still On Bench. If We Did That, We'd Be Arrested.
A Florida judge is accused of punching a defense attorney Monday during a court hearing....Courtroom observers sat uncomfortably or exchanged incredulous looks during the altercation.

They clapped when the fight sounded as if it had ended.

Big primary in Mississippi today between an old guy who wants to cut food stamps and a young guy who wants to cut food stamps. STAY TUNED! - Top Conservative Cat tweet




Republican Shenanigans

• Fox trashes father of returning POW: Find a razor; you ‘look like a member of the Taliban’
• Tenn. cotton gin boss caught on tape: We ‘hang’ blacks for drinking ‘white people only’ water
• Republican primary in Mississippi gives the Tea Party another chance to defeat the establishment
• Doctors Aren't Strongly Republican Anymore

So Republicans are saying we should give Bergdahl back to the Taliban. - LOLGOP




Just Say Yes!
Offer a chance at presidential mercy, and inmates will line up.
That’s what the federal government found out last month when more than 18,000 prisoners filled out electronic surveys to apply for reduced sentences from President Barack Obama in a new program designed to clear federal prisons of nonviolent offenders, Yahoo News has learned.

Wow. Billionaires Control 'Merica? 
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Tuesday said that billionaires controlled American politics because of the lack of campaign finance laws.
“I’m here because of the flood of dark money into our nation’s political system poises the greatest threat to our democracy that I have witnessed during my tenure in public service,” he said during a Senate Judiciary hearing. “The decisions of the Supreme Court have left the American people with a status quo in which one side’s billionaires are pitted against the other side’s billionaires.”

Rock The Voter News

• Obama creates task force on children who enter U.S. illegally
• California politics: Union-backed Democrats face off against anti-union Democrats

5% of GITMO Taliban releases have come back to fight US under Obama, 30% under Bush.  But there you go, facts, blaming Bush again.- John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• Oil falls; AAA sees declining gas prices in June
• Automakers report strong uptick in May US sales
• German union extends strikes at Amazon warehouses
• FCC website crashes thanks to John Oliver’s call to action on net neutrality
• James Lovelock: 'enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan'

The Failure Of A Liberal City. Not.

 The Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Monday that gradually increases the minimum wage in the city to $15, which would make it the highest in the nation.

Obama's leading the world in the fight on climate change, ending two wars and transforming our health care system. But when will he lead?- LOLGOP

WISHFUL THINKING

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Odd News

• German museum shows live replica of van Gogh's ear
• Entire wedding party takes the plunge
• Ohio police seek man after kindergarten fight
• Thieves take 13,000 diapers from NC nonprofit

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Valle del Pisueña, Cantabria, Spain

Peace.