Ghost of Iraq haunts Condoleezza Rice portrait unveiling

Ghost of Iraq haunts Condoleezza Rice portrait unveiling
Iraq was the ghost in the room Wednesday as Condoleezza Rice returned to the State Department to reflect on her time as the top US diplomat saying history would be the judge.




But I am envious of Liz Cheney. My dad never let me warmonger with him :( . -LOLGOP

Condi Rice said in that CNN interview, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

 "Condoleeza Rice! Sounds like some kind of Mexican food!" - Chris Rock.




The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Obama sending military advisers to Iraq
• Battle for Iraq refinery as U.S. hesitates to strike
• Rebels beg Russia for help as fighting rages
• Gun battle flares as Israeli soldiers seek missing teens
• Two men arrested in Texas on terrorism charges
• PA man accidentally shot, killed by guest of honor at surprise birthday party

This morning the Pentagon announced that the United States has captured a leader responsible for the Benghazi attacks. Republicans were ecstatic and said, "So, they finally got Hillary?"- Conan O'Brien

China and Iraq
 China said on Thursday it was preparing to help evacuate a small number of people working for Chinese companies in Iraq, and repeated an offer to help Iraq fight terrorism though it declined to say if it would provide military support.




If you love soccer, you have to wait four years for a World Cup. It's like making an appointment with a VA doctor.- David Letterman

Republican Shenanigans

• Clueless white Texas commissioners accidentally vote to back slavery reparations
• Bob Jones University told rape victims to repent and look for ‘root sin’ that caused their attack
• Arkansas town bans pagan temple after finding out it’s not Christian: Your ‘God isn’t my God’
• IRS scandal: Lerner's lost e-mails have Republicans charging coverup
• Texas judge ignores DNA tests, refuses parental rights because gay dads are married

Untaxed Crusaders Courted By GOP
 Some of the Republican Party's most ambitious leaders are courting religious conservatives as evangelical Christians claim new momentum in their fight for the GOP's soul.

The Liz & Dick Tag Team
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday standing against President Obama‘s foreign policy, and now they have a YouTube video out announcing a new group, Alliance for a Strong America, with the express purpose of standing against Obama’s foreign policy.



After Dick Cheney critiques Obama's foreign policy, Newt Gingrich will tell us what's wrong with the president's marriage.- LOLGOP







Rock The Voter News

• Two Senators Are Finally Pushing the Most Logical Solution to Paying for Roads

In a new interview, Hillary Clinton said the Bible is the most influential book she's ever read. Some people think she might be pandering to Southern Christian voters. Then Hillary said, "Oh come on y'all — little ol' me?" -Jimmy Fallon

Wisconsin Gov. Scot Walker Is In Deep Doo-Doo
Prosecutors believe Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, illegally coordinated fundraising with conservative groups as part of a nationwide "criminal scheme" to violate election laws, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.



Business/Tech News

• China says moving 2nd oil rig closer to Vietnam
• Fed to Reduce Bond Purchases by $10 Billion Per Month
• Argentina says won't make next bond payment in US
• Immigrant rights groups sue Arizona sheriff over workplace raids

Protesters at the World Cup got into trouble for burning American flags. It's a shame because children in China worked very hard to make those flags.- Conan O'Brien

Does This Supreme Court Ruling Let Snowden Off?
The First Amendment protects public employees from job retaliation when they are called to testify in court about official corruption, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

It's Icelandic Independence Day. Happy Independence Day, Iceland, or as it will be known in 50 years — Waterland.- Craig Ferguson

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Odd News

• Dr. Oz Scolded by Senators for 'Miracle' Weight Loss Claims
• Ugandan TV station ban after president shown 'sleeping'
• Injured man trapped in German cave rescued after 12 days
• Man’s genetic disorder makes one arm supersized, helping him become an arm wrestling champion
• International origami exhibition: showcasing a broad spectrum of possibilities (12 photos)

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Lenticular Cloud over Klyuchevskaya Sopka Mountain, Russia by Denis Budkov: Klyuchevskaya Sopka is a stratovolcano, the highest active volcano of Eurasia.

Peace.

Hillary Clinton: We can’t let gun-loving minority ‘terrorize’ the rest of the country

Hillary Clinton: We can’t let gun-loving minority ‘terrorize’ the rest of the country

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered an apparent rebuke to conservative gun advocates during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, saying she would support a ban on assault weapons.

“We cannot let a minority of people — and that’s what it is, a minority of people — hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people,”...




HOW DARE YOU INTERVIEW HILLARY WITHOUT ARRESTING HER. I JUST ERASED ALL MY FOX NATION COMMENTS AND CANCELED MY INTERNET. - LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Iran vows to defend Iraq Shi'ite sites; insurgents battle for refinery
• Libya condemns U.S. arrest of Benghazi suspect, demands his return
• War crimes charges for Iraqi held at Guantanamo
• Ukraine's Poroshenko sets out ceasefire plan after call with Putin
• Jihadists back from Syria are 'deadly danger' to Europe, Germany warns
• China scolds Vietnam for 'hyping' South China Sea oil rig row

REMINDER: The problem isn't just that the media still interviews the Iraq War maniac squad. These guys STILL define the GOP foreign policy.- LOLGOP

WWF: Cheney Tag Team

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz penned an acerbic op-ed on Tuesday accusing President Obama of “abandoning” Iraq and putting Americans at greater risk of terrorist attacks from al Qaeda.




"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many."
- Dick Cheney, not talking about himself

Iraqi Troops Left To Fend For Themselves
The Iraqi soldiers tell of how they can hardly live with the shame of their rout under the onslaught of the Islamic militants. Their commanders disappeared. Pleas for more ammunition went unanswered. Troops ran from post to post only to find them already taken by gunmen, forcing them to flee.

Republican Shenanigans

• Tea Party groups tiptoe in race to replace GOP’s Cantor as House majority leader
• Jon Stewart levels Rick Perry: ‘Being gay is not a choice, but being a Texas Republican is’
• ‘Clueless’ actress Stacey Dash: It’s ‘propaganda’ to say GOP is against marriage equality
• SC man decapitates Jesus statue because ‘Second or First Commandment’ ordered him to

Imagine being in a political party where everyone is afraid to tell Dick Cheney to shut up.- LOLGOP

Government Axes Washington R*dskin's Trademark
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration because the NFL team’s name is “disparaging to Native Americans.”



Are Republicans angrier that we brought the last prisoner from Afghanistan home or that the Benghazi guy was arrested?- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Hillary Clinton notes distance from Obama on Syria rebels
• The Unbelievable Missing IRS Emails

The War On The US Gubmint
A 60-year-old California man calling himself a “sovereign citizen” was accused of shooting Bureau of Land Management agent and a California Highway Patrol officer...

You guys hired a squirrel to try to make the Democrats look bad in 2016. But we just put a camera on Rick Perry.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

• Crude oil heading to $150: Fund manager
• Tesla’s Elon Musk on making electric car patents public: ‘We’re really all in the same ship’
• Is this antenna start-up Gates' next blockbuster?
• Will TV be free again?

Whether they're in office or not, Republicans are better at creating scandals than jobs.- LOLGOP




Finally, Miami Exiles Want An Open Policy With Cuba

Cuban exile Joe Arriola at one time would never have dreamed of returning to his homeland while it was under communist rule...Arriola, 67, said a week-long trip to the island last year had opened his eyes to what he now believes is a failed U.S. policy of trying to isolate Cuba

Alex Trebek has broken a world record for game-show hosts, after hosting 6,829 shows in his career. When asked how he's made it through so many shows, Trebek said, “What is Scotch?”- Jimmy Fallon

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Odd News

• Fierce feline who terrorized family stumps TV host
• California mayor curbs self over dog poop incident
• Man tried to toss drug-filled football into prison
• Former Porn Star Runs For School Board
• Naked Woman Vandalized, Flooded Stranger's Home: Cops
• Georgia man accidentally shoots his own penis while trying to holster gun

Time To Deflate Photo

Tibetan Bridge In Claviere, Piedmont, Italy.

Peace.

Supreme Court Moves Toward Legalizing Lying In Campaigns

Supreme Court Moves Toward Legalizing Lying In Campaigns

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an unanimous opinion Monday that the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List has standing to sue over an Ohio law that prevented it from making false statements about a political candidate in 2010.



16% support sending combat troops to deal with the crisis in Iraq, that rises to 29% if the troops are all named Bush and Romney.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• U.S. Captures Benghazi Attack Suspect
• Iraq's Maliki defies call to reach out, accuses Saudis of 'genocide'
• Will ISIS plan a 9/11-style terror plot against the US?
• Israel ramps up pressure on Hamas in hunt for missing teens

Obama sending 275 troops to Iraq. There are 278 Republicans in Congress (233 House + 45 Senate), so which 3 get to stay home?- Top Conservative Cat

The Largest US Embassy In The World Is In Iraq
American combat troops in Iraq may be heading to the exits -- or not -- but the U.S. government's enormously expensive intervention there is hardly coming to an end.

In a telling sign of how dangerous and chaotic Iraq remains more than eight years after President George W. Bush launched the war against Saddam Hussein, U.S. diplomats, military advisers and other officials are planning to fall back to the gargantuan embassy in Baghdad -- a heavily fortified, self-contained compound the size of Vatican City




“This is a direct result of the U.S. intervention, and I don’t want to say I told you so, but this was foreseen. So, right now, Al Qaeda is fighting Iran. That’s what’s going on. I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing in the general sense of things. We should not get involved in this. If Al Qaeda wants to fight Iran, let them do it.” – Richard Clarke

Republican Shenanigans

• Erin Burnett Grills Paul Bremer on Iraq: 'Aren't You the One Who Got Us into This Mess?'
• MSNBC Guest to Bill Kristol: America Thinks Your Plan to Go Back into Iraq Is 'Nuts'
• Tea Partier Chris McDaniel’s Mississippi KKK Connection
• NC GOP Senate candidate: Blacks, Hispanics overtaking ‘traditional population’
• 'Today' Makes Priceless Donald Trump Correction

Iraq is a mess, but we should blame Hillary for voting for the war, not the Bush administration who lied to get approval and then botched it. - Top Conservative Cat




Joe Scarborough Is Still A Big Bully
Reminder: Scarborough Tried To Shut Down This Website
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who has a history of attacking peopling on the Internet for mentioning that a dead intern was found in his congressional offices, said on Tuesday that the Supreme Court should force Google to remove “crap” search results.

Eric Cantor was the Tea Party’s biggest ally in Congress. He didn’t know what hit him. After the concession speech he made, on the way home, he was saying, 'I don’t get it. I was unreasonable. I was uninformed. I was hateful. What happened?'” – Bill Maher



Rock The Voter News

• Chelsea Clinton's HUGE NBC Salary Draws Criticism

“If we bombed Iraq, we would be working with the Shiites, which means we’d be allies with Iran. We would be part of the Axis of Evil!” – Bill Maher 

Where Freedom Of Speech And The 2nd Amendment Collide

An eastern New York teacher has sued the school district that fired him over online comments he made to a “medium” while playing the game Words With Friends.

The Bedford school district fired 35-year-old Adam Heller following a disciplinary hearing to discuss Sandy Hook conspiracy theories and apparent threats made by the English teacher during the online game

Business/Tech News

• Oil prices slip as US deploys small force to Iraq
• Retirees Suffer as 401(k) Rollover Boom Enriches Brokers
• Jon Stewart Is A More Trusted News Source Than MSNBC, Study Says
• Actor Who Hawks Gold to Fox Viewers Is Actually 'Big Fan' of Obama
• Woman Jailed Over Outstanding Debt Dies in Her Cell

OBAMA REFUSES TO FOLLOW BUSH PRECEDENT OF LETTING THE NEXT GUY CLEAN UP YOUR TERRORISTS . - LOLGOP



China And Iraq
As the situation in Iraq worsens, China is showing increasing consternation. And while authorities have mainly issued broad statements of concern, it’s no secret what worries those in charge in Beijing: the risks the crisis could pose to its Iraqi-sourced oil supply and China’s three petro-majors, all active in the country.

Illinois passes law banning police ticket quotas. Residents celebrate with drag racing and public urination.- The Daily Show Tweet

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Odd News

• Court: $1.8M house built on park must be removed
• Meth lab found at California retirement community
• Long Island couple finds 3-foot python in couch
• New Mexico blind man gets auto mechanics degree
• Florida teen looks just like Elsa from Disney’s “Frozen”

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Glass beach, California.

Peace.