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Monday, June 30, 2014

Christian or Sharia Law?

White House: Supreme Court jeopardizes the health of women with Hobby Lobby ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that some business owners are not required to provide birth control coverage to employees puts women’s health at risk, the White House said on Monday, and called on Congress to make contraception widely available.

REMINDER: Birth control prevents abortions, unlike conservatives.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Think it's tough to explain to Americans how popular soccer is? Imagine telling foreigners there are Americans who'd vote for another Bush.- LOLGOP

Bush Mercenary Effect
Newly disclosed documents show that a senior Blackwater employee stymied an investigation into the security contractor’s operations in Iraq by threatening to kill a State Department investigator, The New York Times reported. The documents, which included a memo from Aug. 31, 2007, raised questions about whether increased governmental oversight could have prevented the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians killed by Blackwater contractors on Sept. 16, 2007, in Nisour Square, Baghdad.

This means its okay for me to kick a Supreme Court Justice right in the shin because my religion considers punishing stupidity a sacrament.- Will Durst Tweet

Conservatives spread fear that immigration reform could lead to more soccer.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Tea Party Recruitment Failure

The chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans (MFCR) said on Monday that he had resigned, and was in the process of switching his party affiliation to Democrat because of the extremism of Tea Party members.

There's no way the GOP could ever look back and regret killing immigration reform & siding with men who want to deny birth control coverage.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

Newt Gingrich can now object to your birth control coverage on moral grounds. Rush Limbaugh. Donald Trump.

On moral grounds. - LOLGOP

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Justice Ruth Bader Socks It To Chief Justice Roberts
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said the ruling on the Hobby Lobby case was based on a misreading of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and would likely open the door to a host of unintended consequences.

“Little doubt that RFRA claims will proliferate, for the Court’s expansive notion of corporate personhood – combined with its other errors in construing RFRA – invites for-profit entities to seek religion-based exemptions from regulations they deem offensive to their faith,” she wrote.

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Thanks to Justice Alito and George W. Bush, we'll soon find out all kinds of weird things our boss' think their religions believe.- LOLGOP

And The Supreme Court Next Act: Rules Against Unions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to unions by ruling that in-home care workers in Illinois who are paid by the state are not similar enough to full-fledged government employees to be compelled to pay union dues.

A big movie opened. "Transformers: Age of Extinction." You know, the Transformers — they transform. They are robots in disguise. I don't know if it will do well. After all these World Cup games, Americans can't handle any more excitement.- Craig Ferguson

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Mt. Roraima, the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana and one of the oldest geological formations on Earth.

Peace.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Massachusetts Abortion Clinics Boost Security After Supreme Court Ruling On Buffer Zones

Massachusetts Abortion Clinics Boost Security After Supreme Court Ruling On Buffer Zones
Massachusetts is beefing up security around abortion clinics and scrambling for a legal fix after the U.S. Supreme Court voided the state's buffer zone law that kept protesters 35 feet away, saying it violated freedom of speech.

Boston, Worcester and Springfield, the state's largest cities, have deployed extra police to clinics, and abortion-provider Planned Parenthood said it was training new "patient escorts" to help women through protests if needed.

REMINDER: Unlike screaming at women trying to get into clinics, Obamacare actually prevents abortions.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

"I guess now Dick Cheney knows what it feels like when someone you thought was a friend shoots you in the face." --Jon Stewart on Fox News' Megyn Kelly calling out Cheney for being wrong on Iraq

Rand Paul Versus Dick Cheney
On the Sunday morning television shows this past weekend—against the backdrop of an Iraq in flames—former Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continued their ongoing feud and the battle for the (national security) soul of the Republican Party. In recent months, as Mother Jones has reported that Paul in 2009 accused Cheney of using 9/11 as an excuse to launch the Iraq invasion to benefit Halliburton (the corporation Cheney once led) and called on the GOP to disassociate itself with the former vice president, Cheney's allies have slammed the senator for expressing reckless positions.

SO HARD TO SPLIT MY TIME THESE DAYS BETWEEN MAKING SURE POOR PEOPLE DON'T GET MEDICAID AND YELLING AT PREGNANT WOMEN. - LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Impeachment - n. the appropriate punishment for any Democratic president being elected twice. - LOLGOP

WTF?
A top official with New York’s Oath Keepers chapter sparred with a Fox News radio host over an individual’s right to disobey laws they believe to be unconstitutional.

The group, which is comprised mostly of retired and active-duty law enforcement personnel, claims they are not bound to enforce such laws due to their oaths to defend the constitution.

Mississippi Tea Party Lawyer Commits Suicide
One of the supporters of Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) who was allegedly involved in directing a political blogger to break into the nursing home of Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) wife, has committed suicide, according to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger of Mississippi.

Republicans killed immigration reform again, but at least they sacrificed Marco Rubio's political career to do it.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

One year ago today, the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Leaders in the House have failed to act. - President Barack Obama tweet

Tea Party Won't Accept Mississippi Loss
The Tea Party-backed candidate refusing to concede defeat to Republican U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi's primary runoff said his campaign has found more than 1,000 instances of ballots cast by people who were ineligible to vote.

40% of US Want To Be The World Police
Most Americans want the United States to do less overseas, with the question of the country’s global role divisive across the political spectrum, a survey said Thursday.

Six in ten said the United States should focus more on home and less overseas, according to a wide-ranging study of US political views by the Pew Research Center.

Why do conservatives think the poor have it easy? There's lots on TV that tells them that & almost none that shows how hard it is to be poor. - LOLGOP

Chris McDaniel wants to spend the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer invalidating black votes. Tea Party loves helping Dems keep the Senate.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

75% of conservatives say the poor have it easy, which explains why their policy is to create more poors.- LOLGOP

Bernie Madoff Effect?
The stock market is fragmented into over 50 individual marketplaces owned and operated by the giants of finance, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and other large securities firms who do not allow customers not to their liking to trade there. These “dark pools” are “dark” because they are not transparent to the public, to ordinary traders or to the media.

The U.S. lost to Germany today, but because FIFA rules dictate that teams get one point for a tie, three points for a win, and zero points for a loss, and both the U.S. and Portugal had a score of four, and because the U.S. had a higher goal differential, the U.S. still advances. That's the rules — and that in a nutshell is why Americans don't follow soccer.- Conan O'Brien

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World's highest climbing wall, Netherlands.

Best Wishes for a peaceful weekend and may your futbol team win.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic buffer zone

Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic buffer zone
Abortion remains an issue that divides the Supreme Court, but the justices had less disagreement Thursday in defending the free speech rights of abortion opponents.

The court ruled unanimously that Massachusetts went too far -- literally -- when it created 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics to keep demonstrators away from patients.

How long before this court decides the Twitter block button in unconstitutional because it prevents conservatives from yelling at women?- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Spy vs. Spy vs Spy
U.S. military advisors arriving in Iraq better be careful who they talk to and where they go: Their Iraq ‘allies’ will almost certainly be spying on them.

According to three current and former CIA officers, the Iraqi government, led by Muslim Shiites with close ties to Iran, has waged an aggressive campaign against the spy agency and other U.S. security personnel in the country for several years. “They cover us like a blanket,” says former CIA official

"President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.'" –David Letterman

It's OK When Republicans Do It!
John Huppenthal, the Republican public schools chief in Arizona, announced yesterday that he will not quit in the face of controversy over his once-anonymous blog comments. Under the usernames Falcon9 and Thucydides, Huppenthal suggested, among other things, that Spanish language should be outlawed in the United States.

"President Obama's approval rating in the U.S. is at its lowest point ever, 41 percent. After hearing this, the president said, 'When did I become less popular in this country than soccer? How did that happen?'" –Conan O'Brien

Republican Shenanigans

Supreme Court Declares Obama's 2012 Recess Appointments Invalid
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the powers of the presidency Thursday, ruling decisively that President Obama violated the Constitution by going around the Senate to name key labor and financial watchdogs.

Resolving a longstanding battle between the two other branches of government, the justices declared invalid key "recess appointments" made by Obama in 2012.

Speaker Boehner to sue President Obama for issuing fewer executive orders than any president in a century. - LOLGOP

The Eyes Have It

An Alabama Christian radio host who runs an anti-abortion “clinic” told activists on Thursday that women’s health care services like contraception were the true “war on women” because they came from the “pit of hell.”

If your doctor has the right to talk to you about your abortion, why not the crazy shrieking stalker on the sidewalk, huh? First Amendment!- Kaili Joy Gray

Rock The Voter News

The Far Right Reminds Me Of 14 Year Old Boys
One anti-immigrant group has started an “Underwear for Illegals” campaign that asks Americans to send dirty underwear to undocumented immigrants and top politicians in order to stop the “new surge of illegal immigrants crossing America’s borders, enticed by promises of immigration reform amnesty.”

A guy outside of a McDonald's tried to break up a fight and he got stabbed in the back. He then took out his cellphone and called a buddy. This gives you an idea how bad crime is in New York City. People don't even notice now when they've been stabbed.- David Letterman

Business/Tech News

John Boehner to sue Obama for filling the power vacuum Congress created. - Dana Milbank

NY Sues British Bank For Fraud. No Word On Suing U.S. Banks.
Shares in Barclays plunged by more than six percent on Thursday after New York prosecutors sued the British bank for fraud — the latest blow to hit the scandal-hit company.

If you find yourself ordering a Grande Iced Organic Half-Caf Fair-Trade Non-Fat Caramel Macchiato it's time to leave L.A. - John Fugelsang

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Amazing photo of a super cell thunderstorm in Colorado taken by photographer Marko Korošec.

Peace.