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Monday, July 7, 2014

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 5 Years Ago Sarah Palin Quit Her Job As Governor

Sarah Palin Is Publicly Auditioning To Join 'The View'
Sarah Palin is dropping subtle hints that she might want to be a panelist on "The View." And by "subtle hints," we mean that she is explicitly saying in an interview that she might want to be a panelist on "The View."

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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You Go, Girls!
More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.

Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday.

The GOP has been extremely successful in its outreach to corporations, fertilized eggs and adults who yell at buses filled with children.- LOLGOP

Germany Is Pissed At US
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday allegations that a German man had worked as a double agent for U.S. intelligence were serious and, if true, were a clear contradiction of what cooperation between partners is supposed to be about.

Republican Shenanigans

GOP House Gives Finger To SEC
A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Friday it should not have to comply with a federal regulator's demand for documents sought for an insider-trading probe involving the staff director of a subcommittee and a lobbyist.

What could possibly go wrong when people who don't believe science get to randomly start deciding that some birth control cause abortions?- LOLGOP

Uh Oh. The GOP Is Going After The Federal Reserve
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has set a hearing for legislation to reform the Federal Reserve.

If life begins at fertilization, shouldn't conservatives want maternity leave to begin right then -- you know, just to be safe.- LOLGOP

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Newspaper runs headline referring to President Obama as N-word

Federal Judge Blogs Curse Word At SCOTUS
Writing on his personal blog, a federal judge appointed to the bench by President George H. W. Bush advised the Supreme Court to avoid “divisive cases” in the future that do more harm than good — such as the recent Hobby Lobby decision – before offering a more blunt suggestion: shut the f*ck up.

Hi, I'm an angry political person on Twitter & to show the moral validity of my arguments I shall now call you a 'tard.'- John Fugelsang

Unionizing College Football
Northwestern University urged the National Labor Relations Board Thursday to reverse a regional director's decision that classified the university's football players as university employees, therefore allowing them to unionize.

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."

It's in the Employee Handbook/ Bible! - LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

Ooops. Fracking Does Cause Earthquakes
A study published in July 4, 2014 issue of Science determined that the surge in earthquake activity in what had been tectonically calm Oklahoma is a direct result of hydrofracking and waste-water injection.

If you call corporations people and immigrants "illegal," you're going to get *all* the corporations to vote for you. - LOLGOP

WTO Rules In Favor Of Obama, Not China
China failed to overturn a U.S. law targeting unfair trade subsidies on Monday, when the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body said it did not have enough information to uphold China's appeal against an earlier WTO ruling.

China had claimed that the U.S. "Public Law 112-99", also known as the GTX legislation, which was signed by President Barack Obama in March 2012, broke world trade rules, but a WTO dispute panel ruled against it in March.

Fertilized eggs are people but child refugees are not.

Welcome to America.- LOLGOP

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Northern lights in Norway.

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order

Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order
The day after the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, a group of religious leaders sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he exempt them from a forthcoming executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people.

What if Hobby Lobby was run by Muslims imposing Sharia law on workers?- George Takei

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Us War On Afghan Opium: 7 Billion FAIL

Opium production and heroin addiction are soaring in Afghanistan...The $7 billion US program to eradicate poppy cultivation there over the past decade has been a flop.

In Iran there's a TV show, a sitcom — it's weird that they even have a sitcom. But it's a rip-off of "Modern Family." They use Iranian actors and make shot-for-shot re-creations with the same plots and jokes. But their "Modern Family" has no gay characters. The most modern family on Iranian TV up to this point is the Flintstones. - Jimmy Kimmel

REMINDER: Most of what conservatives know about birth control comes from women inventing excuses why they can't have sex.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

More than 10,000,000 Americans gained health insurance in 6 months as 1.4 million found jobs, if you're wondering why the GOP is so mad.- LOLGOP

Mississippi Will Soon Be Burning
Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) seems to formally be gearing up for his legal challenge over the runoff results of the race for U.S. Senate in the state.

According to TIME, McDaniel has sent a "Notice of Intent to Challenge" to the campaign of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), which defeated McDaniel in the runoff election for U.S. Senate in June.

And in 2014 the most powerful mens rights group of all is the f'ing Supreme Court so #STFU you undersacked misogynistic narcissists- Lizz Winstead

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Nothing says God Loves Me like being part of a mob out to lynch refugee kids fleeing sexploitation. - Gen JC Xtian patriot

Massachusetts Cares About Women
Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday he expects to have a bill on his desk by the end of the month that would strengthen security around abortion clinics in Massachusetts.

Obama Sets Sights On Wall Street Excess
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that “further reforms” of Wall Street are needed, arguing that there remains too much focus on making profits through big banks’ trading desks as opposed to investing in companies and the “real” economy.

“The world is my country. To do good is my religion.” – Thomas Paine, founding father.

Business/Tech News

The last time the US economy had 5 straight months with 200,000+ new jobs, we hadn't gotten any George W. Bush on it yet.- LOLGOP

China And South Korea Snub North Korea
With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Work's tough now that my boss decided that coffee breaks actually cause abortions.- LOLGOP

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Kirill Oreshkin, also known as "Russia's Spiderman."

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

CNN calls out Hobby Lobby for investing in birth control

CNN calls out Hobby Lobby for investing in birth control
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the “hypocrisy” of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control products that it refused to provide to female employees.

If you think we don't have enough guns but too much birth control, have I got a craft store for you.- LOLGOP

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The Iran War On Drugs Works?
There are stories some people might not expect to read about Iran – and its progressive drugs policy is one. As a number of countries begin to slowly reconsider their approach towards illicit drugs, following the avant-gardiste move of José Mujica’s Uruguay, the issue of drugs and treatment of drug abuse might be one where Iran could provide some meaningful contribution to the rest of the world.

New Rule - and this one goes out especially to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is a big fan, by the way - never misses the show, loves New Rules... This one's for you, Al: When you don't give people a seat at the table, they tend to want to blow up the table.- Bill Maher

The War On Refugee Children
Protesters shouting anti-immigration slogans blocked the arrival of three buses carrying undocumented Central American families to a U.S. Border Patrol station on Tuesday after they were flown to San Diego from Texas.

The last time Americans paid this much for gas during July was in 2008 when average prices reached a record-breaking $4.11 a gallon.- Sen. Bernie Sanders

Republican Shenanigans

Maybe we should stop calling it "birth control" and calling it "child support prevention". If it's for *men*, well, then it's untouchable.- Amanada Marcotte tweet

A Fighter Fighting The War On Women
Lisa Sendrow, the survivor of sexual assault who George Will recently claimed was using her rape to get a “coveted status,” said on Wednesday that his “grotesque” Washington Post column could trigger traumatic reactions in other survivors.

In a piece early last month, Will used Sendrow’s rape to make his point about “the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. ‘sexual assault.’”

"John Boehner is going to sue Obama. That's Plan A. If that doesn't work, Plan B, he's going to get the Uruguayan soccer player to bite him" - Bill Maher

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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing 97% of the world's scientists that their data about the earth and oceans is correct.- LOLGOP

"We have a profit-based healthcare system. If people are questioning why this is a bad thing, here's a good example of why. Because pharmaceutical companies, they're not interested in making you better. They're interested in making money." - Bill Maher

Rush To The Rescue!
Radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday suggested that women who needed birth control but couldn’t get it because it was banned by their religious employers could solve their problems if they stopped having sex.

Weird how uncontroversial health care was till we made sure that even people with vaginas should have basic access to it.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

Next on the list of things your employer gets to randomly decide causes abortions -- weekends!- LOLGOP

Goldman Sachs Gets A Hand Slap
Goldman Sachs will pay an $800,000 fine and has returned $1.67 million to investors in order to settle charges that it failed to protect clients from harmful trading in its dark pool, Sigma-X, announced the Financial Regulatory Authority.

Republicans have to stop saying that all those Central American kids we're detaining prove we have to secure the border. The border is secure. How do you think we caught all those damn kids?- Bill Maher

Forgive them, father, for they hath not incorporated. - LOLGOP

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Gangkhar Puensum, is the highest mountain in Bhutan and a strong candidate for the highest unclimbed mountain in the world with an elevation of 7,570 meters and a prominence of 2,995 meters. Its name means "3 mountain siblings".

Peace.