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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

House GOP wants to spend $3.3M on Benghazi probe

House GOP wants to spend $3.3M on Benghazi probe
House Republicans have called for spending up to $3.3 million this year on the special select committee tasked with investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The GOP's latest Benghazi hearing will cost $3 million, which is pretty cheap for a daily Fox News show.- LOLGOP

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SCOTUS' Pandora's Box Is Exploding
If corporations are people with religious rights, why aren’t Guantanamo Bay detainees?

That’s the central premise of a new lawsuit, filed on behalf of two Guantanamo Bay detainees last week.

“If, under our law, Hobby Lobby is a ‘person’ with a right to religious freedom, surely Gitmo detainees are people too,” Cori Crider, the detainees’ lawyer said in a statement.

Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus. - Sarah Silverman

War On Obama Continues...
Sarah Palin on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the impeachment of President Obama, writing in a Breitbart op-ed that the influx of young illegal immigrants over the southern border "is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, 'no mas.' "

I STAND WITH SARAH PALIN. IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH OBAMA AND I BELIEVE IMPEACH IS FRENCH FOR DEPORT. - LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

The Daily Caller being duped by the Cuban government is actually the most Latino outreach Republicans have done in years.- LOLGOP

Cruzin' To Mississippi
Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped into Mississippi’s political drama, a sign that the deepening dispute over the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff is seeping into the national GOP.

Christie snubbed Sandy Hook families, defunded Planned Parenthood & robbed pensions or, as the GOP calls it, he's moving to the center.- LOLGOP

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Obama to meet Texas governor, a critic in US border crisis

My favorite part of the bible is the part where Jesus sends the scared Guatemalan and Honduran children back to Mexico.- Nick Baumann

Obama Wants To Stamp Refugee Children: "ReturnTo Sender"
Mr. Obama is under intense pressure from Republicans to show that he is cracking down on the new wave of illegal immigration. The White House has said it intends to ask Congress for more money to more efficiently return the children to their countries. The administration has also said it wants Congress to give officials more authorities to process the children faster.

If you're against sex ed, birth control coverage & health care for all, you're not against abortion. You're against women not being pregnant. - LOLGOP

Meanwhile, Back In Nicargua
A Nicaraguan committee approved a proposed route on Monday for a $40 billion shipping channel across the Central American country that would compete with the Panama Canal.

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Migrant Worker Abuse In Maine
Two Maine companies and a labor recruiter are being sued for allegedly mistreating Haitian migrant workers during the state's wild blueberry harvest in 2008.

A simple way to end all of our deficit worries: Stop paying the rich to be rich.- LOLGOP

We need to face the fact that the 2008 GOP nominee for vice president may not be qualified to serve on The View.- LOLGOP

Pink Floyd announced their first new album in 20 years now that Obama has legalized pot everywhere.- Top Conservative Cat

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Machu Picchu, Peru.

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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

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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.

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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."

Peace.