Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Ten weeks out from Election Day, is a Republican wave coming?





Ten weeks out from Election Day, is a Republican wave coming?
 In politics, summer is usually a slow time. But with now 10 weeks to go until Election Day, what’s happened while most were at the beach is Democrats increasingly seeing a creeping red tide. 



White Privilege is actually my favorite show on the Fox Business Channel.- LOLGOP







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Politicians tell me that the Julian Assange leaks on Afghanistan could harm US soldiers.  As opposed to the actual war.- John Fugelsang







Uh Oh. More Executive Orders. Unleash The GOP Critics.
President Barack Obama, weeks after signing legislation to fix delays in veterans' healthcare, will unveil a series of executive actions on Tuesday aimed at improving access to mental health treatment for former service members.







The Permafrost is melting. Never in the history of civilization has the Permafrost ever ever melted. Hence, its name.- Will Durst



Meanwhile, Mother Earth Continues To Crack Open
It's the latest in a string of mystery holes that have opened up around the world this summer.

The new head scratcher surrounds a half-mile-long wedge which formed around Aug. 15 in northwest Mexico, according to Mysterious Universe. Even the locals are confused and a little worried.







Ted Cruz said Barack Obama should spend less time at the golf course. He said this at the Iowa State Fair. Stick a corn dog in his pie hole.- Will Durst



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I don't have an opinion about whether or not Rick Perry should be prosecuted. I'll leave that to the Republicans who are prosecuting him.- LOLGOP





Giopi, ( pronunciation: Gee-O-Pee )The Flag Waving Elephant That Hates Taxes
August recess seems to have infiltrated the National Republican Senatorial Committee, because the committee just released a 2014 midterm election-themed video game.  It stars an elephant named Giopi. The game is called "Mission Majority."



No one has to protest for Officer Darren Wilson to get the benefit of the doubt from the law. Michael Brown will never be presumed innocent.- LOLGOP







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Meanwhile, Fukishima Aware Inspector Wants To Shut Down California Nuclear Power Plant
 A federal nuclear inspector urged U.S. regulators to shut down a California nuclear power plant until tests showed its reactors could withstand shocks from nearby earthquake faults, according to the Associated Press and an environmental group.








Corporations are stateless, global entities that owe no allegiance to any country and should be able to buy our elections.- LOLGOP





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After the CIA admitted spying on them, the Senate was outraged. Us: not so much. Pretty sure it should be the other way around.- Will Durst






I avoid taxes, buy elections and want to pick women's birth control coverage. 
Am I technically a registered Republican or a corporation? - LOLGOP



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As you panic looking for a job, & your employment benefits were cut off, take comfort knowing congress cleared 350K to sue the president.- Lizz Winstead



Getting Our Pockets Picked Openly
Two top Republican lawmakers profited from a corporate tax-avoidance maneuver that the U.S. Treasury Department is seeking to curb.

While U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp have resisted calls for a crackdown on companies adopting overseas addresses to pay lower taxes, both have made money off one of the deals. 






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Monday, August 25, 2014

ISIS Intent on Hitting West, 'External Operations' Under Way








ISIS Intent on Hitting West, 'External Operations' Under Way, McCaul Believes
House Homeland Security Chair Rep. Michael McCaul said today he believes that ISIS, the jihadist army that has taken control of large part of Iraq and brutally murdered American journalist James Foley, has external operations under way to hit the West.



Those proposing American ground troops in Iraq must say what the GOP didn't say in 2003: 
They will need to be there for generations.- LOLGOP









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Finally protesters are standing up for the right of a police officer to kill an unarmed man, get a $300,000 reward and not be questioned. - LOLGOP









Soldier Shoots Herself On Base
 A female soldier shot and wounded herself at Fort Lee, Virginia, on Monday, sparking a lockdown of the U.S. Army installation, the base said on its Facebook page.








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It's important to remember that #Ferguson officer is innocent until proven guilty; as opposed to, say, the unarmed guy he shot 6 times.- John Fugelsang



I Watched This, So You Don't Have To: See Toon Below
Trend chasing community access TV hostess Sarah Palin heard about this here ALS Ice Bucket Challenge which is raising money for some disease or something or whatever –she doesn’t care– and so she decided to use it to fill time on her rogue TV network with her being all cutesy and ‘g’-droppin’ again.

Yes, this should be awful and it is.







BREAKING: The Republicans who wanted ground troops in Iraq in 2003, 2007 and 2010 want them there in 2014.- LOLGOP



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"Texas Governor Rick Perry has been charged with two felonies. Yesterday, after he got his mug shot, he went out for ice cream – or, as Mayor Rob Ford calls it, multi-tasking." –Jimmy Fallon








When Will Police Brutality Stop In L.A.? Or Anywhere?
Police officers in Los Angeles ignored pleas for help and complaints by a man who said he couldn’t breathe and later died in custody, reports show.
Two reports released in the past week indicate that officers didn’t take Jorge Azucena seriously and one sergeant told him: “You can talk, so you can breathe,” the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.








Weird. Your "religious freedom" is only violated when women get the same freedom as men or LGBT get people the same rights as human beings.- LOLGOP



Obama Statue Returned
Police have returned a life-size statue of President Barack Obama that went missing from its owner's northeastern Pennsylvania porch and was found a few days later reclining on a ...







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Welcome to Walmart!
Police authorities in Greenville, South Carolina are reviewing video of an arrest at a Walmart store Saturday afternoon where an officer can be seen repeatedly punching a suspect in the head as horrified shoppers begged him to stop.









Meanwhile, The Atlantic Coast Is Bubbling Methane
In an unexpected discovery, hundreds of gas plumes bubbling up from the seafloor were spotted during a sweeping survey of the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

Even though ocean explorers have yet to test the gas, the bubbles are almost certainly methane, researchers report today (Aug. 24) in the journal Nature Geoscience.





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Disney's stock just reached a new high this week of $90.37 a share. That's when you know tickets to Disney World are too expensive — when it's actually cheaper to own part of the company.- Jimmy Fallon







Pipeline Activists
Demanding a halt to pipeline corporation Enbridge's continued expansion of Line 6B—which ruptured in 2010, spilling over one million gallons of tar sands oil and diluting chemicals into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River—two activists Monday morning locked themselves to a pipeline construction truck leaving Precision Pipeline storage yard in Oxford, Michigan. The action caused a back-up of trucks leaving the facility.




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Architecture for resistance design by Dionisio González. He designs homes for hurricane prone areas.

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Russell Brand: Racism peddled on Fox News is ‘so outrageous it’s almost art!’






Russell Brand: Racism peddled on Fox News is ‘so outrageous it’s almost art!’
On the latest episode of The Trews, Russell Brand continued to discuss Fox News’s racist coverage of the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.


The aim of the conservative media is to make conservative politicians look respectable in comparison.- LOLGOP








Would the officers who beat Rodney King have a crowdfunding page today?- LOLGOP



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Putin Plays Trojan Horse Card
Ukraine accused Moscow of invading after Russia unilaterally sent the first part of its mammoth aid convoy into eastern Ukraine on Friday, warning against any attacks on the trucks.







I only take time from my efforts fighting ISIS, saving orphans in Syria and curing Ebola to tweet my concerns about Obama playing golf.- LOLGOP



The War Drum Is Beating
The Islamic State poses a greater danger than a conventional “terrorist group” and is pursuing a vision that could radically alter the face of the Middle East, US defense leaders said Thursday.







REMINDER: No black president has ever taken more vacation than Obama. Ever. - LOLGOP



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The GOP. Spends 6 years trying to get Obama out of the White House then complains whenever he's out of the White House.- LOLGOP






Okie Senator Warns Of ISIS Blowing Up U.S. City
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said ISIS members are “rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city and people just can’t believe that’s happening.”
“Yes, it’s really significant what’s happening,” he added during a local television interview on Wednesday.



So is it only in the movies that cops shoot people in the hand or the leg?- Lizz Winstead







China Challenging U.S.
The Pentagon on Friday accused a Chinese fighter jet of conducting a "dangerous intercept" of a U.S. Navy aircraft off the coast of China in international airspace.


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"Disneyworld has become a popular location for Republican fundraisers. A favorite activity is to ride through It's a Small World and deport most of the dolls." –Conan O'Brien



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"Rick Perry, what a good-looking guy he is. As a requirement for being a Republican candidate for president, you have to look good in a mug shot. I hope this doesn't ruin his chances of being our next dumb president from Texas." –David Letterman




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You have to give Republican congressmen credit for not even taking a vacation from their vacations to make Obama vacation jokes.- LOLGOP


Berlin Suing Swiss
 Berlin is suing one of Switzerland's largest banks in its bid to recuperate hundreds of millions of euros that went missing during the reunification of East and West Germany, the bank said Thursday.






Kids who used to beat me up in school are now all grown up & on Facebook complaining how their kids get bullied at school.- John Fugelsang



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Bernese Alps,Interlaken, Switzerland.

I hope you have a beautiful and peaceful weekend.