New York climate march draws hundreds of thousands

New York climate march draws hundreds of thousands
 An international day of action on climate change brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets of New York City on Sunday, easily exceeding organizers' hopes for the largest protest on the issue in history.



If you actually cared about secure borders, you'd probably stop encouraging the oceans to invade us.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• More US troops in Ebola-hit Liberia: airport source
• Three Afghan soldiers missing from Massachusetts training exercise
• Minds focused by IS, Saudis and Iranians think about making up
• Chinese warships in first call at an Iran port
• Russia's Putin looking at cooperation to fight Islamic State: agency
• Iraq loses contact with soldiers near Fallujah

If Climate Change were as bad as you say, the GOP would have voted to repeal it 50 times by now.-Top Conservative Cat

Imagine If Vietnam Veterans Had This When They Returned From War
Colorado businesses joined together over the weekend to distribute free medical marijuana and pot-infused products to military veterans, reports CBS Denver.




During President Obama’s visit to an elementary school yesterday, one little boy actually asked him if he ever fought in the Civil War. Obama told the boy he did not, but he re-enacts it with Congress all the time.- Jimmy Fallon

Uninvited White House Guest
The Texas man accused of breaking into the White House while armed with a knife is a U.S. military veteran who was decorated for his service in the Iraq war, the U.S. Army said on Sunday.



The official GOP position on domestic violence is that the Founding Fathers didn’t care, so it would be un-American for us to.-Top Conservative Cat

Republican Shenanigans

• Rep. Peter King on White House security breach: 'Absolutely inexcusable'
• Rush Limbaugh’s black sidekick, Snerdley: Segregation was the ‘good old days’
• Rand Paul opens Bay Area office to reach Silicon Valley
• Duncan slams Jindal's Common Core lawsuit: 'Take politics out, take presidential ambitions out, do the right thing for children'

The worst part of hating ppl on food stamps is that if you ever hit hard times the only ppl who care abt you are those damn liberals.- John Fugelsang

FOX NEWS: The Demons Are Coming!
Fox News contributor Father Jonathan Morris on Sunday called for officials in Oklahoma City to shut down a Satanic black mass because he said worshippers were "inciting violence" by mocking Christians.




"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

Rock The Voter News

• Second White House incident: Another intruder and tighter security
• When Dems Run An Ad Critical Of Gun Nuts, It's 'Vile'?

A recent report says the majority of Americans cannot name the three branches of government — Judicial, Executive, and Legislative. To make it easier, the government is renaming those branches Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney.- Conan O'Brien

Washing Off The Oil
John D. Rockefeller built a vast fortune on oil. Now his heirs are abandoning fossil fuels.

The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is planning to announce on Monday that its $860 million philanthropic organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the divestment movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses.

We just had the hottest summer on record, which is why the House GOP is united in its effort to ban records.- LOLGOP



Baseball Fanatic Says Football Bad
Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday asserted that recent domestic violence scandals in the National Football League (NFL) would not force change as long as the business model was "consciously" merchandising violence.

A man was arrested yesterday after the garbage bag he was carrying split open and a human head fell out. If he’s convicted, the man could receive a two-week suspension from the NFL.- Seth Myers



Business/Tech News

• Oklahoma City oil producer unveils new formation
• Airbus sales chief cautious on jet output increases
• Blackstone to pull out of Russia
• Russian Stocks Drop Fourth Day as Alrosa to Sistema Retreat
• Tesco suspends executives after overstating profits by £250 mn

If climate change were real, don’t you think the Koch brothers would do stop it so their money doesn’t get too hot?-Top Conservative Cat

Protesters On Wall Street 
Hundreds of protesters plan to risk arrest on Monday during an unsanctioned blockade in New York City's financial district to call attention to what organizers say is Wall Street's contribution to climate change.



The Islamic State is releasing its own "Grand Theft Auto" style of video game. In their version, the worse crime you can commit is letting a woman drive the car.- Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• Ex-NFL Player Who Was Abused With A 'Bullwhip' Tells CNN Why He Also Beats His Child
• KTVA Reporter Quits On-air, Reveals Herself As Owner Of Alaska Cannabis Club: 'F*ck It. I Quit.'
• Man breaks into Vermont police station
• Man who ate napkins to conceal insider trading pleads guilty

Time To Deflate Photo

Aquacycles.

Peace.

Are you ready for some football?

Our Football Heroes

America loves its football and I am no different.

The recent spate of crimes in the NFL shouldn't surprise anyone, nor should the distasteful protection of their millions of dollars of investment in their players.

What surprises me is the defense of these players who are caught red-handed. Ray Rice clocking his wife in the elevator is the perfect example. The police saw the video and arrested him in February 2014, the NFL did nothing at the time.

Now eight months later, only because TMZ pulled down the NFL’s pants by releasing the full police video, did the NFL respond and it was in a mealy mouth fashion. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell lied and said the NFL did not have that tape of Rice cold cocking his wife. The police say otherwise. So Goodell is caught lying red-handed. Why hasn't he been fired or at least resign?

Now I don’t know about you but it seems to me that the NFL is in as much denial as Ray Rice’s wife. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, Janay Rice is defending her husband and feels it is a family matter. She is a typical abused woman, thinking she can fix everything.

It turns out there have been 732 arrests of NFL players since 2000-2014. That’s almost half of the current roster of all NFL players.

Now the NFL is embracing groups opposed to violence. Well, duh.

It makes me think of that old joke:

The first testicular guard was used in cricket in 1874. 

And the first  helmet was used  in cricket in 1974.

So, it took 100 years for men to realize that their brains were also worth protecting.

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Let’s switch to college football, boys and girls.

How’s the Heisman Trophy  winner, Jameis Winston, doing?

Jameis Winston was suspended from the Clemson game yesterday for yelling out a vulgar phrase in the student union. Fellow students who saw Winston make the remark Twittered about it and made it public immediately.  I don’t want to repeat the phrase but click here for a funny TMZ video about it.

This comes amidst the several run ins with the law Jameis Winston has had since 2012.

Florida State University’s football coach Jimbo Fisher said of Winston's actions: 'He was having fun. I do not justify it', and suspended him for the first half of the Clemson game on Wednesday.

The interim president of FSU, Garnett Stokes, over ruled the coach and took Winston out of the game completely, with the Athletic Director backing her up on Friday.

So, the top college quarterback in the nation was kicked out of a game for spouting an obscene phrase in public, on top of four other incidents.

I love when my team wins. But Winston’s suspension was the correct thing to do. He’s a 20 year old that hasn't matured as fast as his football skills.

He also needs a full time chaperon to keep him out of trouble, apparently.

I will cheer on my Seminoles tonight and hope they pull off a win with their new leader, Sean Maguire.  All the other players didn't do anything wrong and need their fan’s support.

The first televised game by ABC of FSU football was over 40 years ago. ABC gave the university about $200K. One of the first things purchased were summer uniforms for the band. FSU football has doubled the size and stature of the university since then.

It’s all about the ball$. 

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UPDATE:
Florida State beat Clemson 23-17.  The credit goes to Maguire and the rest of the team. They pulled off a difficult game with a lot of luck.

Even though Winston was suspended from playing in the game, he was heavily involved on the sidelines with his teammates, and very demonstrative.

The ABC announcers gave Winston more airtime than anyone else, it seemed. But they had plenty to talk about.

This article says it all: Jameis Winston still plays starring role as supporting cast bails out Florida State

I think if Winston messes up again, he will be sacked by FSU.

As if FSU didn't have enough to handle with Winston, they are in the middle of choosing a new president. Penn State hired away our last president, Eric Barron.

Three candidates have impeccable academic records. The fourth candidate is a Republican state politician with no academic achievements other than raising money for the FSU football team, and oh, he has ties to the Koch Bros.

Bill Clinton tells Jon Stewart: ‘We can’t win a ground war in Iraq — we proved that’

Bill Clinton tells Jon Stewart: ‘We can’t win a ground war in Iraq — we proved that’

rmer President Bill Clinton endorsed the U.S.’ current approach to targeting the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday in an interview with Daily Show host Jon Stewart.

BREAKING: Bill Clinton tells Daily Show he will run for President in 2016 “though technically I think you’ll have to vote for my wife.”- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• IS jihadists capture 60 Kurdish villages in Syria: NGO
• France Joins U.S. in Launching Airstrikes on ISIS Targets
• Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania form joint military unit
• CIA halts spying in Europe
• Road-raging bicyclist shoots Florida cab driver in neck in gas station dispute

Paper Terrorism By The Far Right
Earlier this year, a self-professed member of a nationwide extremist movement was charged with threatening and harassing a judge and 27 local officials in three South Jersey counties — and he's far from alone....sovereign citizens seeking retribution from court officials will often file such a lien on a judge's home, forcing them to potentially spend thousands of dollars to clear their title.



I don't mind putting American boots on the ground in Syria & Iraq, I'd just prefer American troops to not be wearing them.- John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• Republicans Begin Attack Ads Against Bernie Sanders --Who's Not A Candidate Yet
• U.S. House Speaker Boehner bemoans notion 'I don't have to work'
• Cliven Bundy Lets Cow Wander Onto Road, Where A Woman Hits It. He Blames Government
• Justice Department Has Yet to Find a Link Between Chris Christie and Bridge Closure
• Fox’s Steve Doocy battles Geraldo over whether undocumented New Yorkers can vote
• Rachel Maddow rips ‘repellent’ Congress for giving itself two more months off

FOX NEWS: SCOTLAND UNABLE TO MOVE OUT OF PARENTS THANKS TO OBAMA ECONOMY. - LOLGOP

Teletubbie Televangelist Lashes Out At Jews
TV preacher Pat Robertson lashed out at a “Jewish radical” on Thursday who he said was responsible for God being removed from the Air Force oath.

If the United States had 87% turnout for an election, Floridans will still be in line to vote from 2012.- LOLGOP




Rock The Voter News

• Obama not due to meet Iran's Rouhani but open to it: U.S. official
• Hillary Clinton Blames Republicans for 'Egregious' Policies Toward Women 
• Senate campaign 2014: Brought to you by 'dark money' like never before

On this day in 1831 Darwin landed in the Galapagos, where he was met by Satan and given a plan to trick biology students into going to Hell.-  Top Conservative Cat

The Real Welfare Queens
One vote on war and Congress is apparently all tuckered out.

House leaders announced Thursday that they were cutting their already abbreviated fall session short and sending lawmakers back home – and onto the campaign trail – more than a week early.

So if we start a rumor that ISIS is hiding in the US Public School system will Congress find a few billion?- John Fugelsang

Scotland Inspires U.S. Secessionists
 The failed Scottish vote to pull out from the United Kingdom stirred secessionist hopes for some in the United States, where almost a quarter of people are open to their states leaving the union, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Business/Tech News

• S&P 500 Falls From Record, Alibaba Rallies; Oil Drops 
• Russia says Exxon still drilling in its Arctic
• Alibaba worth more than $200B... just what is it?
• Senate Democrats propose exit tax for inverting companies

The NFL doesn't deserve non-profit status. That's for billionaires to avoid accountability and plunder at the expense of workers!- LOLGOP

GOP Congress Still Ignoring The Border
Congress' must-pass budget bill ignores the Obama administration's request to accelerate spending on immigration courts to handle the flood of unaccompanied minors at the border — even as it boosts spending flexibility for Border Patrol agents and detention centers.




In 10 years I'm opening up a tattoo removal parlor called 'Mom, What's That Thing On Your Lower Back?'- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Drunken Tennessee man vows to join Islamic State after arrest -police
• Armpit hair fire causes crash that injures teens
• 'Miracle' panda triplets open their eyes in Chinese zoo
• North Carolina cracks down on Venus flytrap poachers
• Ig Nobel winner: Using pork to stop nosebleeds

Time To Deflate Photo

Trolltunga, Hardangerfjord, Norway.

Peace.