Remember when Bush called himself the "Great Uniter"?

U.S. and Arabs allies launch first strikes on fighters in Syria

 The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing scores of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against militants by joining a three-year-old civil war.

I guess those who said Obama was clueless and had no plans for ISIS will willingly eat their words.

FOX NEWS: WHITE HOUSE SECURITY SO LAX THAT A GUY NAMED HUSSEIN GETS IN THERE ALL THE TIME. - LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Feinstein: ISIS is beheading children
• US-led air strikes kill at least 70 Islamic State fighters 
• As US Strikes Syria, China Sees Parallels at Home
• U.S., Iran seek common ground against militants, but doubts persist
• Russia Condemns U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS and al-Qaeda; Assad Approves
• Algerian militants threaten to kill hostage unless French stop bombing ISIS
• Israel downs Syrian warplane it says violated its Golan airspace
• Israeli Army Says 2 Suspects Killed, Linked to Teen Abductions
• Accused White House intruder armed in July arrest

Perhaps if we all started referring to Climate Change as 'ISIS' the media might take the threat seriously.- John Fugelsang



I'm Glad The President Read This Memo
Airstrikes in Syria against the extremist Khorasan group were prompted by planning for an “imminent” terror attack on U.S. soil, the Pentagon said.

Cheney's proudest accomplishment: Making pre-emptive war something that's not even really debated anymore.- LOLGOP



Republican Shenanigans

• Boehner blasts America's unemployed as lazy 
• This Classic GOP Anti-Obamacare Meme Has Officially Imploded
• Scott Brown Splits With New Hampshire GOP On Personhood Restrictions
• California's Republican party is almost nonexistent. But, why?
• Christie Tells Republicans He Lost 85 Pounds, Times Says

AM radio taught me Obama's a weak leader & a powerful tyrant; in over his head & a socialist mastermind; a Muslim w/a bad Christian pastor..- John Fugelsang




How's That Lawsuit Boehner Filed Against The President Going?
The law firm that House Republicans hired to file their lawsuit against President Obama lasted less than a month.

The House Administration Committee announced on Friday that it had replaced the original firm, BakerHostetler, with a new lead attorney, William Burck.

Republican Land Rage
The Republican candidate for Minnesota House District 6A on the Iron Range faces a civil trial in Itasca County this week after sawing his neighbor’s garage in half.




Sorry, people, no time to talk about the huge rallies on climate change, the networks just found a woman with three breasts.- Top Conservative Cat

Rock The Voter News

• Obama’s biggest climate change victory might have nothing to do with carbon dioxide
• Michelle Obama to campaign in Wisconsin race

Pope Francis says people can't use religion to justify violence, though he forgot to mention it only applies to OTHER religions, not mine.- Top Conservative Cat




NY Nails Osama bin Laden's Son-In-Law
A seemingly unrepentant Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges.

House on recess for 5 weeks, which is good--I'd hate for legislation and governing to get in the way of complaining about Obama's golf game.- Top Conservative Cat

Business/Tech News

• West Texas Intermediate Crude  Rises as U.S. and Arab Allies Strike Islamic State
• WTO cuts world trade growth forecasts for 2014 and 2015
• Russian Industrial Giant Facing Bankruptcy?
• A sign of trouble for the market

So How's That Privatization Of Toll Roads Going? 
The debt-stricken operator of an Indiana Toll Road filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday with a plan to restructure some $6 billion in debt by selling its assets or reorganizing its business.

Wall Street Journal tells readers: “Climate change isn’t real, and even if it were, you’ve got a yacht for when the oceans rise.”- Top Conservative Cat



We're #1
An anonymous tipster living abroad will be receiving more than $30 million, in the largest whistleblower award ever doled out by U.S. securities regulators as part of a program that aims to incentivize insiders to report wrongdoing.

In Breaking Bad 2 a sick botany teacher grows weed to provide for his family & the town mellows out & everyone gets along.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Police deliver pie after Pizza Hut driver hurt
• Fugitive Woman Hides In Oven: Cops
• Idaho woman charged with felony over chewed seat
• Virginia preschool teacher accused of biting toddler is arrested
• More Americans than ever have never married: survey

Time To Deflate Photo

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall – Iceland.

Peace.

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.