Thursday, September 25, 2014

Republicans' favorite label for Hillary Clinton 2016: 'Obama's Third Term'





Republicans' favorite label for Hillary Clinton 2016: 'Obama's Third Term'
Republicans who want to taint Hillary Clinton are going to lengths to link the former secretary of state with President Barack Obama and his sagging poll numbers.



Now that Eric Holder has resigned, Republicans will have nothing more to complain about and we'll enter a new era of cooperation in DC.- Top Conservative Cat









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The Dick & Daughter Vaudeville Act
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox on Wednesday to discuss the Islamic State, focusing their statements on criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the jihadists whose brutal conquests in Iraq and Syria have prompted the U.S. and allies to launch airstrikes against.






NOW YOU SAY OBAMA WAS DRINKING TEA NOT A LATTE? NEXT YOU'LL SAY THAT SALUTING THE TROOPS IS SOMETHING REAGAN MADE UP.- LOLGOP








Fox Continues The War On Women
Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri flew through the glass ceiling when she became the first female pilot in the United Arab Emirates' Air Force. On Monday night, she was reportedly a team leader in the airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. But a segment celebrating her feat on Fox News Channel's "The Five" quickly devolved into sexist jokes.




Fox News hates Eric Holder because he was "divisive," which is like ESPN hating you because you "play sports." - LOLGOP









This guy hopped the fence, ran across the White House lawn, and almost got inside the White House. And the Republicans said, "Well, let's nominate this guy."- David Letterman



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Anyone claiming to be in 'God's Army' is actually just in one of God's unauthorized fan clubs.- John Fugelsang




Pennsylvania May Lose GOP Governor? Good.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is trailing his Democratic challenger by 20 percentage points in a poll released on Thursday, a slight improvement in the Republican's showing since August.










Many of the leaders and assistants to the leaders from around the world were in attendance at the U.N. Climate Summit. They say this was arguably the most high-profile, significant meeting that will in no way change anything whatsoever.- Jimmy Kimmel





Ferguson Police Finally Apologize For Leaving Michael's Brown's Body On The Street For Four Hours
Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson apologized Thursday to the parents of Michael Brown, as well as to any peaceful protesters who feel he didn't do "enough to protect their constitutional right to protest."
Specifically, he apologized that it took investigating officers four hours to remove Brown's body from the street after Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot him last month.




"I am sorry it took so long to remove your dead son from the street" is not an apology that should have to wait a month and a half.- Will McAvoy


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In an interview, Bill Clinton hinted that his daughter Chelsea’s baby is due in early October. Though it got weird when reporters asked if it's a boy or a girl, and Hillary said, "I haven't decided yet."- Jimmy Fallon








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Amazing: Pennsylvania AG Says Woman Caused Her Own Rape
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office this week blamed a former prison employee for her own rape in 2013.

Earlier this year, 37-year-old inmate Omar Best was convicted of raping a 24-year-old typist at Rockview prison in Bellefonte. Surveillance video showed that the victim was choked unconscious and sexually assaulted for 27 minutes.









The GOP doesn't need a few ads that say Republicans are human. It needs to not have a 24/7 channel that makes it seem like they're not.- LOLGOP




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Children Refugees AWOL
Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the U.S. border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately.




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The combined net worth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans rose to $1.37 trill in 2010. So give em a tax cut already.- John Fugelsang




Wind Power Proposal
A proposal to export twice as much Wyoming wind power to Los Angeles as the amount of electricity generated by the Hoover Dam includes an engineering feat even more massive than that famous structure: Four chambers, each approaching the size of the Empire State Building, would be carved from an underground salt deposit to hold huge volumes of compressed air.








The ancient Egyptians stopped worshiping Cats as Gods over 2500 years ago; nobody told the cats.- John Fugelsang








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A side street in Spello, Italy.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Republican Politician Is President Of Florida State University




John Thrasher has held a lot of positions in his life: speaker of the Florida House, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, lobbyist, chairman of Rick Scott's reelection campaign, and current state senator.


Why does this feel like the eventual privatization of a public university?





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Thank god we're bombing #Khorasan cuz they're SO much worse than Isis! Even tho 2 days ago I thought Khorosan was a restaurant in Brentwood. - Bill Maher







Conservatives Salute Obama With The Middle Finger
President Obama disembarked from Marine One on Tuesday and saluted two Marines with a paper cup in his hand. For conservative talking heads the salute, which was captured in a video that the White House posted to its Instagram account, was proof positive of Obama's disregard for the military, ignorance of protocol, and general disrespect for the uniform.





This Is The Correct Way A President Salutes!




The House GOP won't come back to vote on war but Darrell Issa has already held 3 hearings about the president's latte salute.- LOLGOP









I live in a country where sophistication is measured by how many words it takes to pronounce one's coffee beverage.- John Fugelsang





Email
Subject: No More WAR!

Lisa,
War is wrong. Obama is basically funneling money into the military industrial complex as every president has for decades.
Bombing innocent people only makes enemies.
We should not be the world's policeman. I know your favor helping Iraq but how can you feel that way?
I love your site anyway. :)
Andrew


Thanks for writing, Andrew. I hear you. I hate war too.

As far as the military industrial complex, I feel we spend and waste too much on defense, and we need to reform our campaign finance laws limiting lobbyists access, to even begin to address that problem. 

I see it this way concerning ISIS. It is a dangerous world out there and we really do have mortal enemies. If we weren't the world's policeman, who would fill the vacuum? Putin? China?

Obama got us out of Iraq. He stayed out of the Syrian War for over three years.

I believe ISIS would love to strike Europe and the U.S. and have no doubt they are actively trying to do so.

The U.S. getting involved with Arab allies will probably help the situation greatly, and probably more lives will be saved from ISIS than lost by helping to stop ISIS. 

It is quite an extraordinary moment in history to have this level of cooperation from the neighboring Arab countries, but they know the danger ISIS presents.

ISIS is pure barbarianism, as the videos they release have shown.

If we completely pulled out of Iraq, what would happen?

Would Iran move in and snatch Iraq as Putin snatched Crimea and is actively trying to snatch eastern Ukraine? Or would Saudi Arabia, one of the largest buyers of U.S. weaponry, snatch Iraq?
Would Turkey grab Northern Iraq?


What I am trying to say is we created the problem by putting Bush the lesser in office who made this mess.


I feel we have an obligation to help.

The problem is old time religion, and in this case Sunni versus Shia since the beginning of Islam. Sunnis make up about 85% of the Muslim religion.

It reminds me of when the Church of England was formed, they broke away from the Catholic church and all these other Christian sects were formed, before during and after.

Osama bin Laden was an extremist Sunni. Saddam was a bit more moderate Sunni.

In the U.S. our Sunni extremist equivalent is the dumbing down of the masses
through televangelism, you know, the crowd who hates government and thinks there is a war on Christmas. Thank God they're not as organized or well funded as ISIS. But then again FOX News sure echoes their cause.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has compiled a list of domestic terrorism since Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

Now they are in our government a.k.a. The Republican Party/Tea Party or in my view, America's Taliban.

Obama is not only fighting ISIS, who are Sunnis, but he is fighting the Christian right on a daily basis with members of Congress , and on the airwaves and cable systems throughout the country.

If the Christian right got control of the presidency, the Middle East would be their Armageddon and Holocaust wrapped into one. Our last president said Jesus was his favorite political philosopher, and look at the mess he made, much worse than what Saddam's WMDs, had done.

I can envision President Ted Cruz rallying the troops in his crusader uniform.

The only American boots on the ground I want to see are on Arab feet, to paraphrase John Fugelsang.  And I think Arabs feel the same.

And to think it took a Kenyan Muslim to unite the Middle East against ISIS.


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There were some major security issues at the White House over the weekend. On Friday, a guy got to the front doors of the White House, and on Saturday another guy jumped over the White House fence. Officials are wondering why it's so easy to get in, while Obama is wondering why it's so hard to get out. -Jimmy Fallon









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The Future Of Florida: Scott or Crist?
Months of mud-slinging by Florida Governor Rick Scott and former Governor Charlie Crist have made voters distrust both men in a hot race that is too close to call, according to a new poll released Wednesday.









Sign outside NH school: "God is allowed here." I'm sure the almighty is relieved.- John Fugelsang








How Not To Appeal To Women: Republican Ad Compares Obama To Abusive Boyfriend
The conservative group Americans for Shared Prosperity released an advertisement in which it compared President Barack Obama to a shiftless, abusive boyfriend.




The militant group ISIS today released a new audio clip mocking American politicians, including John Kerry and John McCain. And Americans are really upset because they released it directly into everybody’s iTunes account.- Seth Myers








Obama: We welcome scrutiny in the United States. In fact, there's a whole news channel devoted to me playing golf.- LOLGOP



Ferguson Unrest
A memorial to Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., burned, and a community still gripped by mistrust again burst into violence.




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Mendocino Mercenaries?
They wear camouflaged uniforms, bearing military-style insignia. They ride helicopters into the redwood forests of Mendocino County, Calif., on the state's north coast, equipped with firearms, where they cut down illegal marijuana grows. But they aren't the army. They aren't even the police. They are Lear Asset Management, a private security firm that is attracting a lot of attention for what the work it's doing -- and even perhaps some work it hasn't done




The guys who think someone else using birth control hurts their religious freedom want to make sure that everyone condemns Islam as violent.- LOLGOP





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The situation in the NFL is awful. It's gotten so bad that even the Redskins want to change the commissioner's name.- David Letterman








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Of COURSE American workers get sick leave, foreign allies!   If you're sick, you leave.- John Fugelsang







So How's Nuclear Power Going In Japan?
"Don't forget Fukushima" was the message Tuesday morning as roughly 16,000 people gathered in downtown Tokyo to protest the restart of Japan's nuclear power plants.

The demonstration, held outside the official residence of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, came a day after the government outlined plans to restart two reactors at the Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan at a five-day meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Jiji News reports.




A REALIZATION YOU SHOULD HAVE NOW, NOT WHEN MIAMI'S GONE: Maybe we shouldn't have funded a party that completely rejected climate science.- LOLGOP









Ashton Kutcher announces remake of 'Citizen Kane' called 'Dude, Where's My Sled?'- John Fugelsang



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Port Blanc at sunset. Quiberon, Brittany France.

Peace.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Remember when Bush called himself the "Great Uniter"?







 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









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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



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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






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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.



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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









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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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Seljalandsfoss Waterfall – Iceland.

Peace.