Sean Hannity And Dana Perino: "Sponsored By" Fracking Companies

Sean Hannity And Dana Perino: "Sponsored By" Fracking Companies
Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Dana Perino are giving speeches "sponsored by" major fracking companies while pushing for fracking on Fox.

The conservative commentators spoke at the Shale Insight 2014 conference on September 24-25. The two-day event was organized by the Marcellus Shale Coalition  (MSC)...




FYI: The entire GOP agenda is to make climate change worse and get you to worry about salutes and suits while they pillage our safety net.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• New recruits join Islamic State in Syria's Aleppo: monitor
• Islamic State tightens grip on Syrian border town, shells hit Turkey
• More Islamist suspects arrested after top preacher held
• Taliban storm Afghan district southwest of capital, 100 killed
• Taliban behead 12 people in remote Afghan province
• Iran blames 'errors' of outsiders for rise of Islamic State
• For Australian Muslims, security crackdown is code for racial profiling
• FBI director: Strikes on al-Qaida cell Khorasan did not wipe out threat to U.S.
• Liberian prof in U.S. tells his country Ebola caused by DOD

"President Obama is facing criticism over an incident yesterday where he was holding a cup of coffee in his hand, and then used that same hand to salute a Marine. Though with all that's going on in the world, I'm surprised he didn't salute with a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a cigarette in the other." –Jimmy Fallon

Just a few months ago, polls showed Americans were sick of war. They’d had enough. They were anxious to stay out of the Middle East. Then they saw two beheadings, and overnight, they were like, “Oh, war, we can’t stay mad at you.”- Bill Maher




Send Dr. Dennis Rodman To The Rescue!
Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is suffering from "discomfort", state media has said in the first official acknowledgement of ill health after a prolonged period out of the public eye.

GOP: How To Win The Hearts And Minds Of Women
“TELL the Misses not to wait up because the after dinner whiskey & cigars will be smooth and the issues to discuss are many,” read the invite to an all-male fundraiser in March for Steve Southerland, the Republican seeking re-election in Florida’s second congressional district. “Good men sitting around discussing & solving political & social problems over fine food & drink date back to the 12th Century with King Arthur’s Round Table.”




Republican Shenanigans

• Dick Cheney 'stunned' Obama mentioned Ferguson in UN speech
• Fox News host apologizes to wife, not fighter pilot, for ‘boobs on the ground’ quip
• Fox’s Gretchen Carlson rips CO school protests: ‘What’s up with these punks?’
• Fox hosts blame drunk girls for frat rapes: ‘These guys, what are they supposed to do?’
• Fox News Host: Eric Holder Ran DOJ 'Like The Black Panthers Would'
• O’Reilly Blames Obama's Passive World View For Throwing Planet Into Chaos

Ted Cruz: My dad was a refugee. But unlike the kids at the border, he was smart enough to be born a country the U.S. accepted refugees from. - LOLGOP

Rick Perry Versus Wendy Davis
There are new questions about how Gov. Rick Perry spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars after giving it to companies through the Texas Enterprise Fund...The audit, completed under legislation authored by State Sen. Wendy Davis, reveals some of the companies that received money from the Texas Enterprise Fund did not complete that application or produce proof they had created any new jobs.







"House Speaker John Boehner is facing criticism over a recent speech where he suggested that unemployed people are lazy. Boehner would clarify his statements, but he was on his second two-week break of the month." –Jimmy Fallon




GOP Can't Keep It Classy Bidding Adieu To Eric Holder 
It's fair to say the GOP hasn't always seen eye to eye with Attorney General Eric Holder.

After the announcement today that Holder will resign from his position, some Republican lawmakers took to Twitter to offer their "heartfelt" farewells.

Eric Holder resigns; or as Rush Limbaugh puts it, 'black guy doesn't want to work.'- Top Conservative Cat

Republican Infighting Is A Good Thing
A top officer of the Broward Republican Party is taking on the co-founder of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale, publicly voicing sentiments that until now have been quietly muttered by many Republican Party insiders.




If you're praying for another Bush to run, maybe you should take a few elections off.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• President's Schedule - September 26, 2014
• First Lady Michelle Obama To Make Her 'Chew' Debut
• Factbox: Obamacare could see second wave of Medicaid expansion

"The White House posted a video that got people upset. The president saluted two Marines with a cup of coffee in his hand. It's not the first time Obama's done something like this. Remember that time he said The Pledge of Allegiance while holding a Hot Pocket? Or when he visited an aircraft carrier with a $5 footlong? The man never learns." –Jimmy Kimmel

Now that it’s been confirmed that the entire Palin family did, in fact, participate in a drunken brawl, Sarah Palin must admit that President Obama’s “Mom jeans” aren’t half as embarrassing as her “mom genes.”- Bill Maher

I Really Like This Pope
Pope Francis on Thursday sacked a Paraguayan bishop accused of protecting and promoting a priest described by his former church superiors in the United States as "a serious threat to young people."

The comments section of the Daily Beast could be the single greatest argument against a theory of human evolution.- John Fugelsang

NFL Caught Lying
A new report from the AP rocked the NFL Thursday when a source said the Ray Rice domestic abuse video was sent to Jeff Miller, the head of security of the NFL which contradicts their claims of never receiving the video.

"Today an Indian spacecraft reached the orbit of Mars. Not only did India succeed on their first attempt, they did it on a very modest budget — $74 million for the mission. Which happens to be, truly, $26 million less than it cost to make the movie 'Gravity.'" –Jimmy Kimmel



Business/Tech News

• Oil futures gain, but Brent still on pace for weekly loss 
• Syria, Iraq oil controlled by Islamic State group
• U.S. GDP Grew 4.6% In Second Quarter 2014, Up From Earlier Estimates 
• Trouble in Hong Kong? Beijing summons tycoons
• Dow tumbles 264 points in biggest stock sell-off in two months 
• The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes

"Congratulations to India. They were able to keep the mission's costs down by outsourcing all of the work to themselves. And who knows, if it keeps going, in a few years, maybe we'll have the first call center on Mars." –Jimmy Kimmel



Foreign Exchange Traders Love Obama
President Obama’s handling of the economy may be reviled by his political opponents, but he is receiving support from a surprising quarter: foreign exchange traders.

But, you know what? Climate change doesn’t stand a chance because you can’t capture rising sea levels on a six-second Vine video. What we need to do is to get a polar bear to punch someone in an elevator.- Bill Maher

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Odd News

• Basketball body says headwear ban not religious as Qatar quit
• Calf with '7' on its head named for Steelers' Ben
• Fish and Wildlife Department Using 'Salmon Cannon' to Move Fish Upriver
• This Woman Drove 12 Blocks With A Cop On Her Car
• Man Who Raised $55K For Potato Salad To Throw Epic Party

Time To Deflate Photo

Somewhere in Fiji.

Best wishes for a peaceful weekend.

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

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• French, U.S. planes strike Islamic State; Britain to join coalition
• Islamic State: Iran's Rouhani warns of 'blades in the hand of madmen'
• Hamas, Fatah reach partial Gaza deal in Egypt
• American Matthew Miller starts North Korean prison sentence; photo released
• Mexican cartels steal billions from oil industry

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



Republican Shenanigans

• Jerry Brown says 'virtually no Republican' in Washington accepts climate change science
• Chris Christie accuses 'Bridgegate' panel of playing politics
• Missouri cops caught sporting ‘I am Darren Wilson’ bracelets at Ferguson protest
• Are three detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl now ISIS leaders?
• Watch: Anti-Obama Congresswoman Embarrasses Herself on CNN When Asked About Her ISIS Comments

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

Unarmed Citizens Shooting Gallery

• Dashboard video shows shooting of unarmed driver
• Federal investigators to review fatal Walmart shooting of John Crawford
• Louisiana deputy fatally shot 14-year-old 'four or five times in the back': family
• Cop who killed young Black man with dreads warned of Rasta drug culture

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

Rock The Voter News

•  Obama: Ebola threat to security
• U.S. chief law officer to resign
• Mika Brzezinski repeats myth that Super Bowl Sunday has 'highest rate of domestic violence'

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

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.




Business/Tech News

•  Oil prices plunging despite ISIS
• Airbus to help develop first supersonic business jet
• Home Depot Hack Is Letting Criminals Drain Money From People's Bank Accounts
• Highest-paid female CEO used to be a man

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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Odd News

• Abandoned truck dripping rancid chicken juice
• Groundhog dies after escaping NYC mayor's grip
• Women find python in the trunk of their rental car
• Harpist's mellow tone soothes apes at St. Paul zoo
• Slot machine saves German gambler as police arrive

Time To Deflate Photo

A side street in Spello, Italy.

Peace.

Republican Politician Is President Of Florida State University

John Thrasher, Rick Scott's Campaign Chair, Picked as FSU's Next President: Here's Why People Are Angry

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?

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• This Is How ISIS Makes $3 Million A Day
• Islamic fighters advance in Syria despite U.S. strikes
• Algerian militants issue video showing killing of kidnapped Frenchman
• Israel says Iran used Parchin military site for testing nuclear detonation technology
• Yemen president warns of civil war as factions collide

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

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP uses terror threat against Dems in campaign
• Congress pressured for Syria vote
• Fox ‘fair and balanced’ debate: Global warming happens in ‘fantasy world’ of scientists
• Pat Roberts invokes ‘national socialism’
• Tennessee Man Demonstrates Open Carry Near School Wearing Rifle

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.




Rock The Voter News

• President Obama gives his vision of US leadership to UN
• Obama on Ferguson: U.S. has own racial, ethnic tensions

 


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

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

Business/Tech News

• America Has More Low-Paying Jobs Than Any Other Developed Country
• Here Are The Most Unequal Counties In America
• Peyton Manning: Legal Pot Has Been Awesome For My Pizza Business
• One million Filipinos join booming Philippine outsourcing sector
• Jack Ma of Alibaba becomes China's richest person

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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Odd News

• The 25 Greatest Scientific Hoaxes In History
• Cop Crashes Into a Dunkin' Donuts in New Jersey
• Connecticut man arrested after driving stolen car to meeting with cops
• Boston time capsule believed found in lion statue
• Teacher who talked of killer robots resigned

Time To Deflate Photo

Port Blanc at sunset. Quiberon, Brittany France.

Peace.