Monday, November 24, 2014

Has Congress' 11% approval rating increased since the election?







Costa Rica has been without a U.S. ambassador for a year and a half, but it doesn’t look like Stafford Fitzgerald Haney – whom President Barack Obama nominated for the job back in July – will be relocating to San JosĂ© anytime soon.




I'm tired of battle lines being drawn. Why can't we just come together for once and let gun deaths continue unabated?- Top Conservative Cat









The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam




Lithuania To Help Ukraine
 Lithuania is to provide Ukraine with some military aid to help in its fight against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday.



Pretty good week for my fantasy political football team. I started Rudy Giuliani at racist commenter and benched Benghazi.- LOLGOP







Begone Benghazi !
The CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a Republican-controlled House committee has found. Its report concluded that there was no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials.




The Benghazi coverup is so huge it has even ensnared those who made up the Benghazi scandal.- LOLGOP






Hagel Gets The Boot From Obama
In the first major cabinet shakeup since Democrats suffered a drubbing in this year's midterms, Chuck Hagel will reportedly step down as Defense Secretary.

The New York Times reported that President Obama asked Hagel to step down from his post last Friday




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UTAH: Kill Em With Bullets!
Utah would restore the practice of killing condemned inmates by firing squad under a bill advancing in the state legislature, amid growing nationwide concerns about botched executions using the more common method of lethal injection.



Ted Cruz to shut down the government if Obama won't execute the turkey :(  -  LOLGOP








This Is What Happens When A Dummy Waves A Gun
St. Louis police were investigating an incident in which a woman waving a gun inside a vehicle and saying she was "ready for Ferguson" apparently shot herself in the head by accident, CNN reported Sunday.






Still stunned that the guys who are wrong about marriage, climate change, trickle down economics and evolution were wrong about #Benghazi#. - LOLGOP








Deja Vu Impeachment
The Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) admitted on Face The Nation that the lawsuits filed by Republicans are about setting up the impeachment of President Obama.







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#TexasUSHistory If you try really hard you can scrape Roosevelt off of a dime.- John Fugelsang



Obama Is Giving Away Free Medals!!!!
President Barack Obama is presenting the nation's highest civilian honor to 19 artists, activists, public servants and others.




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Well I was wrong. As of today it is in fact possible to watch FOX News for an hour and not hear the word 'Benghazi.'- John Fugelsang




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"President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States." –Conan O'Brien










Marleyboros?
The family of reggae superstar Bob Marley, whose public embrace of marijuana made him synonymous with cannabis culture, has joined a private equity firm to launch the first global consumer marijuana brand.








"Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'" –Conan O'Brien







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The Blue-footed Booby, The Galápagos Islands

Peace.

Friday, November 21, 2014

TGIF?

Wow....what a day I had...all good but I was no where near my computer.

Life is tough without a car, so I have to depend on the kindness of my amigos to attend to my needs.

I spent the day in lovely Tamarindo (I was only supposed to be there for a couple of hours) and one thing turned into another and I just arrived home.

I must say that I had the best Italian treat, a vanilla and chocolate gelato, encrusted with crispy lady fingers made by a lovely, lively Sicilian woman named Gea. All courtesy of my Swiss friend, Yvonne.  Yes, I am in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, where everyone is from everywhere.

God, I love this country.

We stopped at Auto Mercado, a very Americanized grocery store, to shop for groceries. This is my favorite market in Costa Rica and I rarely go there, mainly because I don't have transportation. Their French bread is the best, in fact all their bakery goods are to die for.

Yvonne filled the grocery cart with all my favorites and insisted on paying for it.

She knew I lost my debit card last week (Chemo brain) and also knew that I wouldn't have access to my new card for a couple of weeks.

My landlord Angele, a French Canadian and Yvonne's best friend, has been feeding me since I lost my card. Double bless her heart, both their hearts.

This is what I love about this country, people are so understanding of difficult times and embrace the motto of Costa Rica...Pura Vida...Pure Life.

I hope you will understand me for not posting today.

Pura Vida.



The Sicilian treat plus Yvonne's feet.



 This is Yvonne. She was a Swiss nurse that took care of our boys in Vietnam. A national treasure in my humble opinion.

Peace to all.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Network News' Shameful Decision To Snub Obama's Immigration Address





Network News' Shameful Decision To Snub Obama's Immigration Address
Early in his first term, President George W. Bush addressed the nation in primetime about allowing for limited stem cell research in America and his approval for limited medical research. During the weeks leading up to the announcement, there had a been regular news coverage of the topic, as the White House let reporters know the president was deeply engaged on the issue and was meeting with an array of experts to guide him.



I believe in the idea of Amnesty for those who've put down roots & lived here even though they may have entered illegally. -Ronald Reagan







The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam





How dare President Obama offer temporary relief to people that 3/4 Americans want to give citizenship to?- LOLGOP







Federal Judge Says NO To Maine
 A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Maine's effort to trim some young people from its Medicaid rolls, saying the move would violate the Affordable Care Act.



Republican Shenanigans





Republicans have a dance party whenever they find out people didn't get health insurance.- LOLGOP








Florida State University: 3 Shot, Gunman Killed By Police 
 Panic swept through the Florida State University library early Thursday when a rampaging gunman shot three people before being killed in a hail of police bullets, police said.




This sickens me as an FSU grad and a human being. 
I am convinced that the hatred in this country causes all these shootings. Just read the online comments of the Internet's largest news site, Yahoo, which advocates people taking the law or ANGER into their own hands.
The U.S. is filled with hate and they're armed. 
Head in hands.

If we stopped hate speech, Fox News would only be on air for 10 minutes of each day. - JokeBlogger.com





Republicans saying Obama is not a king is actually a step up from 6 years of them saying he wasn't really president. - LOLGOP


So, you think it's cold?




Be honest. The person the GOP base wants to deport most is President Obama.- LOLGOP



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By the middle of this century, white people will not be the majority anything, except owners of golf pants.- LOLGOP








It Has Become Acceptable To Be A Racist. Thanks Republiscum
The anti-immigrant Secretary of State for Kansas agreed with a caller on his radio program that a Hispanic majority might conduct “ethnic cleansing” against whites.




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Undocumented families that want to pay taxes. Multinational corporations that don't.

Guess which one the GOP considers "people?"- LOLGOP



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Weird. The last time the S&P 500 did this well we'd just re-elected another president who'd raised taxes on the rich. - LOLGOP



It Is Just A Matter Of When IMHO
China and "probably one or two" other countries have the ability to invade and possibly shut down computer systems of U.S. power utilities, aviation networks and financial companies, Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said on Thursday.




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Salvador Dali kisses 25-year-old Raquel Welch's hand in front of his abstract portrait of her, 1965.

Peace.