Americans Rally Around The President As Obama Approval Jumps 5 Points Thanks To Netanyahu

Americans Rally Around The President As Obama Approval Jumps 5 Points Thanks To Netanyahu
Since Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu arrived in the U.S., President Obama’s approval rating has increased by 5 points in the Gallup poll.




"If you take out Saddam…I guarantee it will have enormous, positive reverberations on the region" - that other #BibiSpeech to Congress, 2002. - John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Netanyahu rejects Obama criticism of Iran speech
• Islamic State targeted in 12 air strikes by U.S., coalition: statement
• Iraq jihadists slow Tikrit advance with bombs and snipers
• British former marine reported killed in Syria
• Warplanes strike airport in Libyan town, limited damage: official
• Putin Calls Opposition Politician's Slaying a 'Disgrace'
• U.S. says 'seriously concerned' about North Korea's nuclear work

Ralph Kramden actually threatened to send Alice to the moon fewer times than Netanyahu has said Iran was about to get nuclear weapons. - LOLGOP

Meanwhile, Back In Paris There Are Drones Everywhere
Paris police on Wednesday said the public had reported around a dozen drone sightings over sensitive areas of the French capital -- the latest in a baffling series of overflights.

That awkward moment when Republicans question the President's patriotism and then outsource US foreign policy to Benjamin Netanyahu.- Tea Party Cat





How Far The Mighty Have Fallen
 Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified information, with the retired four-star general admitting to giving eight "black books" full of such data to a military mistress who was writing his biography.

We have unlimited funds for war with Iran, say Republicans, but can't afford to fix that shaky bridge your kid's school bus uses each day.- The Daily Edge Tweet





Republican Shenanigans

• Justice Dept. probe reeals Ferguson police and local officials shared racist anti-Obama ‘joke’
• Alabama high court orders halt to same-sex marriage licenses
• Activist Predicts That Priests Will be Arrested for Opposing Gay Marriage
• From Nixon to Walker: The death of the GOP’s racist ‘Southern Strategy’ has been greatly exaggerated

RNC chairman Reince Priebus criticized Joe Biden, saying that he can't control his mouth. That's kind of like someone trying to say the name "Reince Priebus," which sounds like a drunk person trying to say "rented Prius."- Jimmy Fallon

Conservatives Say The Poor Don't Deserve Tax Subsidies For Health Insurance
 The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Wednesday a second major legal attack on President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with conservative challengers taking aim at a pivotal part of the statute that authorizes tax subsidies to help people afford insurance.

REPORT: Jeb Bush's campaign considering going with the slogan "Better at Email."- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• It Was Only After Clinton Left The State Department That The Law Concerning Private Emails Was Changed
• Chris Matthews livid after Netanyahu’s speech: GOP assisted a ‘takeover attempt’ by a foreign government

Ferguson Police Still Mum On Internal Investigation
Seven months after one of its white officers fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old, the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department’s own findings of what transpired remain under wraps.






BREAKING: Netanyahu rejects Newsmax proposal to be photographed shirtless on a horse. - The Daily Edge Tweet

Who Knew Hillary Was A Tech Head?
 The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Clinton's official emails when she was secretary of state traced back to an residential Internet service registered to her family's home in Chappaqua, New York.

Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press disclosed the service registered to the Clinton home.

Business/Tech News

• Crude reality: Oil poses biggest political risk
• Target is firing thousands of workers
• Why Midwestern farmers want to break the Cuba embargo
• Following public outcry, Costa Rica temporarily blocks exports of hammerhead shark fins

The latest ranking of the world's richest billionaires came out this morning. Bill Gates came in first with $79.2 billion. I feel bad for him. Can you imagine having that much money and you still don't have an iPhone 6?- Seth Myers

Meanwhile, Back In Egypt
Bulldozers push earth and dredgers spit mud round the clock at Egypt's Suez Canal in a race to quickly expand the strategic waterway for two-way traffic, a project trumpeted by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to revive both the country's damaged economy and visions of nationalist glory.





Taco Bell is testing a new product called “Cap’n Crunch Delights,” which are balls of sweet dough, covered in crushed Cap’n Crunch cereal, and filled with a “milk icing” — you know, Mexican food.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Was this the childhood home of Jesus?
• Space-walking astronaut tweets photos that reveal the breathtaking size of the space station
• Malfunctioning Miami Beach welcome sign sends mixed message
• On Cat Island, Cats Outnumber Humans 6 To 1
• The 'Hot Convict' Is Going To Be A Model After Prison

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Breathtaking Pamukkale Thermal Pools,Turkey.

Peace.

Netanyahu warns Congress: Deal will lead to Iranian nuclear bomb

Netanyahu warns Congress: Deal will lead to Iranian nuclear bomb
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that a proposed agreement between world powers and Iran was "a bad deal" that would not stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons -- but would rather pave its way to getting lots of them and leave the Jewish State in grave peril.





We conservatives swooned over Netanyahu. Until we realized we now have to go back to our mealy-mouthed candidates for 2016!- Mrs. Betty Bowers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• General: 8500 IS fighters killed in Iraq so far
• U.S.-led coalition launches 14 air strikes against Islamic State: task force
• As Iraqis advance on Tikrit, threat of car bombs, mines loom
• Turkey Delivers Military Aid to Iraq
• Australia to send 300 extra troops to Iraq on joint training mission with NZ
• Kremlin critic wants international probe into Nemtsov death
• Obama, European leaders to discuss Ukraine, global security

Charlie Daniels is right. The South's gonna do it again. Because one biblically-proportioned ass-kicking just wasn't enough. - Kona Lowell

The exact same guys who said we needed a war with Iraq now said we need one with Iran. At least they have the courtesy to use a new Bush.- LOLGOP




Snowden Must Be Getting Homesick
 Edward Snowden, the fugitive whistleblower who has been given refuge in Russia, is willing to return to the United States if he is given a fair trial, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Republican Shenanigans

• Boehner Makes Republicans 'Tools and Dupes' of Netanyahu's Election Campaign
• Pat Robertson: Smoking pot is ‘slavery to vegetables,’ but God can ‘set you free’
• Report: Witnesses said Jeb Bush lied about Nigeria sales deal

The pressure to lose more wars than your brother must be especially intense for Jeb Bush.- LOLGOP

We live in a world where a few bad Yelp reviews can ruin your business but 8 years of losing wars makes you a foreign policy expert.- LOLGOP

Bent Boehner?
House Speaker John Boehner is expected to move soon -- as early as Tuesday -- to bring up the clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for a vote on the House floor, according to two House GOP sources familiar with leadership discussions.






#CPAC, where conservative Christians come once a year to embarrass Jesus.- Kona Lowell

Hillary Used Private Deviously Named Email While Secretary of State
During her four years as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton did not use a State Department email account, opting instead to conduct official business through a personal email account that wasn't then and is not now under the government's control.






Rock The Voter News

• Iran calls Obama's 10-year nuclear demand 'unacceptable' 
• Obama Eyes More Tax Hikes---By Executive Action 
• Pelosi 'Saddened' By 'Condescension' To US By Netanyahu
• Tougher laws a likely legacy of the Disneyland measles outbreak

Presidential Aspirations?
Former Maryland Governor and possible Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said on Tuesday he will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski.




That awkward moment when Republicans question the President's patriotism and then outsource US foreign policy to Benjamin Netanyahu.- Tea Party Cat

I Wonder If There Are Shadows Of Coffins On Dubya's Portrait
Nelson Shanks, who painted a portrait of former President Bill Clinton in 2006, revealed in an interview published Sunday that there's more to the image than meets the eye, including a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

"The reality is he's probably the most famous liar of all time," Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News....

"If you take out Saddam…I guarantee it will have enormous, positive reverberations on the region" - that other #BibiSpeech to Congress, 2002 - John Fugelsang




Business/Tech News

• US running out of room to store oil; price collapse next?
• Alibaba shares are at an all-time low — and people are asking questions about fake customers
• Russia troubles hinder Ford, GM efforts to recover in Europe
• Morning briefing: Republican calls UW research on right-to-work 'partisan, garbage'

The GOP wants to repeat every single mistake that led to the Iraq War and the Great Recession. So don't be angry about it or anything.- LOLGOP




Deadly Bacteria Infects Monkeys
How a potentially deadly strain of bacteria escaped from a primate research lab infecting four monkeys is a mystery, government officials said, but they added the incident poses no threat to the public.

If the Pope's against birth control because God commands us to be fruitful and multiply then why's the Pope celibate?- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• N.J. Mayor decides public can't ask questions at council meetings
• Mystery solved: Source of bad smell in Louisville found
• Woman admits digging up dad's grave in search of 'real will'
• Southern California beach turned white by hail from storm
• Mt. Everest Is Covered In Human Poop, And That's a Problem

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The Blue Grotto in Malta.

Peace.

Snowball's Chance In Hell

Inhofe’s Insane Climate Denial Speech Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Republican Party Right Now

...Inhofe tried to make the case that global warming is fake because it is currently very cold. This is not even true. (It is unusually cold in the Eastern United States, but the planet on the whole is having an unusually warm year.) 

I always prefer scientists over politicians when it comes to science. But that's just me.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Boris Nemtsov murder: chief witness 'prevented' from leaving Russia
• Ukraine's military says one Ukrainian serviceman killed in past 24 hours
• Attacks Kill 37 People in and North of Iraq's Capital
• Iraq Begins Offensive to Recapture Tikrit From ISIS
• These Americans return to Iraq as Christian warriors against Islamic State
• N. Korea fires missiles in anger at South-US military drills
• Los Angeles police shoot, kill man on the ground
• City of Cleveland: 12-year-old Tamir Rice caused his own death by failing to ‘avoid injury’

The GOP will worship a leader of a government with universal healthcare and government-funded abortions if he wants to bomb Iran hard enough. - LOLGOP




ISIS Threatens Twitter?
Twitter Inc and U.S. authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network's co-founder and other employees, according to media reports.

The last time Netanyahu meddled in American politics like this we got President Romney.- LOLGOP




U.S. Jews Disagree With Netanyahu
Strong Jewish support for an Iran nuclear deal was a surprise finding of a poll of American Jews who voted Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned against any deal that leaves Iran with an enrichment program

I wonder if a bunch of people who still think Saddam was building nukes will be upset to find out Bill O'Reilly lied about another thing.- LOLGOP





Venezuela Says NO To Bush, Cheney & Other GOPers
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a new mandatory visa requirement for all Americans visiting the country. The leader also called to review and downsize the number of US embassy staff in Caracas....He added that former US President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and Republican Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Robert Menendez, and Marco Rubio will be denied visas into the country, labeling Bush and Cheney as “terrorists.”

Republican Shenanigans

• Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll, Scott Walker close second 
• Ben Carson: Religion is needed to interpret science because ‘maybe it’s just propaganda’
• Republican Congress struggles for stable footing as funding standoff continues
• Fox News doctor: ‘Crack babies’ come from women ‘smoking this whole marijuana business’
• John Oliver: Even a ‘total idiot’ like Donald Trump knows we need to rebuild our infrastructure

'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.' - Warren Buffett

Undoing Obamacare
Republican fears are mounting over a Supreme Court case that the party has long hailed as its best chance to undo ObamaCare.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on a GOP-backed case that threatens to erase healthcare subsidies for 8 million people. The vast stakes are raising alarm among Republicans, particularly in the Senate, who increasingly fear a backlash at the polls if their party can’t find a fix.

...and we thank thee, Lord, for the comedic gift of hate-driven Twitter trolls who spell 'Moron' with an 'a.'- John Fugelsang

The difference between your guns and health insurance is someone is actually coming for your health insurance. - LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Obama condemns 'brutal, vicious' Nemtsov killing
• Obama to focus on civil rights struggles past and present 

Marijuana is officially legal in our nation’s capital. Or as President Obama put it, “Clear some space, Michelle. Barry's getting his OWN garden!”- Jimmy Fallon

“It’s like Palm Springs without the riff-raff.” —Robert Mitchum, describing the L.A. county prison farm where he served two months for marijuana possession in 1949.

Same-sex marriage bans went out of fashion quicker than Chris Christie.- LOLGOP

Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to “unlock their full potential,” because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, “You can’t just steal someone’s slogan like that!” And Hillary said, “Yes we can!”- Jimmy Fallon



Business/Tech News

• Oil falls toward $61 on dollar, supply concerns
• Construction picks back up, but it's a different gig now
• Yahoo! celebrates 20th anniversary 
• Michael Jordan joins billionaires' club

Net Neutrality is Big Government Overreach. When Jesus wrote the Constitution, he never intended the government to regulate the internet.- Tea Party Cat




Mainstream Media Ignoring Biggest Trade Agreement Ever!
Adding to the chorus of protest over President Obama’s push for a controversial new trade pact with Asia, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sounded off on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and accused mainstream media of not covering what could be one of the biggest trade agreements in history.

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Odd News

• That stinks: Source of bad smell evades Louisville officials
• New Hampshire lake is Lower 48's only ice runway
• Maine weighs revoking seat belt law days after 75-car pileup
• Vermont town could let those ages 16, 17, vote locally
• Dude, where's my car: NASCAR machine stolen before race

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Lake Pehoe, Patagonia, Chile.

Peace.