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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Contentious debate over guns expected soon in Congress

Contentious debate over guns expected soon in Congress
Sen. Mitch McConnell assured the National Rifle Association a year ago that if Republicans took control of the Senate, the NRA's gun-friendly agenda would be on a faster track on Capitol Hill.

When the Black NRA shows up outside GOP meetings with guns to pose for pictures, I'm sure conservatives will love it!- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

"I want to take my country back" always sounds a bit more terrifying when it's said with a southern accent.- LOLGOP

Hack Attempt Of Israel Websites Falls Short
Pro-Palestinian hackers disrupted Israeli websites on Tuesday, following threats from the Anonymous hacking collective that it would carry out an "electronic Holocaust," though Israeli cyber experts said the coordinated attacks caused little damage.

Being poor hurts your brain -- and so does finding out Iran has better parental leave laws than the U.S.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

Jeb Bush identified himself as Hispanic, so I guess it's actually pronounced "Yeb Bush."- Seth Myers

Rand Paul Continues Family Tradition Of Running For President
Republican Rand Paul on Tuesday officially announced on his website that he will run for U.S. president in 2016, hours before an event in his home state of Kentucky where he is expected to formally launch the campaign.

Rand Paul is less a champion of individual liberty and more a champion of inherit-your-presidential-campaign-from-your-dad liberty.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

Obama slams Walker, GOP 2016ers for 'foolish approach' on Iran deal

President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect — telling people, “Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.”- Jimmy Fallon

Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.- Conan O'Brien

Business/Tech News

More Than Half Of U.S. Inmates Are Mentally Ill
Occasionally policymakers and activists will talk about how the justice system needs to keep mentally ill people out of prisons. If it did that, prisons would be very empty indeed. A new Urban Institute report points out that more than half of all inmates in jails and state prisons have a mental illness of some kind:

It would be easier to respect your religious freedom if you weren't trying to break up other people's marriages to celebrate it.- LOLGOP

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

Angel Falls, Venezuela.

Peace.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Sick Day

Thank you for stopping by.

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday. I spent mine quietly as I was not feeling well. I feel as though I have the flu.

Not to leave you empty handed, I posted a few phototoons I found on the Internets.

WWI field radio.

Peace.

Friday, April 3, 2015

Fights Over 'Religious Freedom' And Gay Rights Are Costing Republicans

Graphic by Rick Wise. Thank you.

Fights Over 'Religious Freedom' And Gay Rights Are Costing Republicans
Following a firestorm of criticism, Republican governors in Indiana and Arkansas signed revised versions of their states' Religious Freedom Restoration bills Thursday night. In Indiana the language was adjusted, and in Arkansas it was significantly scaled back to more closely align with the federal law.

Today is Good Friday, when some pro-death penalty Christians commemorate anti-death penalty Jesus getting the death penalty.- John Fugelsang

Email
Subject: "Open the drawbridge"

Hi Lisa,

I opened this morning’s New York Times to the headline, “Benjamin Netanyahu Says Final Nuclear Deal Must Include Iran’s Recognition of Israel”.

Oh it “must,” must it? Why, because you say so?

Netanyahu reminds me of the ant with an erection, floating down the river on his back and yelling, “Open the drawbridge!”

My reaction was, “F@#k this guy. If he wanted recognition included in the deal, he could have and should have raised the issue years ago, not almost-after-the-fact. And he could have been just a little more solicitous of the President of the United States in the meantime.

Netanyahu demonstrates once again that he is not an honest player and cannot be trusted. He does not want a deal between the P5+1 and Iran; he wants war with Iran – a war in we will be expected to invest still more blood and treasure in the Middle East.

It astounds me that we can be on the verge of an agreement among the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, Germany, and Iran … and Israel, who is not even a party to the agreement, presumes it can sashay in and blow up the deal.

Sorry, Bibi, you’re too late. Now it’s time for you to STFD and STFU. This drawbridge is closed.

Best,
~Rick

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The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

This deal isn't good enough! is a very serious concern from the guys who insist Iran would cheat on any deal.- LOLGOP

Iran Talks End. Iran Celebrates, USA Meh.
By the elation online and in the streets, you'd think Iran had just won the World Cup. But this is bigger.

Iranians erupted in celebration as young people waved flags from their sunroofs, blasted music from stereos and chatted online with the hashtag #IranTalks.

"Ted Cruz is the Abraham Lincoln of Sarah Palins." -John Fugelsang

Iraq Vet Confronts Karl Rove
An Iraq war veteran confronted former White House advisor Karl Rove during a speaking engagement on Tuesday and demanded he apologize for the war.

GOP solution to the California drought is to give the remaining water to the rich so it will then trickle down to the poor.- Tea Party Cat

Republican Shenanigans

Indiana Is Waving The Flag, Now!
The rainbow flag, a symbol of gay rights, flies prominently on the Visit Indy website and Indiana’s Republican Governor Mike Pence personally phoned the head of a Seattle company that gathers 56,000 gaming nerds in the heartland each year.
These are just some of the signs that Indianapolis, a corn belt city of 850,000 with a $4.4 billion tourism industry, has gone into full-on damage control to make sure its growing convention business is not harmed by a national uproar over a religious bill that Pence signed into law last week.

George Pataki blasts Indiana’s 'Religious Freedom' law, in case the GOP is interested in someone who's electable this century. -John Fugelsang

O'Reilly & Coulter Mad At Christians Not Defending Religious Freedoms
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Thursday brought on conservative pundit Ann Coulter to lament the lack of leadership by Christians in defending the Indiana religious freedom law altered by lawmakers on Thursday.

"During a speech on Friday, Senator Ted Cruz said that if you walk up to someone and say 'Joe Biden,' the person will crack up laughing. Which is the same reaction you get if you say 'President Ted Cruz.'" -Seth Meyers

Rock The Voter News

"As of this week, the only state that President Obama has not visited while in office is South Dakota. Residents of South Dakota said they're looking forward to President Obama or any black person visiting soon." –Conan O'Brien

After a deal that could delay war, fate decided to cheer Republicans up with a meh jobs report.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

Hi, I'm an American who won't ever let my tax $ go to abortion. And now I must go buy some Chinese-made products. -John Fugelsang

Do You Use Firefox?
Mozilla Corp, creator of the popular Firefox web browser, said on Thursday it would follow Google Inc and no longer recognize new certificates of trust issued by a Chinese Internet agency.

It seems the economy has been roughed up by the "denying gay people pizza" sector.- LOLGOP