More Americans hold favorable view of George W. Bush than Barack Obama

More Americans hold favorable view of George W. Bush than Barack Obama
More Americans have a favorable view of former President George W. Bush than of President Barack Obama, a new CNN/ORC poll finds.





Officials near Dallas are reporting that torrential rain and recent flooding has started driving snakes to attack people. Wow, Texans don’t just read the Bible, they’re living it.- Seth Myers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• U.S., allies launch 18 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq: military
• More than 10,000 jihadists killed since coalition raids: US
• Mothers call on children who've joined IS to come home
• Bangladesh academics get death threats from extremist group
• Philippine leader likens China to Nazi Germany
• Georgia man wandered around Atlanta airport with a loaded AR-15 because ‘something might happen’

Jeb Bush is less popular than George W. Bush and Jeb hasn't even invaded Iraq or wrecked our economy yet.- LOLGOP

Meanwhile, Back In The USSR Ukraine
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists on Wednesday fought their first serious battles in months and Ukraine's defense minister said an attempt by rebels to take the eastern town of Maryinka had been thwarted.





Imagine sperm under a microscope all trying to get at one egg - that's the 2016 GOP field and evangelical voters. - Tina Dupuy

Republican Shenanigans

• Ted Cruz Does JFK Impression And Argues He’d Be A Republican Today
• Megyn Kelly Questions Obama’s Support for Police: ‘Often Couched with Criticism’
• Ron Paul: Why do Republicans ‘roll over’ for Fox?
• Fox Brings On Gun Extremist Larry Pratt To Defend Vince Vaughn
• Sheriff's Report: One Of Josh Duggar's Alleged Victims Was 5-Year-Old Girl
• Hastert questions consume Capitol

Republicans upset they have to deny fake news stories instead of confirming real stories like a GOP frontrunner defending a child molester.- LOLGOP

Bernie Is Not Afraid Of The GOP
Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to push for debates between the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates now, because, he says, the GOP is “getting away with murder” and they need to be called out on that.





They tell me U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders can't win b/c America won't vote for a Socialist Jew. I tell them America already celebrates a Socialist Jew every Dec 25.- John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

• Obama signs new curbs on NSA surveillance into law
• Is Hillary Clinton in Trouble?

Lindsey Graham: "I don't use email."
Jeb Bush: "I don't use science."
Sarah Palin: "I don't use English."
- The Daily Edge

GOP Wants To Make It Easier For Yahoos To Get Guns
Lawmakers are bracing for a showdown on Capitol Hill over gun provisions in a bill to fund the Justice Department (DOJ).
House Republicans are seeking to roll back a number of controversial gun regulations from the Obama administration, but not without a fight from Democrats.

If the Republican debates were held tomorrow, they'd be hilarious.- LOLGOP

Gay Marriage Now In Costa Rica
A Costa Rican judge has granted the first openly gay common-law marriage in Central America, said Francisco Madrigal, political affairs director for the Center for Research and Promotion of Human Rights in Central America (CIPAC).





Business/Tech News

• BP CEO: Shale gas 'very painful' for much of world
• Costa Rica lawmaker to promote bill improving sex workers’ rights
• Oklahoma Is Latest State To Prevent Local Fracking Bans 
• Boeing starts building first 737 MAX jet on schedule

The more twang a politicians voice has, the more they believe Jesus rode a dinosaur. - JokeBlogger.com




Meanwhile In The UK
A Chinese company has been selected to help build the world's first artificial tidal lagoon to generate clean electricity for British homes, the company behind the project said Wednesday.

Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.- Jimmy Fallon

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Odd News

• Prosecutor: NYPD Cop Used Dead Man’s Credit Card to Buy Diamond Ring
• New Chinese restaurant's name: I Don't Know
• New Hampshire governor blocks baby pictures on beer bottles
• Man's red underwear leads to burglary arrest
• Godzilla Is Now Officially A Resident Of Japan
• Pot Use May Protect Against Parasitic Worms: Study

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Fly Geyser is a man-made small geothermal geyser located in Washoe County, Nevada. It was accidentally created by well drilling in 1964 exploring for sources of geothermal energy.

Peace.

Miss Them Yet?

‘I wished they had killed me': Detainee details sexual torture tactics used by CIA interrogators
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness.




People talk about Obama wanting a relationship with Iran as though he's gonna dump Michelle for Tehran. - Lizz Winstead

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Iraqi leader decries 'failure' of world to confront Islamic State gains
• U.S. accuses Syria of backing Islamic State's Aleppo advance
• Iran's Rouhani vows to back Syria 'until the end of the road'
• Hamas Kills Islamic State Supporter in Gaza Crackdown
• Obama warns China against 'throwing elbows' in sea dispute

Right now, this very week, your government can't record your phone sex.- John Fugelsang

The FBI Is Watching You From Above
The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government







Every time Jeb Bush says "when my brother was president," take a drink. (No don't. You'll die of alcohol poisoning.) - Jeff Tiedrich

Republican Shenanigans

• Dennis Hastert's Arraignment Delayed Until Next Week
• Stewart Fillets McCain For Attacking Rand Paul: You 'Stooped' To Palin (VIDEO)
• U.S. top court declines request to revive Arizona immigration law
• Michele Bachmann upset we can’t indoctrinate immigrants into Christianity
• GoFundMe Removes $10M Crowd-Funding Campaign from Anti-Islam Rally Organizer
• Huckabee: I Should Have Pretended To Be Transgender In School To 'Shower With The Girls' (VIDEO)
• Is Caitlyn Jenner still a Republican? And is that even fair to ask?

Last week Mike Huckabee cheered for a child molester. Not stupid/creepy enough? This week, he daydreams about showering with underage girls!- Mrs. Betty Bowers

Once A Dick...
Dick Cheney, reports The Wall Street Journal’s Patrick O’Connor, has a new book coming out in September, as well as “a Darth Vader trailer-hitch cover, a nod to his alter-ego from the Bush days,” and also a slightly new way of defending his administration’s record of protecting Americans from terrorist attacks. Cheney now tells O’Connor his policies “kept us safe for 7½ years.”








Thinking of starting a Draft Dick Cheney movement, but he's too good at avoiding drafts.- LOLGOP

Revered constitutional scholar Vince Vaughn favors guns in school. Who better to speak on gun safety than an alcoholic with rage issues?- Mrs. Betty Bowers

Be Cool, Vince
Actor Vince Vaughn speaks out for guns in schools.
Gunmen target schools 'because they know there are no guns there'










If 30,000 Americans died of fork injuries every year, I'd say we at least need better fork background checks.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Wear orange to fight guns and honor Hadiya Pendleton
• Campaign To Draft Warren Calls It Quits
• Barack Obama Praises Caitlyn Jenner: 'It Takes Courage To Share Your Story'

Barney Frank: Dennis Hastert makes Bill Clinton "almost look like a virgin" 





Beau Biden
President Obama on Saturday will deliver a eulogy for Vice President Biden’s son, Beau, who died after a long battle with brain cancer.

2 things a Black person can't do: Get a TV show for having 19 kids and go shopping at Walmart with an AK-47.- Kona Lowell






Canada PO'd At USA For Wanting Information
Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat-labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday.

"Why should I have to press 1 to speak Romulan?"
— Conservatives From Outer Space
- Jeff Tiedrich

Chip, Chip, Chipping Away At Obamacare
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted to repeal two pieces of ObamaCare.

The committee advanced measures that would repeal the medical device tax and a cost-cutting panel known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Both bills are scheduled to go to the House floor the week of June 15.





Someone who ignores the Old Testament? Christian! Someone who ignores the New Testament? Conservative Christian! - Mrs. Betty Bowers

Business/Tech News

• House panel advances $579 billion Pentagon funding bill
• Tobacco giants vow to fight Canadian judgment handing C$15bn to smokers
• U.S. may take first step to curb airline emissions this week: sources
• Jenner debuts post-Bruce look, breaks Twitter record

It's hard to have sympathy for the Koch brothers, but my heart goes out to them that they don't have a better choice of candidates to buy.- Andy Borowitz

What's The Russian Military Industrial Complex Doing?
The Russian company that makes the BUK air defense system that was used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine said on Tuesday the plane was hit by a missile deployed by Ukraine and not widely used by Russia's military.





Caitlyn Jenner is the most inspiring lgbt person ever to support a political party that doesn't support lgbt persons.- John Fugelsang

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Imagine, we were giving cocaine to little children  over a 100 years ago.

Odd News

• First Paris, now Saskatoon: love locks lost
• U.K. woman jailed for having loud sex
• That's not mistletoe ... North Pole won't block pot sales
• State: Man who said Holy Spirit guided him ran Ponzi scheme
• Pork-eating Israeli soldier spared detention after secular outcry

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Table for two, please?

Peace.

Senate Allows 3 Provisions Within The Patriot Act To Expire

Senate Allows 3 Provisions Within The Patriot Act To Expire
After a rare Sunday Senate session, three provisions within the Patriot Act expired at midnight — including a program that allowed the government to collect the phone records of millions of Americans.




I think we'll survive without the PATRIOT Act as long as we don't do anything dumb like elect another Bush.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Islamic State suicide attack kills 38 Iraqi policemen
• US: Yemen's Houthi Insurgents Holding 'Several' Americans
• IS claims suicide bombing on Shiite mosque in Saudi, 4 dead
• More than 680 in South Korea isolated over MERS virus fears
• France, Germany raise concerns over EU migrant redistribution plan
• Pentagon chief pledges $18 million for Hanoi to buy patrol boats
• Men brace for 'beard patrols' in Iraq's IS-held Mosul

We can't get Bush's bad ideas to go away. We can't even get his brother to go away.- LOLGOP




Dick Cheney's Iraq Thoughts Before Working For Halliburton
Dick Cheney on why the US shouldn’t invade Iraq (1994):
“If you take down the central gov’t…you could… see… pieces of Iraq fly off”- Dick Cheney 1994

John Kerry Breaks Leg Biking
John Kerry's U.S. surgeon is on his way to Switzerland to inspect the injury that the secretary of state sustained in a cycling accident.











Americans, we talk a big game about “we’re the greatest country in the world,”
I mean, come on. We drink wine out of a box.  We invented Mormonism.  
Our best-selling author is Bill O’Reilly.  Most Americans don’t know that the “Big Bang Theory”…is also a theory. - Bill Maher

Republican Shenanigans

• Wheaton College Strips Dennis Hastert's Name from Center 
• Dennis Hastert Reportedly Tells Associates 'I Am A Victim, Too'
• Lindsey Graham Has a Long History of Saying Really Crazy Things About Foreign Policy
• Homeschool mom rips Charles Darwin: ‘If he were any kind of good scientist, he would start over again’
• Thousands of right-wing ‘moms’ protest fantasy TV series on Fox for making Satan too ‘likeable’

Remember when Gingrich had to resign as speaker & they brought in Hastert, because he was thought to be much more likable? - John Fugelsang

I Love All Three Democratic Candidates. They Are Smart.
For months, Martin O'Malley has mulled how to compete with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

Now that he's officially a candidate, he also has to worry about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:
1. He called everyone brother.
2. He liked Gospel.
3. He didn't get a fair trial.
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
1. He went into His Father's business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God.
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
1. He talked with His hands.
2. He had wine with His meals.
3. He used olive oil.
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:
1. He never cut His hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an American Indian:
1. He was at peace with nature.
2. He ate a lot of fish.
3. He talked about the Great Spirit.
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:
1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.
But the most compelling evidence of all - 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:
1. He fed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was virtually no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn't get it.
3. And even when He was dead; He had to get up because there was still work to do.

Rock The Voter News

• Senators offer condolences to Beau Biden's family
• Iowa Poll shows big Clinton lead, but also some worries
• Bernie Sanders Likens Salacious 1972 Essay To 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'
• Dem Martin O'Malley Tries To Egg On Sarah Palin To Get Into The 2016 Race

Cop Tries To Rescue Man, Shoots Him Instead
The wife of a man who was fatally shot by Oklahoma highway patrol officers as they responded to a stranded vehicle call has questioned the initial police account of the incident.

“I love trains. It’s the only way to travel anymore where it doesn’t involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.” – Bill Maher

Hours after the crash, House Republicans voted to cut Amtrak’s budget. Why do Republicans hate trains? They love everything else from the 'good old days': swing music and Route 66 and segregation.But, somehow, if you get to work in anything other than a Buick, you’re not a real American.” – Bill Maher

Plan To Retire At 65? Jeb Says Whoa!
Jeb Bush wants to push back the retirement age for Social Security by as many as five years.
Instead of allowing Americans to collect full benefits at age 65, the former Florida governor and likely GOP presidential candidate suggested on Sunday that it should be pushed back to 68 or 70.











Wall Street opens higher as traders excited after another major banking scandal ends without a single person going to jail. - Tea Party Cat

Business/Tech News

• Glenn Greenwald: Media Irresponsibly Scaring People over Patriot Act
• 'No Diet Coke for you': Islamophobia claim prompts United Airlines boycott
• KFC Sues Chinese Companies Spreading Mutant Chickens Rumors Online
• Shelly Sterling says family didn't talk to her after sale of Clippers

The Clippers sale will double Donald Sterling's net worth. That'll teach him. - John Fugelsang

Disaster Movie Trailer "San Andreas"
The snickering could be heard as soon as the first teaser for the movie "San Andreas" was posted online.
Key plot points defy the laws of physics. An earthquake that opens up a canyon? Impossible. A San Andreas-triggered tsunami clobbering San Francisco? Please. A magnitude 9 earthquake in California?
Ha ha ha, say the earthquake experts.




Why would I pay to see a disaster movie? I still remember the Bush administration vividly.- Kona Lowell

Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight. 1893, Princeton NJ.

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Just a reminder: Life is good.

Odd News

• CNN blooper video: the most hilarious on-air mishaps
• Indicted Ex-FIFA Vice President Cites 'Onion' Article In Defense (VIDEO) 
• Birkin sets auction record for handbags, sold for $222,000
• Turkey's Erdogan challenges opposition to find his golden toilet seat
• German police alerted to armed mob, find asparagus pickers

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This is a Weedy Seadragon, which is a close relative of the Seahorse. I never even knew these existed until I ran across this photo today. I love my job. Thank you AHNC viewers!

Peace.