Former Sarah Palin aide gets job as Trump's political director

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Donald Trump 2016: Former Sarah Palin aide gets job as Trump's political director
Donald Trump, who’s polling at the head of the 2016 Republican primary pack, has finally decided to hire a national political director.



Maybe more Republicans would believe in Climate Change if we'd refer to it as the Weather Rapture.- JokeBlogger.com

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Turkey onslaught on Kurds, after IS attack, fuels anger
• Chinese professor accused of spying by U.S. released on bail
• German prosecutors probe website for treason over spy story
• UK leader comes under fire for remarks on migrants
• Los Angeles passes law banning large-capacity gun magazines
• Local Iraq War veteran receives justice after VA clinic neglect

Note to Democrats: White House says it’ll be “closely watching” who votes for the #IranDeal; so will American people.- John Boehner

USA Sells Egypt Used F-16s
The United States Embassy in Cairo says the U.S. is delivering eight newer F-16 warplanes to Egypt as part of an ongoing military support package.









It seems like every day, another candidate comes out of the woodwork. In fact this week, a man from Iowa whose actual legal name is Deez Nuts, announced that he is running for president. Then Americans looked at the other candidates and said, “He can't be worse than DOZE nuts.”- Jimmy Fallon

Republican Shenanigans

• Vox's Jonathan Allen Implicates Trey Gowdy In The NY Times Botched Clinton Emails Story
• Jon Stewart Obliterates Ridiculous Fox News Coverage of his “Secret” Meeting with President Obama
• Sen. Grassley blocks judges, tells Schumer: 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it'
• Maine’s Tea Party governor insults half of his state with smug, hand-written note to constituent
• Jeb Bush: Humans contribute to climate change
• U.S. agency: Unable to contact dentist about Cecil the lion's death

Look at all this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies.- Republican presidential candidate, Marco Rubio tweet

In Your Face Confederates
 Four Confederate battle flags were found on the grounds of the Ebenezer Baptist Church near the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta on Thursday, and police and federal authorities were investigating.




'America has moved beyond race' said the white person.- John Fugelsang

Bulk of Trump's Campaign Funds Coming from Journalists, Comedians and Democrats. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Obama Calls for the U.S. to Make the World’s Fastest Computer
• Bernie Sanders' massive online house party hosts an estimated 100,000
• Hillary Clinton Losing Strength in New National Polling 

This might be a good time to remind the media that 'Militant Right-Wing Christian' is technically an oxymoron.- John Fugelsang

Climate Change In Costa Rica
The National Meteorological Institute recently announced that additional severe weather is in store for Costa Rica in coming months, caused by the ongoing effects of El Niño, which has yet to reach its peak in the country.

I hope this Minnesota dentist is put behind bars so he can never run for President. - Andy Borowitz




Business/Tech News

• Shell cutting 6,500 jobs, plans to start Arctic drilling in 2030 
• Keystone pipeline's fate to be decided during Obama's term
• Anti-Uber protests peaceful in Costa Rica, violent in Mexico City
• Rich US tourists kill hundreds of lions each year, and it's all legal
• Man wearing ninja mask robs pharmacy with sword

The Mafia have just gone digital. They've started a division called Pay Up Pal. - JokeBlogger.com

Someday I'll own my own basement.

The Millennial Scourge
Pity the millennial, poster child of the Great Recession. A popular meme portrays the typical millennial as a basement-dwelling economic loser, forever condemned to live in the nether regions of his parent’s house. Unfortunately, that meme is not without basis. The recession seem to have hit millennials particularly hard, making it even more difficult for young people to find good jobs and to establish their own households.








Medicare will survive longer than any party that aims to destroy it. Happy Birthday! - LOLGOP

7-30-65:  LBJ signs Medicare into law at a ceremony with Harry Truman who had pushed for national health care in 1948.

I'm following the NSA on Twitter, two can play that game. - JokeBlogger.com

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Odd News

• 300 years after shipwreck, family finds $1 million in gold
• Ocean found underneath China’s largest basin
• Cobra caught after taking residence in Houston luxury condo complex
• Wandering turkey causes stir at University of Michigan
• US court says drug-sniffing dog fails the smell test
• Soup kitchen offers free meal for return of Jesus statue

Time To Deflate Photo

Spencer Glacier, Alaska.



Peace.

Trump called breastfeeding mom 'disgusting'

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Trump called breastfeeding mom 'disgusting'
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump once told a breastfeeding mother she was “disgusting” during a deposition in a real estate case, The New York Times reported Wednesday.



Tom Cruise is here to promote the new "Mission: Impossible" movie, which I believe is all about Donald Trump's PR team.- Jimmy Fallon

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Afghan Officials Say Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Dead
• U.S. approves possible sale of $5.4 billion in missiles to Saudi Arabia
• Kerry seeks to allay Republicans on Iran pact side deal
• Ukraine struggles to control maverick battalions
• State Dept. Turns Over 5,000 More Pages to Benghazi Commission

Blamed for Benghazi:
Hillary Clinton
President Obama
CIA
Anti-Muslim video

Not blamed for Benghazi:
Terrorists who attacked embassy. - Paul Solomon

Dentist Lion Killer Loves Mitt Romney
Walter Palmer, who Tuesday became America’s Most Hated Dentist™ when it was revealed he killed a beloved Zimbabwean lion for sport, turns out to be a generous spirit — when it came to supporting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.



I think today I'll shoot a lion, play with a vaginal probe, carry a gun into a coffee shop, call a black kid "thug", and vote Republican. - Barracks Obama Tweet

What Is Obama's PR Team Up To?
The fight over the Iran deal was already overheated—and August hasn’t even begun. Get ready for an Obamacare-level national ad campaign and activist onslaught in the days to come.

On one side: The self-annointed defenders of the Holy Land. On the other: the “Voice of God” and his buddy Jack Black.

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump: Lawyer 'Not Speaking For Me' On Marital Rape
• Sarah Palin In A Trump Administration? Apparently So.
• Scott Walker's Campaign Stop In Philly Goes Hilariously Off The Rails
• Bill O’Reilly freaks out: #BlackLivesMatter ‘wants to tear down the country’
• Oklahoma Guv's Daughter Living In Trailer Parked Outside Guv's Mansion
• Christie: Smoke Your Weed While It's Still Legal 
• Conservatives lambaste Republican leaders over Planned Parenthood, Export-Import Bank

Fox News was hacked, causing an unusual amount of real news reports to be released.- Paul Solomon

Fast Tracking To Stop Funding Planned Parenthood
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is fast-tracking a bill to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood, after senators huddled in his office Tuesday to work out the details of a bill.

A CNN poll has Trump with 18 percent, ahead of Jeb Bush in second place with 15 percent. This is how we do things now. We find our spouses on "The Bachelorette" and our presidents on "The Apprentice."- Jimmy Kimmel

The Donald's Sons Shoot Big Game Too!
Cecil the lion certainly wasn't the first beautiful African creature slain by an American. Back in 2012, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump went big game hunting.

Donald Trump said this weekend that he is self-financing his campaign and is not beholden to donors and special interests. Or other nations. Or his party. Or the wealthy, or middle class, poor people, citizens or voters, humans, plants, animals…- Seth Myers

America's ranking in the world:
#1  Prisoners
#1  Gun ownership
#1  Killings by police
#1  Military spending
#94 Safest  countries




Rock The Voter News

• Sanders blames push to defund Planned Parenthood on 'smear campaign'
• Questions over Keystone XL dog Clinton on campaign trail
• Public comments top 1 million suggestions on new $10 bill

GOOD NEWS: We now have enough Republican candidates to form an excellent chain-gang.- Andy Borowitz

George Zimmerman's Parents Have Lawsuit Dismissed
A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the parents of George Zimmerman against comedian Roseanne Barr for causing emotional harm and violating their privacy.

Business/Tech News

• US crude stockpiles fall 4.2 mln barrels in latest week - EIA
• US pending home sales slip in June
• Cyber attack leaks Planned Parenthood employee information
• The Kochs freeze out Donald Trump 

This weekend I'm in North Carolina - where we can't trust a woman with her own uterus, but drunks can now bring guns into bars.- John Fugelsang

Congress To Take Month Long Paid Vacay!
Although the new Republican-dominated Congress can point to a number of bipartisan successes – including new fast-track Pacific Rim trade legislation and a long-overdue revision to Medicare’s reimbursement policies for doctors – a shocking array of must-pass fiscal and budget legislation will remain while lawmakers celebrate the month-long August holiday.




Snoop Dogg was arrested and released in Sweden this weekend on suspicion of using illegal drugs. Officials first became suspicious in 1991.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Airplane debris found near island could be from missing flight MH370
• Dentist accused of killing Cecil the lion ‘upset’ as hunter becomes hunted
• D.C.'s Most Beautiful People
• Summer snow turns Wyoming mountains into winter wonderland
• Diner en Blanc: New York leads world's biggest popup picnic
• Is The Spray-On Condom Finally Coming?

Time To Deflate Photo

A bear watching the train go by or he's hiding from the Palin hunting party. This photo was taken from a train in between Seward, Alaska and Denali last month.

Peace.

Scientists Warn Against Weaponized Artificial Intelligence

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Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons
More than 1,000 experts and leading robotics researchers sign open letter warning of military artificial intelligence arms race




China is hosting something called a World Cup soccer tournament for robots called “RoboCup 2015,” and the engineers' goal is for robots to face humans in the real World Cup by 2050. Then robots said, “Oh no, you'll be long gone by then.”- Jimmy Fallon

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Turkey's Erdogan: peace process with Kurdish militants impossible
• Three Libyan soldiers killed, 11 wounded in suicide bombing in Benghazi: medic
• Iran says will hold 'high-level talks' with EU
• Italian navy finds 11 dead migrants, rescues hundreds
• Pope slams nations which 'close the door' to migrants
• Honore: America's in denial about gun culture

Class war - n. the only war George W. Bush ever won. - LOLGOP

Most Americans Say No To Iran Deal
A majority of Americans want Congress to reject the recently-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran, even as President Barack Obama's approval rating continues to stand in net-positive territory for the second month in a row, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.




"A rapist. A thief. An immigrant. A dirty Mexican" - Donald Trump taking a Rorschach test

Republican Shenanigans

• Anti-abortion hackers claim to have breached Planned Parenthood
• Israeli ambassador condemns Huckabee's Holocaust comment
• Ted Cruz Sells His Soul to Frackers for $15 Million
• Fox’s Hume Calls Out Cruz For Sparing Trump, But Bashing McConnell
• Trump Attacks Walker After Guv's Fundraiser Calls Him 'DumbDumb'
• VIDEO: White People With Confederate Flags Crash Black Child's Birthday Party

Mike Huckabee exploits the holocaust to get attention in a race he'll never win and the attempts to out-trump Trump have officially begun.- John Fugelsang

STOP THE PRESSES INTERNET: Bipartisanship Happened
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) have found one thing they agree on.

The liberal senator and architect of the “Republican Revolution” on Monday appeared together at a panel event urging increased funding for federal research programs.

The Donald's Rape Karma
One of Donald Trump’s lawyers shockingly said Monday that it’s legal to rape your spouse.
Michael Cohen, who works for the Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul, made the outrageous remark while defending Trump from a decades-old allegation that he once forced himself upon his then-wife Ivana...





One GOP Congressman named Carlos Curbelo actually suggested that Donald Trump may be a “phantom candidate” that has been planted by the Democrats. The DNC strongly denied this – while Hillary said, “Crap, they figured it out! Take off the wig, Bill.”- Jimmy Fallon

Rock The Voter News

• Clinton Campaign Releases Horror Film Montage Of Climate-Denying Presidential Candidates
• NYT Publishes A Lengthy Editors' Note About Its Mistaken Clinton Email Story

Bernie At The Bayou
KENNER, LA. — Sen. Bernie Sanders wrapped up a weekend campaign swing in Louisiana with a typically fiery speech railing against income inequality and touching on issues of racism and criminal justice during a rally that drew close to 4,000 people to a suburban New Orleans convention center Sunday night.

Republicans are so upset about abortion that they want to deny millions of poor women birth control.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

• Oil Prices Turn Positive 
• Court Smacks Down Pharmacy That Refused To Fill Prescriptions On Religious Grounds
• $15 minimum wage divides Dems
• VW surpasses Toyota as world's largest automaker in first half of 2015

Trump was asked if he owed McCain an apology.
He said no.
Of course If Trump thought he actually owed anybody he'd just file for bankruptcy. - Steve Marmel




Jeb: Truth Twister
On the campaign trail, Jeb Bush has repeatedly emphasized his record overseeing Florida’s boom economy as the state’s governor. He says it’s an example of an economy that created a huge number of jobs and benefited the middle class — an example of what he could do as president. “I know how to do this,” he said in Maitland, Fla., on Monday.




Bill Cosby is the most charismatic and entertaining necrophiliac of our time.- Tina Dupuy

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#2 Won The Logo Poll With 61% Of The Votes! Thank you for participating.

Now I have to figure out how to get this wonderful logo into the masthead.


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Odd News

• Zimbabwe: American being sought for lion poaching
• Former 41-pound fat cat in Texas slims down to 19 pounds
• Baby Owl Questioned In Owlbsolutely Adorable Police Encounter
• ATM workers forget bag of cash, man drives off with $150K
• Barbecue Smoke Sparks Feud Between Florida Neighbors
• Cocaine, Other Illicit Drugs Found In Ontario Drinking Water: Study

Time To Deflate Photo

My high school friend and his wife drove from Florida to Alaska and back. I asked them if I could share some of their wonderful photos with you. This one is at Denali National Park in Alaska.

Peace.