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Thursday, August 6, 2015

The Great Republican Debate Is Tonight

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11 questions that tonight’s Republican presidential debate will answer
Tonight's Republican presidential debate will almost certainly be the most watched primary debate in television history. With that many eyeballs on the 10 men who will take the debate stage in Cleveland, the stakes for every one of them are remarkably high.

The debate rules state that the highest-polling candidate is given the middle podium, which means Donald Trump will be center stage tomorrow night. Well, that and the fact that he was going to stand there anyway.- Jimmy Fallon

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Would anyone here care to blame the Benghazi terrorist attack on the actual, y'know, terrorists? #DebateQuestionsWeWantToHear - John Fugelsang

Obama Wants Voting Rights Given Back To The People. How Dare He?
President Obama will mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act Thursday by calling on Congress to restore the law and urging people to register to vote.

“We should have invaded Mexico."
- GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on the Iraq War
- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

The Republican debate and Jon Stewart's farewell show is on the same night. Seems fitting somehow. - AHNC

Prepare for Thursday's GOP debate with this primer from @RexHuppke, complete with Bingo card. http://trib.in/1UozSKh

Well, Of Course The GOP Is Blocking Clean Air
A GOP-controlled Senate committee has approved legislation to block the Obama administration from putting in place tough new standards on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Boy, if the House GOP won't honor Pope Francis b/c he's 'too liberal' they're really gonna hate Jesus.- John Fugelsang

Big Dog Encouraged Trump To Run For President
Former president Bill Clinton had a private telephone conversation in late spring with Donald Trump at the same time that the billionaire investor and reality-television star was nearing a decision to run for the White House, according to associates of both men.

Planned Parenthood does something conservatives will never accept: It gives poor people the same rights and care as everyone else.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

California Leads, America Follows
The Clean Power Plan announced Monday poses significant challenges for states that rely on coal-fired power plants for much of their electricity, but complying with the rules will be a breeze for California. That's because the state has practically eliminated coal from its energy portfolio and leads the nation with the toughest regulations to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

Abstinence education. The worst oxymoron since trickle-down economics.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

STOP THIS IRAN DEAL BEFORE OIL GOES ANY LOWER.- LOLGOP

France Needs To Unload Two Warships. Putin Mad.
France is looking for a buyer for two high-tech Mistral warships worth a reported $1.3 billion after confirming Thursday that it had canceled its controversial deal to deliver the vessels to Russia.

"Zimbabweans are left shaking heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than African people."- Goodwell Nzou

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I need to put food on my family.

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

If there is a will, there is a way.

Peace.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Shots Fired Again Near Mississippi Military Site

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Shots Fired Again Near Mississippi Military Site
Shots were fired for a second consecutive day near a military facility in southern Mississippi, but there are no reports of anyone being wounded, National Guard officials said Wednesday

The only thing we have to fear is fear mongers themselves. - LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Over the weekend in Iran, temperatures reached 165 degrees, one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on earth. In fact, it was so hot in Iran, American flags burst into flames on their own.- Jimmy Fallon

Mitch The Bitch O'Connell Puts Iran Deal
On Hold
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) aimed to pressure President Obama on the Iran nuclear deal ahead of his speech later Wednesday.
"It's clear that the deal is making members of both parties uneasy, and with good reason," the Republican leader said. "That's why I've called for a debate worthy of the importance of the agreement when the Senate takes it up in September. I hope the president will echo this tone of seriousness in his remarks later today.

Republican Shenanigans

GOP Debaters Won't Diss Each Other. Watch Out, Hillary!
The head of the Republican Party on Wednesday said its presidential candidates are unlikely to attack each other in the party's first official debate but instead are focused on ousting Democrats from the White House.

Donald Trump is still leading the Republican polls, with support from 19 percent of voters. Of course, it’s only a matter of time before Trump slips up and says something completely sane.- Seth Myers

Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans. - Andy Borowitz

Fiorina Says Hillary's Emails Were Hacked
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said on Wednesday that Hillary Clinton’s private email server was likely compromised during her tenure as secretary of State.
“Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand that technology well enough to know her server has most assuredly been hacked because Secret Service agents can’t protect it from being hacked,” Fiorina told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski during a telephone call to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Any politician who says "I don't know if President Obama is really Christian" has sorta just revealed they're really not. - John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

Jeb says "women's health care" and I hear Terri Schiavo. He has no freaking business making health care decisions for ANYONE.- Tina Dupuy

Grey's Anatomy Actor Comments On Silencing Trump
Ellen Pompeo, who plays Dr. Meredith Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy,” says her character would have a surgical (and probably painful) way of handling Donald Trump: "You could send him over to Meredith, and I could cut his vocal cords out.”

The fact checker for Thursday's ‪#‎GOPDebate‬ has already started drinking.- John Fugelsang

Amtrak Service Will Continue
A deal has been reached to save Amtrak service between Indianapolis and Chicago, after state officials considered cutting the rail line, the Indianapolis Star reports.
Indiana officials considered cutting the line because of a change to federal regulations that they said would have increased the cost of operating the route.

Jeb Bush says that "women's health" issues are overfunded. Clearly, the Republicans are not satisfied with the 47% of voters Romney alienated and are now shooting for 51%.- Andy Borowitz

Business/Tech News

Cell Phones Down In Four States For Five Hours.
If you live in the Southeast and couldn't place a call last night, you're not alone.
Cell phone customers of all four major carriers had no service Tuesday afternoon and into the evening in parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Service was restored Tuesday night.

HitchBOT, the lovable hitchhiking robot, hitched safely across Canada, made it to the East Coast of the United States, but unfortunately didn't get out of Philadelphia alive. To be fair, Philadelphia is the city that pelted Santa Claus with snowballs. They threw batteries at their own baseball team, and forced Will Smith to go live with his auntie and uncle in Bel Air.- James Corden

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

A perfectly timed photo.

Peace.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Trump: I would shut down government over Planned Parenthood

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Trump: I would shut down government over Planned Parenthood
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday he believes Republicans should shut down the government rather than fund Planned Parenthood, the health services group that is facing scrutiny after undercover videos of its officials emerged.

GOP base: We were promised a pony -- that would deport and defund everything. And if we don't get it, we're voting for Trump.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

SOMEONE STOP THIS IRAN DEAL BEFORE GAS GETS TOO CHEAP AND WE AVOID A WAR LARGER THAN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN COMBINED! - LOLGOP

Taliban In Turmoil
A top Taliban official announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a growing leadership struggle in the Afghan insurgent movement after the news of the death of leader Mullah Mohammad Omar last week.

According to the poll, there is widespread fear that, if the GOP debate were to be viewed in foreign countries, the cost to the United States’ prestige around the world would be incalculable. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

That video of Ted Cruz cooking and eating bacon from the barrel of a machine gun makes me comfortable giving him access to the red button.- Warren Holstein

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Subject: Planned Parenthood

Conservatives like to pretend they think rationally not emotionally
but the reality is all that “rational” thinking pretty much flies out the
window on anything related to abortion.
The controversy over Planned Parenthood is a prime example of this.
They’re incapable of separating their feelings about abortion from the facts
of what Planned Parenthood has been accused of.
The simple dispassionate fact of the matter is, if Planned Parenthood
is guilty of selling black market baby parts, then by the same logic, every
hospital and organization that handles organ donation is also guilty of
selling black market body parts and even whole bodies.

When someone donates an organ for transplant or medical research,
that organ doesn’t just magically appear at the final destination.
Someone has to deal with the gory details of getting it from point A to point B.
It can’t be just anyone and it can’t be by just any means.
These things have costs associated with them and we all know how much
conservatives hate the idea of “free stuff”, so someone has to pay those costs.

If conservatives think a price list for the handling of organ donation doesn’t exist then they’re being deliberately naïve.

The reality is, assuming they’re actually capable of thinking rationally and not emotionally,
is what was “uncovered” at Planned Parenthood is no different than the costs of handling any
other organ donation program.

Conservatives are just incapable of seeing that because they can’t see the facts through their
emotions over abortion.

-Greg

Thanks for writing, Greg. Yeah, you're right, there is no middle ground with anti-abortionists, same with gun nuts, immigration, War on Christmas...etc....
The GOP mantra should be...God, Guns, Barefoot & Pregnant.

Huckabee wants to use troops to stop women from having abortions. Your lips say freedom, but your ideas say fascism.- Tina Dupuy

Former Bush Official: Hack The Hackers
The U.S. government should deputize private companies to strike back against cyberattackers as a way to discourage widespread threats against the nation’s businesses, a former government official says.

Our analysis reveals that Obama's new "climate plan" calls for the burning of Bibles as a low-carbon energy source. - GOP Science Committee tweet

Rock The Voter News

There is such a thing as being too late on climate change, says Obama. RELATED: SC lowers Confederate Flag 150 years after end of Civil War.- The Daily Edge

California Burning
A wildfire that has devoured drought-parched terrain in northern California with remarkable speed raged on for a sixth day on Monday as evacuations expanded and firefighters began to gain some ground against the flames

3-D Printed Pills On The Market
In a world first, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3D-printed pill to be produced.
The FDA has previously approved medical devices - including prosthetics - that have been 3D printed.

Business/Tech News

Puerto Rico defaults on debt. Donald Trump proposes to solve debt crisis by "deporting all Puerto Ricans back to Mexico."- Tea Party Cat

Get The Frack Outta Here
Oklahoma regulators are imposing new restrictions on energy companies injecting wastewater underground, in the latest effort to stem a sharp increase in earthquakes.

The Egyptians stopped worshiping cats as Gods over 2000 years ago and nobody told the cats.- John Fugelsang ‏