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White House guest list for the pope irks some conservatives

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White House guest list for the pope irks some conservatives
With today’s arrival of Pope Francis in the United States, there is simmering controversy over the Obama administration’s guest list for his visit to the White House, especially among conservative commentators who believe that the president should not have invited people at odds with the Vatican’s positions on gay clergy, same-sex marriage and abortion.




First Republican who calls the Pope a "PINO" wins a copy of Ann Coulter's new book "Shut Up, Foreigner."- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• US military accused of telling soldiers to overlook Afghan abuse of boys
• Afghan Taliban seize Humvees for sneak attacks and propaganda
• European Union Ministers Meet Over Plan to Distribute Refugees

Trump's playbook: attack a group (Mexicans, women, Muslims) and then say you love them. Trump is America's abusive boyfriend.- Andy Borowitz

The Ultra Religious GOP Will Not Like The Pope's Message. 
 Pope Francis was to due to arrive in the United States on Tuesday bearing a message that the power and wealth that Washington symbolizes should be made to serve humanity, and not the other way around.




97% of climate scientists believe we can do something to prevent global warming. 100% of Popes and 0% of GOP candidates for president agree.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

• Pope Francis’s Visit Spells Trouble for Republican Presidential Candidates
• Christie: Leader Of NJ Guard Never Told Me He Was Too Overweight To Serve! 
• Carson: Walker Wasn't Talking About Me When He Said Other GOPers Should Quit 
• Carson Was Dropped From Christian Event Over His Own Religious Beliefs
• Scott Walker's exit sets off Republican feeding frenzy
• Franklin Graham: Obama will have 'blood of children' on his hands if he vetoes Planned Parenthood defunding

CNN wisely called it 'The Republican Debate' rather than 'This 3-hr Commercial for Democrats.'- John Fugelsang

Wake Up And Smell The Bushes
The big news in Texas right now is that George P Bush, son of a JebBush, got elected Land Commissioner in Texas and is violating the law, hiring his friends and family, not posting jobs, and has turned the Texas General Land office to a frat house / political payoff machine that even has his retired Republican predecessor aghast.




To easiest way to win the GOP primary is to offend the exact people you need to win the general election.- LOLGOP

Freedom from other people's religions is one thing the Founders nailed almost from the beginning. Nice to see the GOP 3 centuries behind.- LOLGOP

Fox Feud With Trump Accelerates
Real-estate magnate Donald Trump's feud with Fox News is apparently back on again.
The Republican presidential front-runner had two seemingly pleasant Fox News interviews on Monday.

Rock The Voter News

• President Obama Blasts Fox News In Speech
• Bernie Sanders would be the big winner in new public-funding model 
• Hillary Clinton rolls out drug price plan as one drug cost rises 5000%

Bernie Sanders had 27,500 in the sport arena in Los Angeles In August, 11,000 in Phoenix, 28,000 in Portland on a Sunday. A guy in his 70s filling stadiums? Who does he think he is, a Rolling Stone?- Stephen Colbert

Obama Has Broken Another Record
Friday afternoon announcements in Washington are usually aimed at attracting as little attention as possible, but last Friday was different. President Obama’s decision to nominate Eric Fanning — an openly gay man — to head a branch of the military which only four years ago did not allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, was both historic and attention-grabbing.

And it underscored an often-overlooked feature of the Obama presidency: Obama has presided over the most demographically diverse administration in history, according to a new analysis of his top appointments

Because the FEC does not let candidate names appear in the title of a Super PAC, Carly Fiorina’s organization has started claiming its name CARLY for America is an acronym that stands for Conservative, Authentic, Responsive Leadership for You and for America. And I think that shows her campaign is full of Strategic, Honorable, and Interesting Tactics. - Seth Myers

Remember General Petraeus?
Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus apologized to Congress on Tuesday for sharing classified information with his biographer-mistress, then pivoted from personal to battlefield policy and labeled the current U.S. strategy for fighting Islamic State in the Middle East "inadequate."

Business/Tech News

• Oil falls 2 percent as concern over demand bites
• 'Dazed and confused': Dow falls 250 on uncertainty
• Greek yogurt billionaire fills his plants with refugees
• Volkswagen Says 11 Million Cars Worldwide Are Affected in Diesel Deception

Jeb Bush's timing is impeccable. Right as Volkswagen's cheating is showing us my we need regulations, he wants to gut them.- LOLGOP

White Collar Criminal Gets 28 Years
The former owner of a peanut company in Georgia was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds, a rare instance of jail time in a food contamination case.




Bumped into Sean Penn today. His work in Haiti continues without fanfare.  He puts his time and money there without reward and I applaud him. - James Woods

Clarke Gable joined the US Army Air Forces in 1942 and spent most of 1943 in RAF Polebrook with the 351st Bomb Group.

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Odd News

• Puppy Shoots Florida Man In Self-Defense
• Sheriff: Lawyers can keep bras on while entering Maine jail
• Domino's Accidentally Delivers $1,300 In Cash Instead Of Chicken Wings
• PETA sues to give monkey the copyright of selfie photos
• Hawaii man bit by shark swims to shore, posts video online

Time To Deflate Photo

Dyrhólaey, Iceland, a place I don't plan to ever see from that vantage point. Yow.

Peace.

Trump Is Already Declaring His Next Book A Massive, Bestselling Success

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Trump Is Already Declaring His Next Book A Massive, Bestselling Success
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to have his next book, which is still untitled, released on Oct. 27, according to a news release Monday by his publisher, Simon & Schuster.




More Americans think lipless Canadian Rafael "Ted" Cruz was born in America than Obama. That's all you need to know about American voters.- Mrs. Betty Bowers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Car bomb in Baghdad neighborhood kills 8 people
• Some Iraqis ditch fight against Islamic State for life in Europe
• Israel, Russia to coordinate military action on Syria: Netanyahu
•  Russia sends drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria - U.S. officials
• Most Palestinians no longer support two-state solution
• Done deal for Iran nuke pact, but debate still in Congress

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani have revealed that he used to have an Ashley Madison account. He was already gittin’ some but he wanted to Gitmo.- Seth Myers



Planting The Seeds
 Syria's civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of crop seeds from a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said...

The best way to force the rich to change their greedy ways is to refuse to serve them. Chauffeurs, busboys & maids could start a revolution. - Jim David




Republican Shenanigans

• Donald Trump: Is Jeb Bush High?! (VIDEO)
• Trump launches late night Twitter assault on Fiorina mocking her business experience
• Huckabee: Obama Is 'The Most Anti-Christian' President In US History 
• Mike Huckabee: Pope’s White House visit is a ‘cattle call for gay and pro-abortion activists’
• Carly Fiorina: Opponents must ‘prove to me’ they watched my non-existent fetus videos
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Opposing a Muslim president makes Ben Carson a ‘real person’
• Host Andy Samberg slams ‘racist’ Donald Trump and ‘intolerant’ Kim Davis in Emmys’ opener

The Emmys are a lot like the GOP debates, except if you say something racist on the Emmys it doesn't help your career.- LOLGOP

Being A Bush Means You Never Have To Apologize
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) criticized Hillary Clinton on Sunday for a "disgraceful" new ad from a liberal group that criticizes former President George W. Bush and highlights Jeb Bush's defense of his brother.




Rich women get D & C's; poor women get abortions. - Cindy Carter

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Now that he's said he believes in global warming "Is the Pope Catholic?" isn't a rhetorical question anymore. It's a Fox News' headline. - OhNoSheTwitnt

Rock The Voter News

• Huckabee criticizes Obama's 'classless' treatment of pope 
• Bernie Sanders speaks at UNH, criticizes Ben Carson 
• Poll: Hillary Clinton's lead over Bernie Sanders grows

Can a Muslim be President of the United States of America? In a word: Yes. Now let's move on. -Hillary Clinton

Trump Will Forego Presidential Salary
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday that he would refuse to take a government salary if he is elected President of the United States.

So Republicans have said a Muslim can't be president or build a clock but "the biggest discrimination going on is against" Christians?- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

• US crude up 4 percent on lower stockpile bets; Brent spread narrows
• Ex-hedge funder buys rights to AIDS drug and raises price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
• Macy's hiring fewer holiday season workers
• China, Russia to sign jet agreement by end-2015: newspaper

Just bought #gas for $1.75 per gallon while listening to Spice Girls on the radio. Not sure my location, but I think I'm driving thru 1998.- Eric Bransteen

Hillary Tweets, Stocks Fall
Biotechnology stocks fell Monday after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted Monday that she would release a plan to combat the high cost of prescription drugs. 



The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.- Kurt Vonnegut

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Odd News

• Jimmy Morales used to do blackface comedy. He’s now poised to be Guatemala’s president.
• Police: Robber tells pizza clerk he's having a 'bad day'
• Football team's mascot sheep dies on team's big day
• Rabbits Are Taking Over This Small Island City
• Tourist Dies At Taj Mahal After Falling While Taking A Selfie
• World's Luckiest Pedestrian Narrowly Escapes A Sheet Of Falling Glass

Time To Deflate Photo

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of small island cays of the Great Exuma Island, Bahamas and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them. For astronauts, this is one of the most recognizable points on the planet. Image/NASA

Peace.