Catholic bishops risk own-goal by attacking Biden on abortion rights

Catholic bishops risk own-goal by attacking Biden on abortion rights

... administration, Biden is under fire from American Catholic bishops who argue his support for abortion rights should make him ineligible to receive communion ...

I’m grateful to Biden for so many things, including the ability watch The Handmaid’s Tale as entertainment, not as a potential foreboding reality. - Emily Bandwin

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• San Francisco police arrest man suspected of stabbing two Asian women at bus stop
• Infected man faked certificate, got on plane
• Texas official asks judge to void rules requiring COVID-19 tests for state Capitol visitors
• Fauci: Authorization for Pfizer shot in teens coming 'within days'
• US birthrate drops to record low amid pandemic fallout

Liz Cheney should take Kevin McCarthy quail hunting. - Irishrygirl

 

Well, Well, Well. Here Comes Da Judge.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release a March 2019 legal memo clearing former President Trump of potential obstruction of justice charges following the Mueller investigation, with the judge accusing former Attorney General William Barr and agency lawyers of deceiving the public.

The short version: the Mueller Report found that Trump committed 11 federal felonies and Barr covered it up, exactly as many of us said 2 years ago. For 2 years, those who said the Mueller Report found crimes took s*** because Barr lied to a federal court. - Seth Abramson

 

It's way too underreported that Victoria Toensing phones were also seized by the FBI. - Scott Steadman

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Goes After 'Warmonger' Liz Cheney, 'Gutless' Mitch McConnell' and Yes, Even Mike Pence in Latest Election Harangue
• Mark Meadows Calls for Government Regulation After Trump's Facebook Ban Decision: 'Time to Break Up Big Tech'
• Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Defends Liz Cheney: Purging Her for Telling the Truth Would 'Diminish the Party'
• Ex-Bush Speechwriter Blasts 'Immoral' GOP: 'To Be a Loyal Republican, One Must Be Either a Sucker or a Liar'
• Brian Kilmeade Roasts 6th Grader For Saying Biden is Doing a Better Job Than Trump on Covid
• Fox's Hegseth Goes After Ilhan Omar in Segment on Refugees: She Returned 'American Goodwill With Grievance, Not Gratitude'
• Tucker Carlson casually maligns David Frum, who responds by deconstructing his former friend's 'cowardly' act
• GOP candidate whines that media won't cover his ideas after campaign stunt involving a bear backfires

McCarthy Blasts Liz Cheney For Refusing To Accept Trump As Her Personal Savior. - Andy Borowitz

 

Please, CNN, Get Rid of Santorum.

CNN analyst Rick Santorum's claim that he misspoke during a recent speech where he said there was “nothing here” when the United States was founded did little to diminish anger against him. The National Congress of American Indians on Tuesday renewed calls for CNN to fire the former Pennsylvania senator. The group's president, Fawn Sharp, called Santorum arrogant for comments made to Chris Cuomo on Monday night. 

It turns out Republicans don't understand the 1st Amendment any better than the 2nd. - Middle Age Riot

 

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Rock The Voter News

• President Joe Biden Visits D.C. Taqueria Las Gemelas to Tell Owners They’ll Receive Grant Money
• Vice President Kamala Harris makes first Wisconsin visit since taking office
• VP Kamala Harris meeting with small business owners in RI
• Haaland: Santorum's Native American comments 'unfortunate'

The only way expanded background checks take away your 2nd amendment rights is if you're:

1. a criminal, 

2. insane, or 

3. a terrorist.  

And if you're all 3 of those things, you're probably already a lobbyist for the NRA. - John Fugelsang

 

 

Liz Cheney Is Just Gonna Sit Back and Watch

Liz Cheney is not fighting to hold onto her job as House GOP conference chair, even as top Republican leaders openly campaign to replace her in the No. 3 spot.

To the frustration of many fellow Republicans, Cheney has continued to clearly state her positions on Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and on the Jan. 6 vote to certify Trump's loss. And Cheney has been telling people that if holding onto her leadership role requires having to lie or stay quiet, she doesn’t believe that’s a price worth paying...

Just a gentle reminder that somewhere right now, George Clooney is quietly toiling away at his docuseries to expose what really happened with Jim Jordan during the OSU Wrestling scandal. - Jake Lobin

 

 

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Business/Tech News

• Poll: Americans back new spending, tax hikes on wealthy, but remain wary of economic impact
• Twitter CFO Says Trump Won't Be Un-Suspended No Matter What Facebook Says, Takes Shot at Oversight Board
• Health care and prescription drug costs top voter concerns in new poll
• Peloton recalling all treadmills over safety concerns
• New homes cost $36,000 more because of an epic shortage of lumber

 

President Biden: "I think it's 35 or 30 corporations didn't pay a single solitary penny last year and they're Fortune 500 companies. They made $400 billion. They paid no taxes. How can that make any sense?"

 

Trump Banned From Facebook For Another 6 Months
Former President Donald Trump will remain banned on Facebook for now, the Facebook Oversight Board announced Wednesday, adding that Facebook must review the matter in the next six months to determine a defined penalty.

Trump Says Social Network He Just Told Eric and Don Jr. To Invent Will Be Much Bigger Than Facebook. - Andy Borowitz

I admit it: part of me was hoping the second vaccine would turn me into a handsome patriotic super soldier. - Conan O'Brien

 

 

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Odd News

• Ikea is giving away a tiny home on wheels
• Debris from China space rocket likely to fall in international waters
• Website's 'nap reviewer' dream job pays $1,500 for 30 naps
• Wine aged in space for more than a year expected to sell for $1 million
• Scientists say trillions of cicadas will emerge from 15 U.S. states

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Friends.

Peace.

“I've had it with her’: McCarthy criticism of Liz Cheney caught on hot mic

“I've had it with her’: McCarthy criticism of Liz Cheney caught on hot mic

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught on a hot mic criticizing Rep. Liz Cheney, whose position in the GOP caucus is in peril following repeated criticisms of former President

It is fascinating that the right is saying Dick Cheney’s daughter isn’t horrible enough for them. - Tony Posnanski

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• U.S. spike in domestic terrorism 'keeps me up at night,' attorney general says
• Garland emphasizes national security, civil rights in budget hearing
• Armed suspect shot outside of CIA headquarters dies, FBI says
• Rick Santorum could not have been more wrong about Native American contributions to U.S. culture

Santorum is Latin for asshole. -- former Sen. Bob Kerrey

 

The Chinese Crowdfunded The Proud Boys. Yeah, You Read That Right.

The donations started coming in around 10 p.m. on Dec. 17.

A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000 to a fundraiser on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo for members of the extremist street gang the Proud Boys.

The BIG LIE is just like the Birth Certificate lie.

The 2020 election was not stolen for Biden and Obama was born in Hawaii. - Scott Huffman

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Rick Santorum Squirms and Says He 'Misspoke' as Chris Cuomo Grills Him on Comments About Native Americans
• Tucker Carlson Goes After Kevin McCarthy for Being 'Roommates' WIth Frank Luntz: 'Mystery Solved!'
• Tucker Carlson Rants About Colleges Requiring Vaccines: ‘They Will Have Total Power Over Your Body and Your Mind Forever’
• Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump for Roasting Mitt Romney in a MEMO: 'We'll Make Sure to Fax it' to Him
• Joe Walsh Blasts GOP's 'Surreal' Treatment of Liz Cheney: 'To Be Viable in Today's Republican Party You Have to Lie'
• Dominion says Sidney Powell should face accountability for voter fraud conspiracies: 'She leveled falsehoods as deadly serious assertions of fact'
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issues executive order suspending all local COVID-19 restrictions in state

Still haven’t gotten used to someone named Cheney being opposed to a lie. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

Anybody But DeSantis!

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, who served as Florida governor for a single term before running other offices, is seeking the state’s highest office once again — this time as a Democrat.

After releasing videos Tuesday confirming his candidacy, Christ held an outdoor rally that sought to contrast his record with that of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis Says Florida Will Lift Coronavirus Restrictions to Focus on Voting Restrictions. - Andy Borowitz

 

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden shakes up vaccine strategy as he sets new goal
• Biden formally lifting refugee cap to 62,500
• Why do the Carters look so tiny alongside Joe Biden and his wife Jill in this picture?

Dear Republicans: Donald Trump f*cking lost. Put on your big boy (and big girl) pants and get over it. - Stephen King

 

 

Fake Christian Alert! Fake Christian Alert!

A Christian pastor named Robin Bullock has told his congregation that it's a sin to refer to Joe Biden as "president."

A video of Bullock's sermon, reposted by Right Wing Watch, shows the pastor telling his congregants that they should pray for Biden.

The original Constitution counted black folks as 3/5ths of a person.

Today’s GOP consider that far too generous. - Tea Pain

 

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If Fox News were around in 1955, we’d still have polio. - Helen Kennedy

Business/Tech News

• MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL players groups voice support for pro-union bill
• U.S. House panel to discuss low-carbon fuel with airline, biofuel industries
• After $53 billion in European sales last year, Amazon paid $0 in corporate taxes
• Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce

Romney's actually a rather sinister capitalist;

the kind that suckered the GOP for decades

until a racist landlord from queens did it better. - John Fugelsang

Good For Jake Tapper! He Doesn't Want Liars On His Show Anymore.

CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday questioned why any Republicans who promote false election fraud theories should be given any airtime.

“If they’re willing to lie about Joe Biden wanting to steal your hamburgers, and QAnon and the Big Lie about the election, what are they not willing to lie about?” Tapper said. “Why should I put any of them on TV?”

Americans, do you ever just look back at the last four years and go “what the actual f*ck was that?” 

Because I’m not American and I do that all the time. - Ida Skibenes

 

 

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Odd News

• Maryland woman sets house on fire with person inside, watches from chair on front lawn, officials say
• It’s Star Wars Day, and a meteor shower is on its way to Seattle-area skies
• Rocket debris from China's space station launch is hurtling back to Earth — and scientists aren't sure where it will land
• Belgian farmer mistakenly moves country's border with France
• Marshmallow launched 225 feet, 10 inches, caught in man's mouth

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I sure hope that raven found that earring on the ground and not plucked from someone's ear.
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping..." - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Peace.

CNN’s Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s ‘Sad Old Elvis Act’ At Mar-A-Lago: ‘Like Watching the Hall of Discredited Presidents at Disney World’

CNN’s Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s ‘Sad Old Elvis Act’ At Mar-A-Lago: ‘Like Watching the Hall of Discredited Presidents at Disney World’

CNN Newsroom anchor Jim Acosta mocked former President Donald Trump for putting on a “sad old Elvis act” at Mar-a-Lago, referring to a video clip of Trump halfheartedly repeating his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

I’d like to see Mar-a-Lago turned into a prison. - Mayo tweet

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• McConnell: 'The bipartisanship of last year has broken down' because Dems are 'stretching out the pandemic'
• Experts warn low vaccine levels among police officers are looming public health risk
• DHS weighs outside contracts to monitor extremists online

America won’t ever attain “Herd Immunity” because we have too much “Herd Stupidity.” - David Leavitt 

 

The Dumbing Down of Children Continues...
A fifth-grade math and science teacher peddled a bogus conspiracy theory Wednesday to students at Centner Academy, a private school in Miami, warning them that they should not hug parents who had been vaccinated against the coronavirus for more than five seconds because they might be exposed to harmful vaccine shedding.

Crazy that Matt Gaetz’s Venmo and text exchanges don’t even raise an eyebrow in a party that’s generated incredible conspiracy mileage out of “child trafficking”... - Cyrus McQueen

 

The people who preached herd immunity in 2020

are now the reason we won't reach herd immunity in 2021. - John Fugelsang

 

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP Congressman Defends Liz Cheney: She May Not Fit in Current GOP Because 'She Isn't Going to Lie to People'
• Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Botches Pledge of Allegiance at Lin Wood Rally
• House Republicans request hearing with Capitol Police Board for first time since 1945
• Trump lawyers up after Capitol cops sue him for inciting MAGA mob
• Chris Wallace Presses GOP Senator on Trump-Era Tax Cuts: ‘What’s Wrong With’ Corporations, Wealthy People Paying More?
• Brian Kilmeade Goes OFF on Biden Adviser's 'Unbelievably Insulting' Caution on School Reopening
• Pelosi's archbishop calls for Communion to be withheld from public figures supporting abortion rights
• Sen. Mitt Romney booed at Utah GOP convention
• Experts call for federal monitors of Arizona Senate election audit, citing violations of voting laws

The fact that Republicans are fighting against people like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney is so monumentally stupid and it will help Democrats. - Jason Elias

 

 

Dear Lord, Florida's Governor Is Taking Away People's Right To Be Safe
Gov. Ron DeSantis kept his promise and signed a bill into law Monday that bars businesses, schools and government entities across Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

The Arizona state Senate has completed their audit and has proven that Donald Trump did in fact win the Emmys. - Jeremy Newberger

 

Republicans never call it socialism when they give away trillions to the rich.- Andy Borowitz

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Thousands of Fact-checkers Laid Off In Biden’s First Hundred Days. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Not The 'Enemy of the People': Biden Salutes 'Fierce Bravery of Journalists' on World Press Freedom Day
• DNC Raises $15.4 Million Online During Biden's First 100 Days
• Bill Nelson has been sworn in as NASA Administrator
• Most in new poll say government should help Americans age in homes, not institutions
• Joe Manchin says he opposes DC statehood bill, dealing blow to efforts to make nation's capital the 51st state

Republicans Lack Critical Thinking Skills, In Case You Haven't Noticed.

Some Florida Republicans are reportedly growing concerned that a new bill curbing the use of mail-in voting could end up backfiring on the party...After all, the bill will be "curtailing a practice that millions of state Republicans use," the Post writes, and Republicans are worried their "political fortunes are in peril" as a result.

The idea that you can’t add states to the Union is pretty much undercut by a flag with more than 13 stars. - Dan Rather

 

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Business/Tech News

•  Cruz, Rubio ramp up criticisms of big business
• Facebook Set to Decide Whether Trump Will Be Allowed Back on Platform
• Chip shortage forces production cuts at two Ford plants in Germany
• German Oktoberfest canceled again due to COVID-19

Private equity Buys Yahoo! and AOL.. I guess they'll figure out how to get people to pay for email. 
Verizon announced on Monday that it is selling Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private-equity firm Apollo Global Management. Verizon made the deal official just a few days after news reports said that Verizon had put Yahoo and AOL up for sale. The media division will be known just as "Yahoo" after the sale is completed later this year.

From The Archives: Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs. - The Onion

From My Archives, 7 Years Ago During The Benghazi Hearings

I’m waiting for the first great pandemic literary novel—LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID. - Stephen King

 

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Odd News

• Good samaritan jumps off bridge to rescue infant after violent crash
•  Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people
• North Carolina man breaks record with 3,050 pushups in one hour
• Police find reported COVID-19 violation was a mannequin
• Bird flocks become unwelcome guests in California homes

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Sunflower seeds growing into sunflowers while still in the sunflower.

Peace.