Thursday, July 10, 2014

Dems Roll Out Bill To Overturn Hobby Lobby: Women 'Tired Of Being Targeted'








Dems Roll Out Bill To Overturn Hobby Lobby: Women 'Tired Of Being Targeted'
Congressional Democrats rolled out legislation on Wednesday to overturn the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling and restore the legal right to cost-free contraceptive coverage for women in their employer insurance plans.




A well-regulated vagina being necessary to a good craft store, the right to decide which medications women deserve shall not be abridged.- LOLGOP








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A Ugandan police officer claims he was forced to shoot an aggressive tortoise that attacked him while he was drinking tea at home. In his defense, he had to act quickly, or move over a few feet and weigh his options for another hour.- Seth Myers







U.S. And Cuba Talking, Finally.
 U.S. and Cuban government officials were meeting in Washington on Wednesday for the latest round of migration talks, a rare chance for dialogue between two countries that have not had full diplomatic relations for more than five decades.



If you're cutting food stamps to buy more missiles, you're going to have to stop pretending your concerns are religious.- LOLGOP







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The President shall be removed from office for treason, bribery, or other high crimes including being a Democrat who won a second term. - LOLGOP






Boehner Says No To Border Security
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday that Republicans needed to study President Barack Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency spending request for border security before passing judgment on it.



Weird. Speaking at conferences where the Confederacy is celebrated doesn't help you with the black vote. - LOLGOP







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The difference between your guns and birth control is someone is actually coming for your birth control.- LOLGOP



Fracking Up Texas
A Texas waste hauling company that is already facing civil charges for a March accident that spread toxic drilling waste along a rural road could also be facing criminal charges.




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Ted Cruz is upset that there are so many refugees who would like to come make a life in America the way his father has.- LOLGOP



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China Says U.S. Needs To Lead
China's finance minister said Wednesday that the country is not planning any new stimulus measures and it is up to the United States to drive the global economy.



If Brazil were the GOP, it would be suing Germany today for not respecting its powers.- LOLGOP






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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

House GOP wants to spend $3.3M on Benghazi probe







House GOP wants to spend $3.3M on Benghazi probe
House Republicans have called for spending up to $3.3 million this year on the special select committee tasked with investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.



The GOP's latest Benghazi hearing will cost $3 million, which is pretty cheap for a daily Fox News show.- LOLGOP







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SCOTUS' Pandora's Box Is Exploding
If corporations are people with religious rights, why aren’t Guantanamo Bay detainees?

That’s the central premise of a new lawsuit, filed on behalf of two Guantanamo Bay detainees last week.

“If, under our law, Hobby Lobby is a ‘person’ with a right to religious freedom, surely Gitmo detainees are people too,” Cori Crider, the detainees’ lawyer said in a statement.





Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus. - Sarah Silverman








War On Obama Continues...
Sarah Palin on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the impeachment of President Obama, writing in a Breitbart op-ed that the influx of young illegal immigrants over the southern border "is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, 'no mas.' "




I STAND WITH SARAH PALIN. IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH OBAMA AND I BELIEVE IMPEACH IS FRENCH FOR DEPORT. -  LOLGOP







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The Daily Caller being duped by the Cuban government is actually the most Latino outreach Republicans have done in years.- LOLGOP



Cruzin' To Mississippi
Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped into Mississippi’s political drama, a sign that the deepening dispute over the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff is seeping into the national GOP.






Christie snubbed Sandy Hook families, defunded Planned Parenthood & robbed pensions or, as the GOP calls it, he's moving to the center.- LOLGOP



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My favorite part of the bible is the part where Jesus sends the scared Guatemalan and Honduran children back to Mexico.- Nick Baumann









Obama Wants To Stamp Refugee Children: "ReturnTo Sender"
Mr. Obama is under intense pressure from Republicans to show that he is cracking down on the new wave of illegal immigration. The White House has said it intends to ask Congress for more money to more efficiently return the children to their countries. The administration has also said it wants Congress to give officials more authorities to process the children faster.





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If you're against sex ed, birth control coverage & health care for all, you're not against abortion. You're against women not being pregnant. - LOLGOP



Meanwhile, Back In Nicargua
 A Nicaraguan committee approved a proposed route on Monday for a $40 billion shipping channel across the Central American country that would compete with the Panama Canal.








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Migrant Worker Abuse In Maine
Two Maine companies and a labor recruiter are being sued for allegedly mistreating Haitian migrant workers during the state's wild blueberry harvest in 2008.



A simple way to end all of our deficit worries: Stop paying the rich to be rich.- LOLGOP







We need to face the fact that the 2008 GOP nominee for vice president may not be qualified to serve on The View.- LOLGOP







Pink Floyd announced their first new album in 20 years now that Obama has legalized pot everywhere.- Top Conservative Cat




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Monday, July 7, 2014

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 5 Years Ago Sarah Palin Quit Her Job As Governor




Sarah Palin Is Publicly Auditioning To Join 'The View'
Sarah Palin is dropping subtle hints that she might want to be a panelist on "The View." And by "subtle hints," we mean that she is explicitly saying in an interview that she might want to be a panelist on "The View."



Sarah Palin has basically decided to become B-roll for documentaries about the worst reactions to the first black president. - LOLGOP







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You Go, Girls!
More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.

Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday.








The GOP has been extremely successful in its outreach to corporations, fertilized eggs and adults who yell at buses filled with children.- LOLGOP








Germany Is Pissed At US
 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday allegations that a German man had worked as a double agent for U.S. intelligence were serious and, if true, were a clear contradiction of what cooperation between partners is supposed to be about.








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GOP House Gives Finger To SEC
A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Friday it should not have to comply with a federal regulator's demand for documents sought for an insider-trading probe involving the staff director of a subcommittee and a lobbyist.







What could possibly go wrong when people who don't believe science get to randomly start deciding that some birth control  cause abortions?- LOLGOP



Uh Oh. The GOP Is Going After The Federal Reserve
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has set a hearing for legislation to reform the Federal Reserve.







If life begins at fertilization, shouldn't conservatives want maternity leave to begin right then -- you know, just to be safe.- LOLGOP




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Federal Judge Blogs Curse Word At SCOTUS
Writing on his personal blog, a federal judge appointed to the bench by President George H. W. Bush advised the Supreme Court to avoid “divisive cases” in the future that do more harm than good — such as the recent Hobby Lobby decision – before offering a more blunt suggestion: shut the f*ck up.



Hi, I'm an angry political person on Twitter & to show the moral validity of my arguments I shall now call you a 'tard.'- John Fugelsang





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Unionizing College Football
Northwestern University urged the National Labor Relations Board Thursday to reverse a regional director's decision that classified the university's football players as university employees, therefore allowing them to unionize.



"I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."

It's in the Employee Handbook/ Bible! - LOLGOP







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Ooops. Fracking Does Cause Earthquakes
A study published in July 4, 2014 issue of Science determined that the surge in earthquake activity in what had been tectonically calm Oklahoma is a direct result of hydrofracking and waste-water injection.




If you call corporations people and immigrants "illegal," you're going to get *all* the corporations to vote for you. - LOLGOP






WTO Rules In Favor Of Obama, Not China
China failed to overturn a U.S. law targeting unfair trade subsidies on Monday, when the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body said it did not have enough information to uphold China's appeal against an earlier WTO ruling.

China had claimed that the U.S. "Public Law 112-99", also known as the GTX legislation, which was signed by President Barack Obama in March 2012, broke world trade rules, but a WTO dispute panel ruled against it in March.



Fertilized eggs are people but child refugees are not.

Welcome to America.- LOLGOP




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