I'm taking a sick day today. I will be back online tomorrow, Thursday, November 13, 2014. Thank you for visiting.

Peace.

I've met two types of Veterans...

America's Melting Pot of Veterans: A Shared Passion for Freedom

Today we honor American veterans for their service during wars throughout our nation's history. But if your idea of an American veteran doesn't include those who fought for freedom under different flags, you may be overlooking some of the hardest-fighting soldiers of all.

Our own Veterans are from all over this big beautiful world we live in. How cool is that?

Apparently pointing out how sh*tty some vets have it is a great way to be called names by adults who claim to care about vets.- John Fugelsang

In One Felled Swoop, China Slaps Putin With A Velvet Glove
It was a fleeting moment, but one that Chinese censors were quick to snuff out.
At an APEC event to watch the fireworks in Beijing on Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin created a few of his own by slipping a shawl over the shoulders of Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

FORTUNE COOKIE: May your Katrinas be like Obama's and not Bush's, that way no one will get Ebola and 10 million people will gain insurance.- LOLGOP

I found this related items notice on Facebook. Compare Obama and Bush's likes. How the hell did the Republicans win? The Democrats should have compared Bush to Obama in the last election. 

"Net Neutrality Is Obamacare For The Internet" - proving that Ted Cruz is the Abraham Lincoln of Sarah Palins.- John Fugelsang




Full Access Internet Is Essential As Water. I Agree With That Wholeheartedly. I'd Curl Up And Die Without It!
President Obama on Monday called for the government to aggressively regulate Internet service providers such as Verizon and Comcast, treating broadband like a public utility as essential as water, phone service and electricity.

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/net_neutrality





People against Net Neutrality either a) don’t know what it is, or b) have their net worth determined by telecom stocks.- Jay Frosting Tweet





Startling Photos Of What We Are Doing To Our Beautiful Planet
“Mind the Earth,” an upcoming exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre, is a carefully curated exhibition of stunning yet terrifying Google Earth images that offer stark photographic evidence of urban change and environmental destruction over time on the ever-changing face of the planet.

For as much as we claim to support vets, this country has a long history of ignoring them after their service.- John Fugelsang

I wonder how much Republicans spent flying George W. Bush around to campaign stops.- LOLGOP

Meet Our Veteran Presidents
On Veterans Day, Constitution Daily looks at 10 Presidents who had first-hand experience serving in the military before they were elected to office and became commanders in chief.




Weird. The people who want us to pay for big oil's pollution and big bank's risks want us to pay for big cable's internet toll booth.- LOLGOP

I have a shortened issue today due to shortened time. Life here is pura vida (pure life) and few are in a rush. I quite like that.

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Of our favorite draft dodgers -- Rush, Trump & Cheney -- only Dick never divorced. And he's the only one who supports same-sex marriage.- LOLGOP

Information desk, Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, New York, between 1956-6.



Peace through art.

‘F*cking b*tch!’: GOP supporters ‘assault’ reporters for broadcasting during Texas campaign prayer

‘F*cking b*tch!’: GOP supporters ‘assault’ reporters for broadcasting during Texas campaign prayer

A supporter at an event for Lt. Governor-elect Dan Patrick (R-TX) allegedly assaulted a reporter because he tried to broadcast during a Christian prayer.

I guess this clown never read the third commandment about misusing the Lord's name.

I'm upset that I may have to pay with poor people's food stamps but overjoyed that I can subsidize billionaires' pollution.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Obama says US troop increase in Iraq a 'new phase'
• US hits al-Qaida affiliate in Syria
• Iraq investigating IS chief's fate after air strikes
• U.S. veterans sue banks, claim they should pay for Iraq attacks
• Military 'near misses' rise dramatically between Russia and NATO: report
• Israeli police up alert level after Arab protests
• Obama, Putin speak briefly on Beijing summit sidelines

Support Our Troops Fighting For Christianistas and English!
A Mississippi heritage group has launched a proposed ballot measure which would amend the state's constitution to recognize Christianity as the official religion of the state and English as the official language of the state.



Ever notice how the same people who think Obama is Muslim also thought Bush/Cheney were Christian?- John Fugelsang

Dubya Writes ANOTHER Book Spalinin' Himself
Invading Iraq was the right decision, but former President George W. Bush does have one regret, he told CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, in a wide-ranging interview Sunday that touched on brother Jeb Bush's potential presidential run, Bush 43's "love letter" to his father, and the controversial Iraq war.



Weird. The first election after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act had the lowest turnout in 70 years.- LOLGOP

Another Ignorant Racist Who Sounds As Though He Has A Dozen Marbles In His Mouth
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has said that he was not intending to be offensive when he recently called President Barack Obama’s policies “tar babies.”

Republican Shenanigans

• WATCH: Christian woman explains that Monster Energy drinks are the ‘work of Satan’
• Breitbart Removes Article That Attacked Wrong Loretta Lynch For Whitewater Ties
• ‘I’m a rocket scientist’: Sovereign citizen’enlightens’ cop about Treasury cash scheme
• Mass. lawman relies on urban legends to rally sheriffs to DC for anti-immigration protest
• West Virginia homeless man loses only photos of dead wife when cop throws backpack in river

0 Ebolas in the U.S. since we got that Ebola Czar. Can you be promoted above Czar?- LOLGOP



I Like Pope Francis More And More
In a move announced on Saturday, Pope Francis has demoted the highest-ranking American in the Vatican in response to the conservative cardinal’s criticism of the pontiff’s reformist agenda, reports the Catholic News Service.

Republicans are more representative of small-town values. Like racism and incest.- TheJokeBlogger



Rock The Voter News

• Obama touts new China visa deal as way to create U.S. jobs
• U.S. Little League(R) Champions Present Presidential EASTON Glove to Barack Obama and First Lady 

Lowest midterm turnout since WW2.  Which means we should congratulate the GOP a second time.- John Fugelsang








The 85 richest people on Earth now have as much money as the poorest 3.5 billion so give 'em that tax cut they need to create jobs already.- John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• Kuwait mulls spending cuts as oil revenues fall
• U.S. Postal Service says data breach hits employees, call center
• Obama Comes Out in Favor of Net Neutrality
• New bank rules proposed to end 'too big to fail'

Bad Employees At Bath & Body Works!
Bath and Body Works has issued an apology after a second one of its stores was caught refusing service to special needs children.

When a guy tells me he's 'self-made' I always make sure to ask how he managed to fertilize his Mom's egg.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Florida woman survives 45 minutes with no pulse
• Ohio firefighters rescue dog stuck on roof 3 days
• Cloud of pot smoke puts Colorado high school on partial lockdown
• 81-year-old charged with looting tangerine grove
• Dutch to public: Don't pee on the royal palace

Time To Deflate Photo

Salvador Dali walking his anteater in Paris, 1969.

Peace through art.