Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Oui Oui! Fox News Insulted Paris, France!







CNN analyst urges Fox to settle Paris lawsuit: Unlike US, French have ‘criminalized’ slander
Two CNN legal analyst said on Tuesday that the city of Paris could win a lawsuit against Fox News because French law was less tolerant of slander and defamation than United States law.



Good article and true. The UK has similar laws. In the good old USA your can fling as much crap as you want and hope some sticks. Paranoia is bred in the USA by this crap. The French have more class.




Joe Biden to nurse fake baby during State of the Union.- LOLGOP









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Just saying if George W. Bush were president right now, he'd enter the State of the Union riding a Segway wearing an "I cured Ebola" sash.- LOLGOP









Meanwhile, Back In Washington, D.C.
A Muslim prison inmate in Arkansas has won his battle to grow a beard for religious purposes over objections by prison officials. In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that...








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Obama is just trolling us, Republicans said as they posted a meme of the president burning the Constitution with a flaming puppy.- LOLGOP









The Greying Old Party
The Senate’s top tax law writer accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of undertaking “class warfare” with his plan to raise taxes on wealthier Americans to help the middle class.









Remember, don't be mad at the civilian governments that sent soldiers to die for lies, be mad at Michael Moore and Jane Fonda. - John Fugelsang




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The next president will be sworn in exactly 2 years from today so let's just save time and start hating each other all over again right now.- John Fugelsang





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Republicans are so concerned about the poor that they want to relieve them of the burden of health insurance and food stamps.- LOLGOP




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Sometimes it's fun to remind Creationists that Jesus' basic message was 'Evolve.'- John Fugelsang








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Monday, January 19, 2015

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day







Alabama school superintendent bans high school history club from seeing ‘Selma’
A school trip to the see the historical civil rights drama ‘Selma‘ by a high school history club has been cancelled by the school superintendent over concerns over language, reports WAFF.




The current Republican Whip of the House voted against making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday. It is 2015.- LOLGOP









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American Sniper is one of the best films ever made about patriotically shooting people in a country that never attacked us. - John Fugelsang








Man Arrested For Video Taping Barbaric Saudi Arabian Beheading
 In a recent video from Saudi Arabia, three uniformed security officers and a professional swordsman in a white gown struggled to placate a woman cloaked in black and sitting in the street. A Saudi court had convicted her of murder, but she was proclaiming her innocence.

Then the officers stepped back, the swordsman took aim and the woman shrieked and fell silent as he struck her neck with his blade, three times in total. Medics wearing white gloves tended to the body, and the swordsman wiped his blade with a cloth.




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As a politician, Paul Ryan won't listen to 99% of scientists on climate change. As a Catholic he won't listen to the Pope, who's infallible.- The Daily Edge Tweet










I'm not buying your "so-called" climate science until it's verified by someone who has returned from heaven.- LOLGOP




51% Of Public School Children Are Poor
2015 - Low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools, according to this research bulletin. The latest data collected from the states by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), show that 51 percent of the students across the nation’s public schools were low income in 2013.



Happy MLK Day, when sane people celebrate a great man, and angry people celebrate Jackson-Lee Day to praise men who kept people as pets.









GOOD NEWS: The GOP presidential field is a mess. - LOLGOP




YeeHaw. Tea Partier Claims He Owns Martin Luther King Jr
During his speech at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition convention yesterday, conservative entertainer and YouTube celebrity “Wild Bill” Finley claimed ownership of slain Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.









I have a dream that people remember how ‪#‎MLK‬ was anti-war & fought for labor rights as much as for civil rights.- John Fugelsang




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President Obama At 50% Approval
President Barack Obama's approval rating has risen to 50 percent in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday, his strongest showing in the survey since the spring of 2013.

Forty-four percent disapprove of how he's handling his job as president.




To be fair, Republicans voted against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday before the technology existed for them to Google him.- LOLGOP









REMINDER: If Martin Luther King Jr. had lived, he'd be 86 today and conservatives wouldn't be quoting that one speech.- LOLGOP




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Richest 1% Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth and all Republicans by 2016, Study Finds. - LOLGOP




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Republicans could completely eliminate income inequality by disbanding and opening a cupcake shop.- LOLGOP









Oily Dealings
J.P. Morgan is the latest among Wall Street banks to downgrade oil & gas companies in Asia.

The bank now sees that Brent crude can fall below $40 per barrel in the near-term, “should the oil market not be able to accommodate a 1.6mb/d surplus,” that Brent crude will average at only $49 per barrel this year and $56.8 next, and that the recovery will be a slow U-shape.









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Friday, January 16, 2015

Saudi Arabia postpones activist's flogging: source, Amnesty







 Saudi Arabia has postponed Friday's public flogging of activist and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds, a source familiar with matter told Reuters.



This laptop is so slow I just caught it watching 'The O'Reilly Factor.'  - John Fugelsang










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Of course, Tony Blair is consulting the House GOP on radical Islam. He's one of the world's foremost experts on spreading it.- LOLGOP











Republican Compares ISIS To The Founding Fathers
Physician Ben Carson, a likely Republican presidential candidate who has captured the imagination of the conservative base, favorably compared the terrorist group ISIS to the founding fathers of the United States. Carson praised ISIS for being “willing to die” for their beliefs, just like America’s founders, and not compromising for “the sake of political correctness.” He said that while ISIS had the “wrong philosophy,” Americans could learn from their example.






Beginning to think we shouldn't get our ideas about free speech from people who think they know exactly what God wants.- LOLGOP




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Think about this. There are Republicans who think MITT ROMNEY has more bad baggage than a BUSH.- LOLGOP










Mitten Is On The Outs With GOP
Mitt Romney's declaration that he is considering a third shot at the White House after being a two-time Republican presidential loser was widely greeted with disdain at a national gathering of Republican activists on Thursday.




"Mitt Romney said if he did run, this time things would turn out differently. Yes they would. This time he would get his ass kicked by a woman." –Bill Maher









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Police ARE Above The Law
A former Arkansas police officer, who was fired after he exposed an undercover officer’s sex acts with a prostitute, has filed a lawsuit to get his job back.









GREAT NEWS! Not only are gas prices lower, but now that oceans are rising faster than expected, your drive to the beach is getting shorter!- The Daily Edge





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Mitch McConnell: "I'm pleased to announce crazy Sen. Ernst will give GOP response to #SOTU. In exchange she has promised not to castrate me"- The Daily Edge









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Yesterday, during his domestic abuse trial, NASCAR driver Kurt Busch said he believes his ex-girlfriend is a CIA-trained assassin. I guess those are just the kinds of thoughts you have when you drive in circles for four hours.- Seth Myers









Vultures Are Circling Obamacare
With the Supreme Court threatening to gut Obamacare, a top insurance executive says that he is working on a "grand bargain" between the White House and Congress in case that worst-case scenario comes to be.




It's always worth remembering that if OJ hadn't killed those poor people none of us would know what a 'Kardashian' is.- John Fugelsang







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