CIA: Iran will focus on its economy, not terrorism, with sanctions money

CIA: Iran will focus on its economy, not terrorism, with sanctions money
A secret U.S. intelligence assessment predicts that Iran’s government will pump most of an expected $100-billion windfall from the lifting of international sanctions into the country's flagging economy and won't significantly boost funding for terrorist groups and sectarian militias it supports in the Middle East.



If right wing Americans and right wing Iranians want war so bad they should just go off by themselves and have one.- John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Lawmakers laugh off Jade Helm theories
• Noose tightens around thousands caught in Iraq's Anbar offensive
• Islamic State says it launched rocket attack on Egypt navy vessel
• British man charged with hacking US networks arrested
• Netanyahu, British FM spar over Iran deal disagreements

It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, “That’s great! Wait, WHAT?”- Jimmy Fallon

Okies Wave Rebel Flag At Obama
When President Barack Obama arrived at his hotel in Oklahoma on Wednesday for a trip in which he will visit a federal prison, some protesters greeted the first black president with a symbol of white supremacy — the Confederate battle flag.




According to a new nationwide poll, Donald Trump now leads all other Republican presidential candidates. But come on, if we elect him you know he’ll just leave us for a younger country.- Seth Myers

Republican Shenanigans

• George HW Bush hospitalized after fall
• Jeb Bush girds for debate smackdown with Donald Trump
• John McCain Frets That Donald Trump Has Been Firing Up ‘The Crazies’
• Alabama Guv Sued For Removing Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds
• Pastor Jim Bakker blames Obama's Iran deal for California's drought and the Second Coming of Christ

America. Where wars don't even require a vote but the threat of peace freaks Congress out.- LOLGOP

Dug Up Dirt Cancels Duggars
TLC has decided to cancel its hit reality show "19 Kids and Counting" following accusations that star Josh Duggar molested underage girls, including his sisters, when he was a teenager.










Mike Huckabee: "Why would TLC cancel 19 Kids And Counting? It's just a little child molesting? It's no big deal. No MEN were harmed."- Tea Party Cat

Major Garrett was incredibly insolent to President Obama. A truly shocking level of disrespect. I've asked him to be my running mate.- Fake Donald Trump Tweet

Obama Schools Reporter
CBS correspondent Major Garrett said that his question during a televised White House press conference Wednesday that prompted a scolding from President Obama “struck a nerve.”












Major Garrett says he's rehearsing some great "Yo Momma" jokes for future WH press briefings. - The Daily Edge

Rock The Voter News

• AP-GfK Poll: Americans view Clinton, Republicans unfavorably
• Sanders rains on Hillary's parade

FOX NEWS: Obama has a secret Muslim plan to destroy Israel the same way he wrecked the economy and pardoned Bin Laden. - The Daily Edge

Play The Race Card? No, It's The White Privilege Card.
Ohio University students and faculty are calling on administrators to cut ties with a major school donor and strip his name from the communication school after he urged administrators to “play the race card” against opponents of plans to lease a new residence for the university's African-American president.

Scott Walker: it's God's plan for me to run. Same for Huckabee Santorum etc. Maybe it's God's plan to have them all lose & finally shut up.- Jim David

Fracking In The UK?
Fracking could potentially be done safely in the UK under "rigorous regulation", but it is too early to say whether it would be "a good idea", the Task Force on Shale Gas has reported.




Business/Tech News

• US stocks rise as eBay, Citi, others report strong earnings
• Puerto Rico Misses First Debt Payment
• Boeing's New 747 Jumbo Risks Dangerous Vibration, FAA Says
• Clinton proposes tax breaks for corporate profit-sharing

Greece can't get a bailout. But the brother of the guy who crashed the economy sucks up $100 million to lose.- LOLGOP

Who Needs To Know What Is In The Food We're Eating? Not Us 'Muricans!
U.S. food companies and other opponents of genetically modified food labeling notched a key victory on Tuesday as the House Agriculture Committee approved a measure banning mandatory labeling as well as local efforts to regulate genetically engineered crops.




Cosby losing Whoopi is like Cheney losing FOX.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Stressed Italian cows get air-conditioned sheds to combat heatwave
• Video shows plane making emergency landing on Jersey highway
• Scientists in Oregon develop bacon-flavored seaweed
• Man Allegedly Caught Viewing Porn Suffers Girlfriend's Wrath: Cops
• After His Job Plea Was Posted To Twitter, Homeless Man Is Flooded With Offers

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Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Peace.

The Mentality Of Republican Trolls

100s Of Civilians Plan To Monitor Possible Military Takeover Of Texas
If President Barack Obama really is planning to implement martial law under the guise of a military training exercise beginning Wednesday, hundreds of civilian volunteers will be ahead of him.





First they came for the Texans, and I did not speak out, because nobody is coming for the Texans, you paranoid nitwits.- Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Barack Obama praises Putin for help clinching Iran deal
• Iran deal to help rid region of WMDs: Arab League
• U.N. likely to vote on Iran nuclear deal next week: diplomats
• Missiles fall off British warplane during Cyprus landing

McCain: “For those of us who have looked forward to bombing Iran for some time now, this is a very sad day."- Andy Borowitz

The War On Black Americans Continues...
For black and white Americans, the difference between life and death is literally worlds apart. Although we may know this on some level, Nate Silver, the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight, has the startling statistics that demonstrate this reality.




OBAMA: We will not give Texas back until it accepts Medicaid expansion.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

• Jeb Bush compares Trump to Obama
• Texas Republican: Democrats must ‘apologize now’ for their Confederate flag or ‘shut up’
• ‘Homosexual behavior leads to death': Ford engineer sues for religious right to harass gay co-workers
• Bill To Mint Breast Cancer Coin Yanked Over Komen's Planned Parenthood Ties
• San Francisco officials brush off Fox: ‘You’re not a reporter. Fox News is not real news.’
• Alabama cops Tasered girl during seizure at concert and arrested mom for trying to help: suit

Scott Walker: “The minimum wage is a really lame idea. It’s not cool like my idea of forcing rape victims to have transvaginal ultrasounds.”- Tea Party Cat

Wow. Texans Cruz And Abbott To Be Disbarred?
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry and that states are required to issue them marriage licenses. Yet many public officials have publicly encouraged people to break the law. Among them are attorneys, such as Texas governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. They may frame their opposition as standing up for what’s right. But according to the ethical rules of lawyers, public officials who are attorneys defying the Supreme Court by refusing to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies or encouraging others to do the same should be disbarred.





Seems like the Republican clown car has morphed into a Republican clown bus. A double- decker clown bus.- Will Durst

Remember Trent Lott?
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) and a host of other former congressional staffers will lobby for a group pushing a ban on Internet gambling.
The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling — backed by GOP donor and casino owner Sheldon Adelson — hired the lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs, according to disclosures filed Tuesday.











And then Jesus took 5 loaves and 2 fish and fed 5,000, for which He charged them each a piece of silver because He hated moochers. - Tea Party Cat

Rock The Voter News

• Poll: Hillary Clinton's lead shrinks among Democrats 
• Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Just Had a (Sorta) Lovefest

America was terribly wrong about LGBTQ rights, climate, the Middle East, Cuba and the drug war for decades. Why not fix it all in a year?- LOLGOP

John Oliver said it best about a poll regarding how many Americans are skeptical about climate change. - "Who gives a s--t? That doesn’t matter. You don’t need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking, ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ Or, ‘Do owls exist?’ Or, ‘Are there hats?"

'Muricans Kill Each Other More Than Terrorists Do
Russia, ISIS, yadda yadda. The biggest existential threat to Americans is other Americans—specifically, the ones armed to the teeth.

Business/Tech News

• Manufacturing Shows Signs of Steadying as U.S. Oil Slump Wanes
• Feds take down elite hacking forum
• Google stock jumps on report that the company has curbed hiring
• Amazon and Wal-Mart Go Head-to-Head Over 'Prime Day'

The people who were mad that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize are even more mad that he's finally earning it.- John Fugelsang

Obama Wants Broadband In Public Housing
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to announce on Wednesday a pilot project to expand broadband access for people who live in public housing, in his administration's latest push to bridge the "digital divide" between the rich and poor.




She was like a blank email - no message in the body & no subject in the header.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Mexico drug lord escape tunnel is audacious engineering feat
• Plastic roads? Dutch company designs roads made of recycled bottles
• Some moms feel scammed waiting for breast milk jewelry
• 'I just like pigs': Cops say nude man found drinking in barn
• Summer hail prompts use of snowplows in South Dakota city

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Nylon stockings were scarce in WWII, so women covered their legs in makeup and added the seam with eyeliner to the back of their legs to give the illusion of wearing stockings.

Peace.

Iran Makes Nuclear Deal

Death to America, deal with America: Iran's Khamenei
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's distrust of the United States loomed over nuclear talks for years but Iran's supreme leader ultimately did a deal because it served the nation's interests. Faced with conflicting pressures over a US-led agreement -- needed to end crippling....




Trump: I would have made Iran give me a nuclear weapon. - LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• World leaders voice relief at Iran nuclear deal
• The Latest: US pushing Iran deal at United Nations
• Germany's Steinmeier criticizes Israel's opposition to Iran deal
• PM says Israel not bound by Iran deal, will defend itself

If Republicans think American wants another Bush war in the Middle East, they can put that right on the ballot in 2016.- LOLGOP

Will The GOP Try To Nuke The Iran Deal? Of Course!
President Barack Obama heralded a nuclear agreement with Iran on Tuesday as an opportunity to shift direction in the Middle East, and warned he would veto any attempt by deeply skeptical Republican lawmakers to overturn the deal.





"We had two perfectly good enemies in Cuba and Iran before Obama messed things up."
-- Republican talking point

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Campaign Blames Nazi Twitter Ad On Scapetern
• Maine Attorney General: Gov. LePage Massively Botched Vetos
• Oklahoma GOP Compares Food Stamp Recipients To Animals
• Scott Walker: The Boy Scouts' Ban On Gay Troop Leaders ‘Protected Children’ 
• 'I’d Knock You Out Right Now!': Fox Cuts To Break As Geraldo Threatens Co-Host

In a perfect world, El Chapo would dig a tunnel directly under Trump during a GOP debate and Donald would suddenly vanish.- Andy Borowitz

More "Christianity" Being Shoved Down Our Throats Whether We Like It Or Not!
A North Carolina Republican told a religious gathering that his “primary mission” as a congressman was to promote the Gospel of Christ.
Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) appeared last week alongside Reps. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at the weeklong “Celebrate America” revival meeting in Washington, D.C., reported Right Wing Watch.






Shorter Trump: "I'd take anyone in fist fight and kick their ass"
Mexican Criminal: "I'll make you eat your words"
Trump: "Please US Government help protect me"

Irony at it's core.

They hated John Kerry for going to war when they wouldn't and now they hate him for going to peace.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Iran deal sets 2016 clash between Clinton and Republicans
• PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BERNIE SANDERS IS COMING TO PHOENIX
• Hillary Clinton endorses Iran deal

If Ronald Reagan had reached the #IranDeal, GOP would demand he be placed on all currency and etched into Rushmore. - Bipartisan Report

Texas Is Ready For Jade Helm 15
The multi-state U.S. military training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm 15," which has spawned myriad conspiracy theories and vexed public officials who struggled to allay the concerns of constituents, is finally here.

FOX News is a Mecca for people who hate Mecca.- John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• European refiners ready to welcome return of Iranian crude
• For the first time since August 2009, gold is cheap
• Asia stocks lifted by Greece deal, China's 4th day of gains
• Venezuela’s Black-Market Bolivar Tumbles to 1% of Official Rate

One economist is proposing that the way to save Greece is to take Greece's $56 billion in assets and move them to an offshore bank account. And his second proposal is to bring the Parthenon to the next "Antiques Road Show."- Conan O'Brien

Latest Poll: Trump Isn't As Disgusting As Last Week
The polls have been very kind to Donald Trump in recent weeks, and Monday was no exception, as Monmouth University released its monthly poll of Republican presidential voters. The results showed Trump in second place nationally, trailing only Jeb Bush. But that wasn’t the big news. The real headline in the Monmouth survey is that the general public dislike of Trump, even among Republican voters, seems to be dissipating.




Pluto doesn't care if we think it's a planet or not.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Polish cow on the run for 2 years is finally caught
• One in four dogs at top show Crufts found to be overweight
• Hundreds of sex toys dangling from power lines in Portland, Oregon
• Lebowski Fest Founder Arrested After Allegedly Smoking Weed At Bowling Alley
• Indonesia's 'Chicken Church' Is So Much Cooler Than Florida's

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Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015. This view is dominated by the large, bright feature informally named the “heart,” which measures approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across. The heart borders darker equatorial terrains, and the mottled terrain to its east (right) are complex. However, even at this resolution, much of the heart’s interior appears remarkably featureless—possibly a sign of ongoing geologic processes.
CREDIT: NASA/APL/SwRI

Peace.