Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Ryan quotes Braveheart: 'Unite the clans'





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Ryan quotes Braveheart: 'Unite the clans'
In a speech Wednesday, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will call on fractured Republicans to join together to fight to take back the White House in 2016.
"To quote William Wallace in Braveheart, we have to unite the clans,” Ryan will say in a keynote address at the annual policy summit hosted by the conservative outside group Heritage Action.


Unite the clans? Gee, is that code for "klans?" smh


No matter how much we've overestimated Trump, we'll never match how much he's overestimated himself. - LOLGOP








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I just heard Ted Cruz's first words on his Iowa caucus win: "To God goes the glory."  
That's Republican for "Allahu Akbar!" - Hend Amry



EPA Says Michigan Mislead Them About Flint
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Gina McCarthy said Michigan state officials misled her agency in the run-up to Flint’s lead contamination crisis.







Scary that Marco Rubio, a man who says women should be forced to have their rapists' babies, is considered a more moderate GOP frontrunner.  - OhNoSheTwitnt ‏





Bacon Bible Beating
It’s always amazing how many folks who claim to be Christians are exactly nothing like Jesus. On Tuesday, an 11-year-old Michigan girl burst into tears intermittently as she testified in court that her father, 45-year-old Jonathan A. Powell,  beat her with frozen bacon as he quoted the Bible.










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My favorite Bible story is when Jesus feeds the multitudes after administering a drug test to make sure they deserve food.- John Fugelsang








He's so mad he may shoot someone!
Donald Demands Recount, Revote Or Nullification!!!!
Donald Trump on Wednesday morning published several tweets accusing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of "fraud" and said that the Iowa caucuses either need to be redone or "nullified," citing reports that the Cruz campaign disseminated misinformation about Ben Carson and sent out mailers suggesting Iowans violated election law.





I hope Trump wins, but even Reagan lost Iowa. ON TO NH, WHERE I'LL BE SPEAKING AT A TRUMP EVENT TOMORROW! - Ann Coulter tweet





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Just a little reminder from Congress that if any Republican wins in 2016, they're coming right for your insurance. - LOLGOP



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GOP: We Need To Investigate Obama From This Other Angle
Upset with what they see as "executive overreach" from the Obama administration, Republicans are forming a task force to challenge the president’s power.








President Obama is planning to visit a U.S. mosque for his first time as president. When asked why, Obama said, "I wanted to go to the one place in America where I won’t see Donald Trump."- Conan O'Brien




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 "I'll beat her rear end on that stage and afterward she'll be relieved that I didn't serve her with a subpoena." - Chris Christie on Hillary




Chris Christie in partial uniform, minus his cup.



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"Jeb can fix it" sounds like a local roto rooter or someone's uncle's YouTube channel.- Jimmy Kimmel




Bacardi  Wants Its Cuban Rum Factory Back
 Bacardi filed suit Monday against the United States demanding an explanation of its decision to let Cuba sell Havana Club rum in the United States once the U.S. trade embargo against the communist island is lifted.








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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Trump Turns On Iowa Voters: They Didn’t Give Me Any Credit!





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Trump Turns On Iowa Voters: They Didn’t Give Me Any Credit!
Donald Trump slighted Republican voters on Tuesday after coming in second place in the Iowa caucus, writing on Twitter that he didn't get "any credit" for "self-funding" his presidential campaign.



Trump the "Milli Vanilli of politics." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar






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FBI Investigating Flint
The FBI is joining with other federal agencies in investigating the circumstances behind how lead got into Flint, Mich.’s drinking water.
The law enforcement agency’s addition to the ongoing probe adds a new level to the potential outcome of the high-profile water pollution scandal.






Ted Cruz is a bunch of silly putty stuck to the skeleton of a Salem witch trial judge who was killed in a fire lit by his favorite slave.- Rob Delaney



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"they told me I had no chance."  - Marco Rubio.  (They were right.) - John Fugelsang




Jeb Spent $2800 A Vote In Iowa
Jeb Bush's sixth place finish in Iowa came with a shocking price tag.
He may have only amassed 2.8 percent of the vote among Iowa caucus goers Monday night, but he paid $2,800 for each vote, according to a tabulation compiled by the Huffington Post.










Just told my barber I want my hair to be “Megyn Kelly in the front, Donald Trump in the back.”- Conan O'Brien




Huckabee Quits, No One Notices
Republican White House hopeful Mike Huckabee has suspended his campaign after winning barely two percent in the Iowa caucuses that launched the 2016 presidential race.





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Kid Rock endorses Trump &  says let “Motherf**king Business Guy” be POTUS.  
Y'know, like George W. Bush.
Who Kid Rock also endorsed. - John Fugelsang



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Rubio gets more credit from the GOP for losing Iowa than Obama does for preventing  a depression, insuring 17 mil and taking Iran's uranium. - LOLGOP





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Run along now, Carly, and try to get a real job at some company you can destroy... #IowaCaucus. - Barracks O'Bama tweet







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Hey, you know what else is good for capitalism? A living wage workforce that can afford to, y'know, buy sh*t. - John Fugelsang







UH, OH, UK
Scientists in Britain have been give the go-ahead to edit the genes of human embryos for research purposes, using a technique that some say could eventually be used to create "designer babies".







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Monday, February 1, 2016

Trump warns Iowans: Cruz "will destroy your ethanol business 100%"





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Trump warns Iowans: Cruz "will destroy your ethanol business 100%" 
Donald Trump launched his final salvo against Ted Cruz just hours before the Iowa caucuses as he accused his main rival of seeking to destroy the state’s ethanol business.
“He will destroy your ethanol business 100 percent,” Trump said Monday during a rally in Waterloo, Iowa.


There is no "moderate" Republican running for president. It's just that the overtly evil ones make it seem that way. - Kona Lowell







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Not Much Of A Mention In The News
A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria's homegrown Islamic extremists







Someone drew a swastika on Trump's star on the Walk of Fame & there's no way to know if it was done by someone who hates him or supports him. - Maura Quint







Republican Shenanigans



If there were nude pics of a Democratic candidate's partner all over the internet I bet we'd see them on TV every day. All day.- Kona Lowell





Jeb Bush is a reminder that being "the smart Bush" is an incredibly low bar. - Jeff Tiedrich



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Public Backlash Against The Bundy Clan. Ya Think?
A public backlash against the Malheur occupiers also suggests American sympathy for those who work for the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the US Fish and Wildlife Department.






Obama faced a GOP literally willing to let the planet burn. From that we got 17 million insured, Wall St reform & a clean energy revolution. - LOLGOP



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Pretty sweet that people whose greatest fear is subsidizing lazy people have made Jeb Bush and Ben Carson's sorry consultants very rich men. - LOLGOP








Ben & Jerry's Feeling The Bern
Ben & Jerry's ice cream founder Ben Cohen says that if Iowans vote Bernie Sanders the winner of their caucuses he will reward them in pints -- and possibly a new "Bernie flavor."
"If Iowa voters do the right thing and support Bernie, I will personally come to Iowa and make as much ice cream for them as I can," Cohen told The Hill in a telephone interview Monday just hours before the Iowa caucuses.





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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth to all African American friends, and happy White Men Are The Real Victims Month to Rush Limbaugh. - John Fugelsang






Union Plumbers Donating Time To Flint
Members of Plumbing Manufacturers International (PMI) hit the streets Saturday 300 strong to install donated faucets and other plumbing in homes of residents affected by Flint's water crisis.



A lot of people are upset because in a new movie, Michael Jackson will be played by British white actor Joseph Fiennes. They’re also not thrilled about the new James Brown biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch.- Conan O'Brien










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Odd News
Time To Deflate Photo

The Atacama desert in Chile experienced a rare springtime bloom of flowers after El Niño brought the heaviest rainfall in two decades last October
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Peace.