Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel’s ranking Dem says

Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel’s ranking Dem says
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to testify before the House Select Committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, CNN reports.



"In my White House, we will know who wears the pantsuits."- Hillary Clinton 2008

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Kobane in ruins after Kurds drive out IS
• Hezbollah missile attack kills two Israeli soldiers
• Hostage parents make anguished pleas as IS deadline nears
• Suspected Colombian cartel leader secretly flown out of Costa Rica on DEA plane
• Snowden files show Canada spy agency runs global Internet watch: CBC

Welcome to Vietnam, Pvts Cheney, Bush, Romney and Limbaugh.  #UnlikelyLinesFromAWarMovie - John Fugelsang Tweet

Pro-Vietnam War parade in New York City by Mary Ellen Mark, 1968.

Islamaphobia On Increase Due To Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, the film covering the life of an American Navy SEAL with the most confirmed “kills” during the course of his duty, has led to an increase in threats against Muslims in the US since its release, an Arab-American civil rights group has claimed.




Rick Perry doesn't trust Texas' criminal justice system? He probably should have let us know that when he was busy executing 250+ people.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

• Sarah Palin complains that 'quasi-right' Fox News thinks she's a joke: ‘This is war’
• Gohmert: 'Republican Females' Who Derailed Abortion Bill Made GOP Look Bad
• Rand Paul Has A Warning For Drones: 'I've Got A Shotgun' 
• GOP Gymnastics On Medicaid Expansion Are Getting Crazy

The difference between weather and climate is conservatives care about the weather.- LOLGOP

Flag Hags
Bill Maher wondered when Confederate “flag-hags” would give up a divisive symbol many consider to be racist and possibly treasonous.

I enjoy watching Republicans trying to reject Palin, Trump and Huckabee, when all three are polling ahead of Marco Rubio and Scott Walker.- LOLGOP





Rock The Voter News

• Obama AG Nominee: 'Waterboarding Is Torture ... And Thus Illegal'
• Govt tells agents to ID which immigrants not to deport

Numbers show successes in the War on Poverty, but many Republicans still think we aren't killing the poor fast enough.- Republican God




Michelle Obama Didn't Wear Ugly Clothes In Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stepped off Air Force One at the VIP airport terminal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to meet with new King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. They met the king and other regional officials to pay their respects following the passing of King Abdullah. While officials planned to discuss the Syrian civil war, the political situation in Yemen, and the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, one thing in particular made the headlines.

The first lady’s attire.

'Climate Change' is a sick conspiracy by the world scientific community to convince people pollution is bad. - John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• Oil slips to $49 as U.S. crude inventories hit record
• Gas prices to drop again this week in Costa Rica
• Sen. Rubio Wins Straw Poll Of Koch Brothers Donors
• Cops: Ex-Fox producer kills himself outside NYC headquarters

Obama Allows Offshore Drilling In Atlantic
The Obama administration on Tuesday outlined a politically fraught plan for allowing oil and gas drilling offshore along parts of the Atlantic coast while imposing new restrictions on environmentally fragile waters off northern Alaska.





Dear Republicans, how about regulating Wall Street instead of vaginas? - Snarky Pundit Tweet

Scarborough's 'Liberal' Co-Host Becomes A Sudden Koch Bros. Convert 
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough hasn't been shy about his support for the industrial billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch, but it took a weekend in Palm Springs for his liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski to see the light.










'Dasani' is Italian for 'Coke just sold you tap water.' - John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Unions turn lights off on French prime minister
• Bart the cat hit by car, buried and then crawls from grave
• Man hid cocaine inside prosthetic leg in his car, police say
• Years-old stash of marijuana found inside NM woman's van
• Snowstorm sasquatch? Watch out for the Boston yeti

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This is a half selfie I took yesterday in Santa Cruz, Costa Rica. The parrot would say Hello and How are You in Spanish.

Peace.

I will be back with a new edition on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.

What a day I had. Good news but it took the whole day to find out.

Thank you for stopping by.

This is how I felt at the end of the day!

Peace.

Trump throws his hat into the ring

Donald Trump Rages At 'Meet The Press' After Being Mocked By Chuck Todd
There was host-on-host violence at NBC on Sunday.
Donald Trump, who hosts the network's reality show "The Apprentice," blew up on Twitter after a remark "Meet The Press" moderator Chuck Todd made a crack on air Sunday morning.

Todd was discussing Trump's Saturday speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit when he threw in a jab...




Donald Trump considering a run for President if he can get his hair cleared as the VP candidate. -absrdNEWS

Republicans proved in Iowa that they have a wealth of candidates who would make embarrassing running mates.- LOLGOP





The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Fox News Host: "We Have Saved the Planet" with Wars like Iraq
• Officials Say Bombings Kill 15 in Iraq's Capital, Baghdad
• Angelina Jolie in Iraq: "The international community is failing"
• Piece By Piece, Monks Scramble To Preserve Iraq's Christian History

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was summoned to answer questions about the footballs that were mysteriously deflated in their game against the Colts. This was covered live on all the sports networks and also live on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and a bunch of local channels. You would think Tom Brady had killed the president's dog.- Jimmy Kimmel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address US Congress, where he's expected to announce his run for president on the GOP ticket.- Tea Party Cat




Republican Shenanigans

• New Jersey governor Christie preparing for White House run: WSJ
• A Republican scenemaker faces fraud charges
• Republicans Just Relaunched Their War on Obamacare. It Didn't Go Well.
• Quotes from leading political figures at Iowa GOP summit
• Reagan Day' scores a star guest speaker: Dick Cheney
• House tea partyers face new resistance from GOP pragmatists

Before Bobby Jindal lets God decide if he runs for president, he should keep in mind God was like 0 for 6 in the last GOP primary.- LOLGOP

GOP Is Messing With Government Backed Loans
A top U.S. Republican lawmaker will revisit a plan to reduce government involvement in the country's housing finance system, and expects Senate colleagues to be receptive to potential changes, according to an interview aired on C-SPAN on Sunday.



Maybe Jesus did say to help the poor 2000 years ago, but Reagan schooled Him on the benefits of tax cuts for the rich once he got to Heaven.- Tea Party Cat

Rock The Voter News

• Michelle Obama Has India Buzzing About Her Outfit

The Koch network spent $100+ million in 2014 and $400+ million, more than the top ten unions combined, in 2012.- LOLGOP

GOP: Thing Go Better With Koch
Three potential Republican presidential candidates appeared before a gathering of wealthy donors organized by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers in California on Sunday night.







God loves atheists, they don't ask him for anything. - JokeBlogger.com

"Historic Blizzard" isn't going to cut it, CNN.

Blizzardo?
SnowMyGod?
Weather Ebola?
SnowSwarm?
Wolf Blizzard?
Revenge of Missing Plane?
- LOLGOP





Business/Tech News

• Oil Slides to Near 6-Year Low as U.S. Supply Seen Worsening Glut
• U.S. firms raising wages; skills gap in goods producing sector: survey
• Union sends messages of frustration in U.S. refinery contract talks
• Russia defiant after more threats from West over Ukraine
• China Switches to Supporting Yuan as Outflows Mount: Currencies
• Bombardier struggles to break Airbus and Boeing duopoly

Obama Protects 12 Million Acres In Alaska
President Barack Obama will call on Congress to expand protection of Alaska's Arctic refuge where oil and gas drilling is prohibited to 12 million acres (5 million hectares), an area that includes 1.4 million oil-rich acres along the coast.




The Jamaican government is considering a bill to decriminalize marijuana. But first they have to get over the shock of finding out it was illegal in the first place.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Burger King Screws Up Woman's Order, Hands Her $2,600 at Drive-Thru
• 11 Years to the Day, NASA Mars Rover is Still Driving
• Hoax caller impersonating spy chief put through to UK PM Cameron
• Suspected burglar falls through ceiling, lands near police
• Naked violinist sues over arrest in Portland last year

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A Sno-Cat balanced precariously over a crevasse during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. c. 1955. Yikes!

Peace.

Saudi King Dies

Death of Saudi king unsettles oil market, prices waver
Oil prices rose initially on news of the death of Saudi Arabia's powerful King Abdullah, but the increase was moderate and short-lived.
The king's death is unlikely to lead to a change in the kingdom's immense crude production or change the course of oil prices in the coming months, analysts say.




To be fair to Saudi Arabia, 4 of the 19 9/11 hijackers weren't from there.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• New Saudi king seeks to reassure on succession and policy
• HRW urges Saudi's new king to respect rights
• Obama hails late Saudi king's commitment to ties with U.S.
• U.S. pulls more staff from Yemen embassy amid deepening crisis

REPORT: Guys who were OK with a president misleading us into a catastrophic invasion upset that the president did interviews with YouTubers.- LOLGOP

Anti-Semitism and the U.N.
The first U.N. General Assembly meeting on anti-Semitism on Thursday sparked calls for global action to combat the rising hatred of Jews and a surprising denunciation from the world's 57 Islamic nations of all words and acts that lead "to hatred, anti-Semitism, Islamaphobia."




Saudi King Abdullah has died; members of the Bush family to be flown at half-mast.- John Fugelsang

Free speech in America means you can go on TV and say 'Dick Cheney is evil' but you can't say 'Cheney is an evil dick.'- John Fugelsang





Republican Shenanigans

• Tea Party spawns GOP nightmare: How it’s already ruining the party’s ’16 strategy
• Could The GOP Turn Social Security Into A Perennial 'Crisis' Like The Debt Limit?
• In Iowa, potential GOP candidates compete for 2016 spotlight
• Glenn Beck To Pope Francis: I Need To Teach You About Capitalism
• Immigration Critic Jeff Sessions Will Chair Senate Panel On Immigration 

GOP will allow abortions in cases of rape, as long as the woman's entire town certifies that she isn't some hussy.- Tea Party Cat

The Daughter Of Darth Vader Is A Decorator!
Mary Cheney is the self-proclaimed daughter of Darth Vader.
“I’m Darth Vader’s daughter,” Cheney, 45, said during a discussion at American University on Wednesday, adding that the moniker led her to decorate her son’s room with a vintage figurine of the “Star Wars” character.





Which reproductive rights ban that will never become law are Republicans cannibalizing themselves over today?- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Hazy skies the backdrop for Obama's climate talks in India
• YouTube stars interview Obama and things get weird

First lady Michelle Obama wore a suit to the State of the Union that apparently had also been worn by Julianna Margulies’ character on the “The Good Wife.” They both wore the same outfit, which is why Obama just passed an executive action ordering Us Weekly to say Michelle wore it better.- Jimmy Fallon

Loaded Guns In Airports
The next time you are standing in the security line at the airport, be aware that some of your fellow passengers may be packing more than just clothes.

The Transportation Security Administration says that a record 2,212 firearms were discovered in passenger's carry-on bags or on their bodies in the past year. And more than eighty percent of those guns were loaded.

"We saved an economy that was on the brink of depression. We've created 11 million new jobs. We've doubled clean energy. We've reduced pollution. We've made sure that more young people can go to college. We have given now so far 10 million people health insurance that didn't have it before, and that's going to grow over time. We have ended two wars in a responsible way." —President Obama

Business/Tech News

• Nothing Is Going to Save the Housing Market
• Monthly US rents keep climbing, especially in San Francisco
• Top official: Russians will 'eat less' for Putin
• SkyMall Lands in Bankruptcy as In-Flight Shopping Changes

If you really care about controlling gas prices, you should run for King of Saudi Arabia.- LOLGOP

Oil Jobs To Disappear
Oil drillers will begin collapsing under the weight of lower crude prices during the second quarter and energy explorers who employ them will shortly follow, according to Conway Mackenzie Inc., the largest U.S. restructuring firm.




A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's “cheap” and “helicopter.”- Jimmy Fallon

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Odd News

• Israeli's 'magic' yarmulke made to protect Jews from attacks
• Mannequin on billboard spurs 911 calls about possible jumper
• Man close to running 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents
• Man who bought lottery tickets to break $100 bill wins $10M
• Ohio Police Looking For 'Braveheart Bandit'

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Hot-springs in Arenal, Costa Rica.

Peace.

RAPE

Lindsey Graham: Stop trying to redefine rape or we won’t get an abortion bill going again
Potential Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham spoke at the Family Research Council’s “ProLifeCon” and urged conservatives to help him find a “way out of this definitional problem with rape,”



"I'm not a scientist. But luckily gynecology is not a science." - Republicans

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Saudi to again postpone flogging of blogger
• Navy Commander at Guantanamo Base Fired Amid Alleged Affair, Suspicious Death
• U.S.-Cuba begin historic talks on restoring diplomatic ties
• U.N. says cash to repair Gaza homes will run out by end-month

REMINDER: Canada has no abortion restrictions, single-payer and gay marriage and we don't need a border fence to keep their Christians out.- LOLGOP

GOP Revised Abortion Of A Bill

With thousands of abortion foes massing blocks away for their annual protest march, Republicans pushed legislation toward House passage Thursday tightening restrictions on federal financing of abortions that the White House quickly threatened to veto. But it was not the bill an embarrassed GOP had hoped to approve.

Why shouldn't we needlessly alienate female voters before a presidential election? Republicans demand to know.- LOLGOP

Republican Shenanigans

• Bobby Jindal Defends "No-Go Zones" Myth: Fox's John Bolton Said It Was True
• Are 97 of the nation's 100 poorest counties in red states?
• Bernie Sanders Goes On MSNBC and Shreds Morning Joe’s Republican Talking Points
• Huckabee Says He Played Clean Cut Of Dirty Nugent Song, Forgets There's Video
• Jeb Bush And Mitt Romney Meeting Privately In Utah Thursday 

So, Joni Ernst Is Entitled To Entitlements?
Despite Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) rhetoric about growing up poor on Tuesday night, her family actually received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government aid between 1995 and 2009,

The GOP doesn't oppose infrastructure, they'd just rather build oil pipelines than the roads people need gas to drive on.- Tea Party Cat

Rock The Voter News

• Obama Kicked Off a New Political Era With His SOTU Speech 
• Hillary Clinton Impersonates Vladimir Putin -- Accent and All

Slave Wages Are Okey Dokey!
California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock said on Thursday that the minimum wage should not be raised because low pay was necessary for minorities and other unskilled workers who were not worth more than $7 an hour.

So if Joni Ernst was born in '70 doesn't that mean her family was in poverty and breadbagging it when Reagan was President?- John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• Oil plunge to cost Gulf exporters $300 bn, says IMF
• Oil prices have reached 'bottom', says Iraqi minister
• Thai migrant workers in Israel face serious labor abuses: report
• World's poor headed for better lives in 2030: Gates

A new survey shows that most people trust Google more as a source for current events than traditional news outlets. Traditional news outlets didn't believe the news until they Googled it.- Seth Myers

Largest North Dakota Spill Ever
Cleanup is underway after nearly 3 million gallons of brine, a salty, toxic byproduct of oil and natural gas production, leaked from a pipeline in western North Dakota, the largest spill of its kind in the state since the current energy boom began.



Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted on the reality of global warming. Up next, a vote on gravity.- James Crooks tweet

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Odd News

• Drone loaded with meth crashes near Mexico-California border
• Man Bulldozes Home - But Doesn't Tell Wife
• 4 bears die of chocolate overdoses; expert proposes ban
• Police: Woman says aliens told her to break into theme park
• Singapore smoker fined $15,000 for throwing butts out of window

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Monkey Orchids. Just precious!

Peace.