Day: April 13, 2014

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Healthcare News Obama care Politics

Health Care Horror?

You’d think that people were dying because they signed up for health insurance. You’d think that people were going broke because they had to leave behind their old policies that didn’t cover needed expenses and treatments. You’d think that the opponents of the Affordable Care Act would come up with a specific, viable alternative that they could run on this November.

Oh, the horror. None of this is happening.

I will say for the final time that the website rollout was terrible and horrible, but it’s now time to move beyond that because over 7 million people now have health insurance and the numbers keep going up. Citizens living in the most prosperous country in the world will not have to worry about medical costs bankrupting them or forcing them to lose their houses or their livelihoods. People can now make decisions based on their own life choices, rather than having to stay at a dead-end job because of the benefits.

Oh, the horror?

The real horror is being perpetrated by the states that refuse to take free federal money to expand Medicaid and cover even more people. These states are led by governors and legislatures that are acting on ideology rather than common sense. They have convinced themselves that president Obama wishes to enslave their citizens through federal programs, making them dependent on the government for their happiness. It’s irrational and will eventually lead to defeat for the politicians that are erecting the legal roadblocks to health care.

The history of the United States has moved inexorably in one direction, and that’s towards equality, access and enhanced civil rights. The Affordable Care Act will survive and thrive because it enables citizens to live better lives. In the end, it is truly American.

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Politics

James Carville – If Republicans Lose in 2016, The Party Will Be Over

James Carville has some words of wisdom, not necessarily for the Republicans or the Republican party, but for anyone with some sense who is willing to listen.

According to Carville who appeared on a Sunday roundtable on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Carville said if the Republicans lose the presidential election in 2016, they might as well pack it up and go home… forever!

“Trust me,” Carville said, “the party knows, and I use this word advisedly, that if it loses the 2016 presidential election, the Republican Party as we know it today will be extinct.”

“We heard that in 2008, too,” said Republican apologist Laura Ingraham, who was also on the panel with Carville.

“This will be the sixth out of seven elections in which they’ve lost the popular vote,” Carville replied. “The Republicans want to win this. That will be the biggest issue in January 2016: how can we beat Hillary Clinton?”

The end of the Republican party is enough reason to vote Democratic in 2016!

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This Woman Offers an Interesting Reward for Finding her Missing Cat – Pic

She must really love that cat. This woman in her posting admits that she has “no cash for reward,” but said that she’s “great at BJs,” and apparently is willing to prove how “great” she is by performing her skill on the lucky [man] I assume, who finds her missing feline.

What if a woman finds it?

Photo: Reddit

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Featured Politics

Right Winged Militia Helps Rancher Defy Court Order – Video

Photo: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

They came armed with their shotguns and pistols, and whatever other pieces of weaponry these right wingnuts have. They descended on the ‘Bundy Ranch’ as its being called in social media – lands that in fact, belongs to the federal government.

Their mission? To help the cattleman Cliven Bundy defy a court order to vacate the lands owned by the government.

Back in 1998, Cliven Bundy, a cattle herder from Navada was ordered by the courts to remove his livestock from federal land known as the Bunkerville Allotmen. Bundy was also ordered to pay $200 a day per cattle if he did not follow the court order. Bundy refused to and continued his grazing activities.

Then in October 2013, fifteen years later, another order from the court was given. This time, Bundy had 45 days to comply. He again refused, in fact, Bundy expanded his grazing activities to include other federally owned lands. A third court order was issued pointing to this fact.

According to the third order;

“Bundy’s cattle have moved beyond the boundaries of the Bunkerville Allotment and are now trespassing on a broad swath of additional federal land (the “New Trespass Lands”), including public lands within the Gold Butte area that are administered by the BLM, and National Park System land within the Overton Arm and Gold Butte areas of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.”

After 15 years and multiple court orders demanding Cliven Bundy vacate federal lands, Rangers – under the authority of the court and armed with stun guns – began rounding up and removing the livestock.

Last Saturday, 352 cattle were impounded and that was when all he’ll broke loose!

They came out of the woodsheds. Armed right-winged Republican nuts, lovers and defenders of the constitution, came determined to help Bundy defy a constitutionally protected court order.

“We provide armed response,” said Jim Lordy, who belongs to the militia group called Operation Mutual Aid. He continued, “[w]e need guns to protect ourselves from the tyrannical government!”

Other militias like The Oath Keepers also promised to send support to the lawbreaking cattle herder.

It worked.

The latest update from Montana is that “the government has suspended their enforcement action because militia activity was posing a danger to employees and the public.”

Bundy, emboldened by this “win” is however taking things a step further. He wants the Rangers rounding up the cattle to disarm. And furthermore, he is demanding that they leave their weapons with him. He gave them 1 hr to comply.

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Rapper Drake Grant’s Terminally Ill Girl’s Wish

Source: Instagram

If you haven’t already figured it our from his music, Drake has a really big heart and we’re super happy to see him share it in this way.

Last night, 15-year-old Kennedy Brown got the surprise of her life when Drizzy showed up on her doorstep unexpectedly. According to ABC News, Kennedy, who’s currently in hospice, was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago, but this weekend she made a special trip back to her high school, Carnegie Vanguard in Houston,TX, where her classmates threw her a surprise prom, crowned her prom queen, and even gave her an honorary diploma in a private graduation ceremony. Part of the goal of the events was to grant Kennedy’s wish of getting a special message or visit from her favorite rapper, which is why classmate Payton Campbell gave out these instructions:

“We would ask all of your viewers to #DrakeForKen so we can get him to come see her or send something for her because that would mean the world to her.”

Thankfully, Drake saw the social media campaign and paid Kennedy a personal visit yesterday that you can tell was likely the highlight of both of their lives. Posting photos on his Instagram page, Drake captioned the pic below with “She asked to touch the brows #accessgranted”

Source: Instagram

– h/t Madamenoire

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A Clerical Error Caused State to ‘forgot’ to send this man to prison for 13 years

The Missouri Department of Corrections discovered, upon preparing to release a prisoner who had served a 13-year sentence in July 2013, that the prisoner had never been incarcerated and promptly sent him to prison.

In the intervening 13 years since his 1999 arrest, Cornealious ‘Mike’ Anderson III, 36, has transformed his life, becoming a master carpenter, starting his own business and marrying and having children.

In July last year, as he and his youngest daughter slept in the St Louis home he built for his family, a SWAT team outfitted in tactical gear and helmets swarmed the house, arresting the terrified father of four and delivering him to the Missouri Department of Corrections, where he’s been ever since.


13 years late: Mike Anderson is currently nine months into a 13-year prison sentence for a crime committed in 1999

Now, Anderson is fighting to be released from prison, where he’s nine months into the original 13-year sentence.

The Riverfront Times reports that it appears some kind of clerical error is responsible for Anderson’s predicament.

In 1999, Anderson and another man robbed a Burger King store manager of the day’s takings as he attempted to deposit the cash in a night-deposit box.

The pair used a BB gun and Anderson was arrested two months later after witnesses gave police his car license plate number.

Between 2000 and 2004, Anderson filed a series of appeals which were ultimately unsuccessful. At that point, his bail should have been revoked and he should have been taken into custody – but he never was.


Family man: Anderson with his wife LaQonna and their four children. In the years since his arrest he has built a business and a loving family life

As the weeks and months passed by, Anderson never attempted to hide: he registered a business, Anderson Construction and Investment, to his home address and married his wife, LaQonna Anderson. He coached his son’s football team and volunteered at his local church.

He even filed a post-conviction appeal that clearly stated ‘Movant is not presently incarcerated.’ His co-accused, Laron Harris, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years. In filings, Anderson’s address is clearly stated as Webster Groves, whereas the listing for Harris is the Missouri Department of Corrections.

No one commented on this discrepancy and Anderson remained free for seven years after his final appeal failed in 2005.

Tim Lohmar, the current prosecutor for St. Charles County, where the armed robbery occurred, is baffled at the error.

‘Somebody messed up. Somebody messed up big time,’ he told CBS News.

As to whether Anderson deserves to be free, he said, ‘The jury heard the evidence, the judge upheld the sentence,’ he says. ‘As unfair as it may seem to he and his family, he’s got 13 years he owes the state. I don’t think there’s much more to say than that.’

Read more: DailyMail

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