Month: April 2014

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Politics

Chris Brown To Remain in Jail at least ‘Till June

TMZ is reporting that Chris Brown’s latest bid for freedom was just DENIED.

Brown — who was jailed last month after getting booted from rehab — was flown to D.C.and promptly jailed  as he awaited trial in his assault case.

The trial was supposed to start today … but it was just postponed until June.

Brown asked the judge in the Rihanna beating case to release him, but the judge just shut him down.

Translation: Brown will soon be flown back to L.A. — where he’ll remain in jail until June … at the very least.  It looks like he’ll be flown back to D.C. on Con air … a trip way worse than economy.

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Chelsea Clinton Featured

A New Low For New York Post – Writes “an open letter to Chelsea Clinton’s fetus”

The Republican outlet better known as the New York Post sank to a new low. In what they call at “letter” to Chelsea’s Fetus, the post parroted the usual nonsense from the Republicans and from Fox News, calling the pregnancy “campaign asset” and “stage prop” for “Lady Pantsuit'”

Here’s part of the post gutter sweeping.

Dear Baby Clinton-Mezvinsky:

Welcome to advanced gestation! Since you’re new around here, I thought you’d like to know a little bit about what makes you so special. The reason is, you’re going to live your whole life in make-believe!

Do you know the fairy stories about a princess in a castle? Well, you get to be that real-life prince or princess, in a real-life castle where Mommy Chelsea is also a princess, Grandma is about to be crowned Queen, and Grandpa Bill is a retired ex-King with lots of helpful advice on ruling the kingdom, er, monarchy. (Your other grandma and grandpa were both a kind of court vassal called Congressmen. Oopsies, other grandpa, Edward Mezvinsky, even went to something called “prison,” which is kind of like a big, cozy crib! Can you say “wire fraud”? Good, you can’t! Don’t! Around here we pretend Grandpa isn’t a criminal!)

Inside the castle towers you will find that Mommy, Mommy’s mommy and Mommy’s daddy Bill are all really good at make-believe games. So you get to pretend all the time! Mommy’s mommy and Mommy’s daddy even pretend to still be married even though they’ve been living hundreds of miles apart for 14 years!

Before you were even born your mommy’s mommy pretended that it’s a completely normal thing to announce your own grandchild’s birth to the world at a joint press appearance with your mom, hosted on Skype and live-streamed. With America Ferrera!

If you’re not already nauseated, the rest of the “letter” is here.

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Politics

Aaron Sorkin – ‘America is not the Greatest Nation Anymore’ – Video

The Newsroom.

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Politics

Republican to Obama – “I am going to challenge you on the basketball court”

Republicans and now a challenging President Obama in a game of basketball – nothing else to do I guess. And the challenge is coming from someone who has experience playing basketball on a semi professional level.

“I am going to challenge you on spending. I am going to challenge you on economic growth,” said Clawson, a former Purdue University basketball player who won the GOP nomination for a vacant U.S. House seat in Florida.

“But first, I am going to challenge you on the basketball court. It’s time to man up and accept the 3-point challenge. My house or yours?”

We doubt Obama will take Clawson up on his offer, but the candidate is likely to make good on his vow to “challenge” the president on policy issues if not basketball prowess.

Clawson is now the heavy favorite to win the seat vacated by Republican Trey Radel, who resigned from Congress in January after pleading guilty to a charge of cocaine possession.

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Celebrities

People Magazine Names Lupita Nyong’o Most Beautiful Person for 2014

After hearing the news on NBC’s The Today Show,  Lupita Nyong’o replied, “It was exciting and just a major, major compliment. And especially, I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [it] and feel a little more seen.”

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News Politics

Did You Know That The Deficit Shrunk to $492 Billion

Image: DailyKos

With all the sensational news hunters in the media today, this little bit of actual news may have slipped by the rader. It’s a fact, not a lie so no one is shouting it from the hilltops. No cattle or guns are involved so this story is, for the most part, swept under the rug.

But did you know that under this president the national deficit has been cut to $492 billion this year?

Bloomberg News reports – The U.S. government’s deficit will fall to $492 billion this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a steeper drop than originally predicted from $680 billion in fiscal year 2013.

“This will be the fifth consecutive year in which the deficit has declined as a share of GDP since peaking at 9.8 percent in 2009,” CBO said in a report released today. The 2.8 figure as a percentage of gross domestic product is lower than the 3.1 percent average of the last 40 years, CBO said.

Now back to the real news – Cattle and guns.

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Rihanna Goes Topless on New Vogue Brazil Cover – PIC

Oh look! They’re wasting water! Oh yea, Rihanna is topless. In other words, she’s only wearing panties.

But look, they’re wasting water!

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China Technology

China Builds World’s Fastest Elevator

The elevator will be placed in The Guangzhou CTF Finance Center, which is currently being constructed and due for completion in 2016.

The elevator will travel 95 floors in 43 seconds, roughly two and a half floors per second.

Yes, we have the technology and the knowhow to lead the way in this field, but Congressional Republicans and… FREEDOM!

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Georgia News

Police Dog Mauled Police Officer Trying to Take a Selfie With it

Whatever you do, do not put your arm around a police dog to take a selfie with it. Doing so is apparently an act of aggression, and a Georgia Deputy from Murray County, Deputy Greg Morrison found out the hard way.

“It’s an act of aggression to them whenever you do that,’ Major Greg Fowler told the Dalton Daily Citizen, referring to Morrison’s ill advised decision to wrap an arm around the dog.

‘The canine just responded by what was presented to him based on his training.’

The dog went straight for Morrison’s chin and bit hard.

The deputy was left with a slashed lip and chin after a handler ordered him to back off the the dog quickly complied.

Morrison was rushed to an area hospital where he eventually received stitches.

‘They had to do quite a bit of stitching in the lip area where (it had been opened up) in a pretty good gash,’ Fowler said.

‘We’re praying for the deputy and everything to be fine with him. He’s recuperating well, and we’re sorry for the incident, but you train animals, you train them to do certain things, and you don’t deviate from the training.’

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Education

DC triplets can take their pick of Ivy League schools

 

Triplets Malik, Khalil and Ahmad Jones. (Photo courtesy of NBC Washington)

Malik, Ahmad and Khalil Jones are triplets who attend Georgetown Day School in Washington D.C., and they have each earned major achievements in both academics and athletics.

The brothers, who all have a 3.7 GPA, have earned acceptance into some of the nation’s most prestigious schools and only have a few weeks to make their final decision.

The impressive trio credits their success to the discipline and work ethic instilled in them from their parents and the tough competition they have among each other.

“You can’t let the other person be better than you, because you don’t want to be the worst one right?” Khalil jokingly told NBC Washington. “So, it’s kind of like we’re always pushing each other.”

Their strong bond has encouraged the three young men to work hard and in turn, they have collectively accomplished great feats. Now, they have narrowed down their school choices but remain undecided between two Ivy League institutions: Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Either way, the Jones’ brothers are definitely on a road to much success.

Malik said, “If one of them can accomplish something, then without a doubt, I can definitely do it, too.”

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Politics

Fox’s Napolitano Agreed – Banning Affirmative Action Hurt Minorities, But That’s Okay

Michigan brought Affirmative Action to the Supreme Court and today, Michigan won!

That’s right, Michigan instituted a ban on Affirmative action and took their fight to keep that ban all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court voted today and in a 6-2 decision, it agreed that Michigan should be allowed to bypass Affirmative action in the state. The ban was originally voted on and approved by the people of the state.

In her 58 page dissent, Justice Sonya Sotomayor pointed out that the decision could harm minorities and have already caused reduced enrollment in Michigan’s Colleges and Universities and Fox’s Napolitano agreed. But it’s the way he agreed that’s making news.

In his happy response to the Supreme Court upholding Michigan’s ban, the Fox host stated that although minorities could be harmed, it’s okay if the people of the state decide to harm do the harming.

The elites that run university systems think they know better than the voters do. And often these university systems – even in states that have a conservative electorate – decide that they want to tinker with the law on their own.”

Now the electorate knows that once it puts a clause in the constitution forbidding the government from making a decision based on race – you know, that thing that the Civil War was supposed to have resolved – that even the elites in the public universities would have to comply with it.”

Napolitano also addressed Sotomayor’s concern that the decision would “harm minorities” because black and Latino enrollment was already dropping at the University of Michigan.

“That’s the beauty of this decision today. It really lets the voters go either way. It doesn’t say the voters must, it says the voters may. But if the voters do prohibit the government in their states from taking race into account for say, college and law school admissions, the government in that state must comply.”

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Nut Boy Louis Gohmert Wants Attorney General Eric Holder Arrested

Louie Gohmert is a nut! A very nutty nut. And that’s the only reason he was elected to Congress, because his base – The Teaparty – loves nutty nuts!

Gohmert has said and done some nutty things too, and right up there with the rest of them is his nutty call to Congress to arrest the Attorney General,  Eric Holder.

In an interview on Friday with the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch, Gohmert, the brainchild of the Republican party called for Holder’s arrest.

“When you have someone like an attorney general who is in contempt of Congress, what can we do? Someone in contempt of Congress comes waltzing into the House chamber and he’s in contempt of Congress as found by the Congress, what can be done? I was told that actually you can pass a resolution directing the sergeant at arms to detain anyone who is in contempt of Congress until such time as they comply with the requirement that put him in contempt. In this case, they didn’t provide information from the Justice Department, they had it, they refused to provide it, we found him in contempt.”

It remains to be seen if Congressional Republicans will heed Gohmert call. After all, they are a leaderless group and anyone with something to say, no matter how nutty, gets airtime. Watch this space.

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