President Obama continued calling out the no-good, non-working Republican Party in Congress. This time, correctly blaming them for not doing anything to improve our crumbling infrastructure.
“I haven’t heard a good reason for why they haven’t acted,” Obama said of the lawmakers in a speech in front of the Key Bridge, which connects Washington to Arlington, Virginia. “It’s not like they’re busy with other stuff.”
The president once again stood his grounds in reference to using his constitutionally awarded executive order authority, and he dared Boehner to go through with his lawsuit.
“As long as they’re doing nothing, I’m not going to apologize for doing something,” Obama said. He added, “So sue me.”
There are too many examples online showing Rand Paul speaking up against the civil rights movement. Simply googling it, I came up with a multitude of examples. This one however, seems to dominate the search engines.
In was an interview with NPR, Paul displayed his utter ignorance when it comes to civil rights.
Questioner: But under your philosophy it would be okay for Dr. King to not be served at the counter at Woolworths?
Rand Paul: I would not go to that Woolworth’s, and I would stand up in my community and say it’s abhorrent. um… But the hard part, and this is the hard part about believing in freedom is, if you believe in the First Amendment, for example, you to, for example– most good defenders will believe in abhorrent groups standing up and saying awful things, and we’re here at the bastion of newspaperdom (sic) and I’m sure you believe in the First Amendment, so I’m sure you understand people can say bad things. It’s the same way with other behaviors. In a free society we will tolerate boorish people who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
In Rand Paul’s world the benefits awarded under the civil rights act would not apply to those who needs it most.
His sentiments prompted a response from Joan Walsh. She said said Paul and the Tea Party “wants to revoke the Great Society, the New Deal and the laws that were the result of the civil rights movement.”
But Paul is running for president in 2016 and and right now he is in damage control mode. His feelings about the civil rights act have apparently changed. This is what he said today.
“Tomorrow, July 2nd, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is simply unimaginable to think what modern America would be like if not for the brave men and women who stood up for the rights of all Americans. This legislation changed the future of our nation by enforcing the belief that all men and women are created equal. We must continue to build an America that our children-of every race, creed and color-deserve.”
When you’re at this stage of the game, playing on this level for the World Cup, the last thing you want to say after the game is that your goalie is a great goalie.
Yes, having a great goalie is definitely an asset, but after the game is over you don’t want the saves of your goalie to be the story.
Tim Howard, the goal keeper for the USA team, was the only player in today’s elimination game against Belgium, who played his heart out and that’s saying something about his teammates, the guys responsible for defending the goalie. Howard was able to stop 16 shots against him, setting a World Cup record, but the team still lost because there was no one defending him or helping to protect the goal.
I commend Howard. After the game he was praised his teammates, calling them a great group of guys. And although that might be true, they need to learn how to defend the goalie.
Belgium won the game scoring 2 goals. The US scored 1. But if it wasn’t for Howard, the score would have been 18 to 1.
In New York City, the cannibal cop who was convicted of planning to kidnap, kill and eat young ladies might be on his way home because he was just fantasizing.
On Monday, Judge Paul Gardephe ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to support Gilberto Valle’s 2013 conviction.
According to the Daily News, Valle was acquitted of kidnapping conspiracy charges, among other charges, for which he would’ve faced life behind bars. Prosecutors presented search results where he’d combed the web for “how to knock someone out with chloroform and where to get torture devices and other tools.” He even used a police database to find potential victims, which carries a one year maximum sentence in itself.
But Valle’s lawyers asserted that all of the evidence, including fetish chats about roasting women like turkeys and using a human head as a fashionable center piece, was just fantasy and convicting Valle would set a dangerous precedent if people could be prosecuted for their thoughts.
Dude, if someone is plotting to kidnap, cook and eat me, please put them under the jail America.
I never understood why anyone with a brain would even call themselves a Republican. Luckily though, this chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans, came to his senses and resigned his post and “will be changing my party affiliation to Democrat in the next few days.”
Evan Alvarez resigned his post this morning, which was made public by a release sent out by MFCR with a copy of his resignation. In the letter, he says that tea party activists have too much of a voice in the party, “and because of that, the platform of the Republican Party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion.”
In a separate email to me, he says he has already begun talking with Democrats about joining their party.
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