Yes, this is news you need to know. You just never know when this topic will come up and imagine how smart you’ll appear when you broadcast that 46 year old Byron Schlenker of New York, broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Widest Tongue.
Don’t worry about who held the record before Byron broke it, that really doesn’t matter. No one is going to have a conversation with you about who has the second widest tongue. If someone asks about that, tell them to get a life!
And he wants to do the same thing for the nation!
New Jersey had its credit rating cut one step by Standard & Poor’s, handing Chris Christie his eighth downgrade, the most ever for a Garden State governor.
The reduction to A, the sixth-highest level, with a stable outlook follows a Sept. 5 downgrade by Fitch Ratings. It gives New Jersey the same general-obligation grade as California, which is on track for an upgrade as revenue exceeds Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s estimates. Only Illinois has lower ratings than New Jersey among U.S. states.
“New Jersey continues to struggle with structural imbalance,” S&P analyst John Sugden in New York said in a statement today. “The governor’s decision to delay pension funding, while providing the necessary tools for cash management and budget control, has significant negative implications for the state’s liability profile.”
Christie, a 52-year-old Republican in his second term, broke his promise this year to make $2.5 billion in extra pension payments in fiscal 2014 and 2015 to help trim unfunded obligations. He has called for more changes to the plan as costs for employee benefits crowd out other state spending.
They invited the Republican mad man was invited to speak at a conference for Middle Eastern Christians Wednesday night. Consider that the first mistake they made. As if they didn’t know that Ted Cruz was a pompous and egotistic maniac, eager to pander to a group if there is the slightest chance they can further his own political needs, the Middle Eastern Christians booed the Republican congressman when he began talking about his love of Israel.
Apparently Cruz did not do his homework on acceptable topics when pandering to Middle Eastern Christians.
“Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” was the comment that got the boos going.
Cruz, who cannot get his feelings hurt stormed off the stage like the little spoiled brat who cannot get his way. But before he exited left, as the boos rained down from the rafters, Cruz left the audience with these chilling words, a warning to be precise. “If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews,” he said. “Then I will not stand with you. Good night, and God bless.” And off he went!
Oh the calamity!
Jay Carney, the former Press Secretary for President Obama made his debut on CNN as a political commentator last night, after the president’s address on deaking with the ISIL threat
Sam Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief said in a statement.
“Jay’s unique experience as both a journalist and a White House press secretary make him an invaluable voice for the network as we cover the final two years of the Obama Administration and look ahead to the coming campaigns.
“We’re fortunate to have Jay on our air tonight to provide analysis and insight surrounding the President’s address to the nation.”
In his own statement, Carney said that he was “thrilled to be joining CNN at a time when there is so much happening in the nation and the world.”
President Obama addressed the nation tonight, saying that he has the necessary authorization to fight against ISIL without Congress making a vote on the matter, but he asked Congress to join him in the fight.
Watch the full speech here.
Only in New York!
Took a break for lunch today and decided to go out for a slice of pizza or something. As I walked west on 57th Street to 6th ave, this caught my attention. I had to share.
Here is a man. A white man and he’s angry. Here is a white man who is angry, and he gas a gun!
OMG! The angry white man with the gun is confronting the police! With all we’ve heard about the trigger happy police these days, what do you think will be the end result for this angry white man with a gun, picking a fight with the cops? Someone is sure to be slaughtered, right?
This just goes to show the double standards in today’s society. Can you imagine if the color of the man was different? What would happen to him if he were black or latino?
Well you don’t have to imagine. Eric Garner was just standing in his neighborhood when he was attacked by police, taken down and killed when a police officer applied and illegal choke hold.
Mike Williams, another black teenager was murdered by another cop, having at least 6 bullets pumped into his fleeing body simply because he was walking in the street.
Trayvon Martin was walking in his father’s neighborhood and because he fit a stereotype, he was followed and murdered by a cop wannabe.
Santiago Hernandez was sitting when police descended on him, beat and pepper sprayed him for because they claimed he “resisted arrest.” Then then dropped the charges, leaving Santiago bruised and bloodied.
These are just some of the recently publicized examples of this double standard, but there are countless more happening daily that we never hear about.
But back to our story.
A 63-year-old white man, clad in pajamas, was waving a large gun around, threatening people and understandably scaring the bejesus out of them. Several called the cops, who showed up in a cruiser and attempted to convince the man to “put the gun down,” so they could talk to him.
He was having none of it, and though what he says cannot be heard on the video, it is clear he is making some sort of a statement about his rights to openly carry this weapon. The officer acknowledges his “open carry” rights, but says the man is not allowed to cross the street. That’s jaywalking. The man flips the bird to the police and toward the camera, makes masturbatory gestures, and keeps the assault rifle over his shoulder. He’s having none of it. The cops keep trying to talk some sense into him, and tell him he is “scaring people.” The man says, “shoot me.” The cops don’t.
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I have a Note 3 and I’m already too accustomed to friends calling it “a flat screen TV!”
“How can you walk around with that thing by your ears,” they’ll asks, always laughing and joking about how big the thing is. “I can’t even fit it in my pocket” is often the next phrase and the jokes will continue. Then they’ll pull out their little iphones and the comparisons would start.
But I’m always the last one standing, because at the end of the discussion or argument in some cases, they all gravitate to my big screen, usually speechless by the quality of my pictures, high-definition videos, the exceptional processing speed and the ease at with everything flows. By this time, their little iphones with sub par processing and below average picture quality are tucked away in their pockets, hidden from sight.
All hail the Samsung!
So Apple unveiled their big screen iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus today, and a small screen smart watch because the big screen Samsung with their Galaxy and Note products is a big hit with consumers. People don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for a device they have to squint their eyes to see, so with today’s release Apple is finally getting with the times and attempting to cut into Samsung’s hold on the big picture.
The iphone 6 comes in with a 4.7 inch screen, a tad smaller than the 5.1 inch Samsung Galaxy S5 and the iphone 6 plus has a 5.5 inch screen. And they also unveiled a smart watch or “AppleWatch too!
To my friends, welcome to your very own personal flatscreen TV! I doubt your resolution can compare to mine though! I’m pretty sure you will still be in awe, watching HiDefination programming on my TV Note!
Photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call
So we may be heading for another war, have you heard? A war with the terrorist group called ISIS. And as such, and according to the United States Constitution, Congress should be the ones making the final decision for war. Congress should have a debate and vote on any military engagement with ISIS.
But Congress is filled to the brim with cowards. Spineless politicians whose only focus is securing their own longevity even at the expense of the American people. Let me rephrase that… especially at the expense of the American people.
So although the Constitution demands that Congress stand up and do their job, the job they were elected to do, chances are that the cowards would cower and bury their heads under a rock until the President makes his decision… again!
Take what Jack Kingston had to say for example. And his sentiments are so true when talking about these congressional cowards. Now Kingston said that he is willing to take a vote on military action against ISIS, but listen to the his words when describing the thinking of his fellow congress members.
“A lot of people would like to stay on the sideline and say, ‘Just bomb the place and tell us about it later. It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.”
Again, longevity. These people are willing to put aside the Constitution in order to secure another couple of years in Congress. And it makes you wonder, if they don’t want to do their job, why are they trying so hard to keep that job?
Sometimes, politics stink!
In this nation of immigrants, Pat Buchanan – who is not a native Indian as far as I can tell – is comparing immigration to the ISIS terrorist group, and Buchanan thinks immigration in America is more dangerous.
While talking with Conservative talker, Laura Ingraham, Buchanan said, “Look, we’d better realize here that the United States itself is in tremendous long-term danger.”
He continued,
“I think, and the bleeding border along our southern border, the mass movement of people from all over the world into this country, the decomposition of this country socially and culturally, politically, all of these things, it seems to me, are far greater long-term threats to the United States than even those dreadful characters over there in Syria or Iraq beheading people,” Buchanan said in audio captured by WorldNetDaily.
Buchanan went on to echo Phyllis Schlafly’s warning that new immigrants will largely vote Democratic, thereby destroying America.
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The Ravens club apparently wants nothing to do with the man who was seen on security camera knocking out the woman he later married.
After releasing Rice from his contract with the team, this message showed up on the official twitter account of the Baltimore Ravens, a message to anyone who may have a Ray Rice jersey:
I was talking to someone this morning about this whole Ray Rice incident that captivated the nation. And this person said something to me that I hadn’t thought about before and that is, “if Ray Rice could come out in public and knock his then fiancée unconscious, then only God knows what goes on behind closed doors.”
And that thought came back to mind again after reading that Rice’s wife, Janay Rice, is upset. Not at her husband and the fact that she almost lost her life at his hands no, she is angry at the media for reporting on the incident.
Classic battered woman syndrome – protect the abuser!
A day after TMZ released the full video showing exactly how Ray Rice knocked her unconscious, Janay Rice took to her Instagram account to not only defend her husband, but also to express her utter frustration with the media for covering the incident.
“I woke up this morning, feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I’m mourning the death of my closest friend. But to have to accept the fact that it’s reality is a nightmare itself. No one know the pain that the media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family. To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret everyday is a horrible thing.”
No, don’t try to view the Instagram post, Janay’s profile is private. But a screenshot of the post was captured by Jeff Zrebiec, a Ravens beat writer for the Baltimore Sun, and tweeted out on Twitter.
Here is the screenshot of Janay’s full message;
