TMZ got their hands on the audio of the recent brawl the Palins were involved in a little over a month ago. And like any respectable news agency, they posted it for all to hear!
Here are your Palins, freshly involved in a brawl!
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Day: October 21, 2014
Of course we all know that no one aspires to make the minimum wage, but Republicans far and wide are going on television these days proclaiming just that, that having a minimum wage job means that you are lazy, and incapable of aspiring for something better. Some Republicans even had the nerve to say that minimum wage work is not real work.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Tuesday that he’s “tired” of hearing discussion on the minimum wage and seemed to suggest that a higher minimum wage isn’t something to “aspire to.”
“I gotta tell you the truth, I’m tired of hearing about the minimum wage, I really am,” Christie said during an event at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, according to a recording of his remarks by the liberal opposition research group American Bridge.
“I don’t think there’s a mother or father sitting around a kitchen table tonight in America who are saying, ‘You know honey, if my son or daughter could just make a higher minimum wage, my God, all our dreams would be realized,” he added. “Is that what parents aspire to for their children?”
The governor went on to say that parents aspire to an America where their children can make more money and achieve greater success, according to The Hill. He said those aspirations weren’t about a “higher minimum wage.”
Personally, I would never put Rush Limbaugh in the news business, but a new survey from Pew Research finds that Rush Limbaugh is America’s least-trusted news source. And who does America trust most?
Thirty-nine percent of respondents to the Pew poll say they don’t trust Limbaugh, a bombastic conservative radio voice. Fox News follows closely with 37 percent saying they don’t trust the network. Glenn Beck ranks third, with 24 percent of respondents saying they distrust Beck.
The Pew survey was conducted March 19-April 29.
The five major news networks top the trust spectrum, with 54 percent of respondents saying they trust CNN, 50 percent saying they trust ABC and NBC, 46 percent saying they trust CBS and 44 percent saying they trust Fox News.
Forty-four percent of respondents say they get their news from CNN.
Judge Thokozile Masipa also gave Pistorius a three-year suspended sentence for a firearms charge.
The parents of Reeva Steenkamp told the BBC they were happy with the sentence and relieved the case was over. The defence said it expected Pistorius to serve about 10 months in prison.
Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide but cleared of murder.
Prosecutors had called for a minimum 10-year term, and the defence had argued for community service and house arrest.
Pistorius showed little reaction to the sentence other than to wipe his eyes before being led away to the cells downstairs.
He was then driven away from court in a police van to Pretoria’s Kgosi Mampuru prison.
The President went to Chicago and decided to do some early voting. For those who are still unaware, the midterm election is just a couple of weeks away on November 4th!
Apparently, a young couple decided to vote early too and found themselves voting right next to the president. As the president began the process of casting his ballots and minding his own business, the girl’s boyfriend walk past and advised the president not to try anything with his girlfriend.
“Don’t touch my girlfriend,” the guy said to the President. He was later identified as ‘Mike.’
“I really wasn’t planning on it,” Obama said, as he joked with the woman voting in the next booth. She was later identified as Aia Cooper, Mike’s girlfriend. “There’s an example of a brother just embarrassing you, just for no reason whatsoever.”
“And now you’ll be going back home and talking to you friends; what’s his name?” the president asked.
“Mike,” Cooper said.
“‘I can’t believe Mike. He’s such a fool,’” Obama said, impersonating the woman.
“He really is,” she agreed.
Obama continued: “‘I was just mortified. But, fortunately, the president was nice about it. So it’s all right.’”
“I am freaking out right now,” she said, laughing.
The president got the last laugh, though.
“Give me a kiss and give him something to talk about,” the president said, as he gave Cooper a hug and a peck on the cheek. “Now he’s really jealous.”
But Cooper downplayed the moment.
“He gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Just the cheek,” she told ABC’s Chicago station WLS. “Please, Michelle, don’t come after me!”
Although there have been no new Ebola diagnosis in the United States in the past 5 days, Republicans have been on the rampage, ginning up fear and hysteria over the disease and claiming that Democrats are the ones causing the apparent “outbreak.”
It should be noted that so far, a grand total of two infections were contracted here in the United States. But that fact hasn’t stopped Republicans from calling for travel bands from South African countries and claiming that ebola victims are pouring through the southern borders and it is clearly Obama’s fault.
Then there was a total disbelief in how the CDC was handling the “outbreak” as Republicans, led by John McCain, suggested that the only way to stop the massive ebola infections would be for the president to immediately appoint an ‘Ebola Czar,’ and any failure to do so would lead to the ultimate destruction of these United States.
Yes, the fear machine was in full throttle.
But what about a Surgeon General? Wouldn’t such a person be the ideal to provide information and deal with Ebola? Where is the Surgeon General and why have we heard absolutely nothing from him?
Because Republicans have blocked his confirmation and they are blaming the president for that too.
Over a year ago, the president tapped Dr. Vivek Murthy to be the new Surgeon General. His confirmation has been blocked by Republicans and to believe Ted Cruz on CNN, Murthy should not even be considered for the job because he’s not qualified. But of course that too is a lie.
This is how the conversation went down on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley;
CROWLEY: Do you think it would have helped … had there been a surgeon general in place to kind of calm what has become the fear of Ebola?
CRUZ: Look – look, of course we should have a surgeon general in place. And we don’t have one because President Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti- gun activist.
To hear the Texas Republican tell it, Dr. Vivek Murthy isn’t even a “health professional,” which is the exact opposite of reality.
Outside of far-right politics, the facts are not in dispute.
Murthy is an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. He’s also the founder of TrialNetworks, an Internet portal for clinical-trial operations that counts Merck and Biogen Idec as customers. Earlier, he helped start a rural community health program in Sringeri, India, and an HIV/AIDS youth education program in India and the United States. He went to Harvard for his undergraduate degree and Yale for medical and business degrees.
None other than George W. Bush’s former Surgeon General described Murthy as “superbly” qualified for the post, pointing to his “impressive track record of accomplishments.” The executive director of the American Public Health Association argued that Murthy is “clearly qualified to succeed” in all of the major roles of the Surgeon General.
When Cruz suggests Obama failed to nominate “a health professional,” the senator has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
As for the Republican argument that Murthy is “an anti- gun activist,” again, reality proves otherwise. Murthy believes gun violence is a public-health issue – as do most medical professionals, including Ronald Reagan’s Surgeon General – but it’s never been the principal focus of his work in medicine.
The nation has been without a Surgeon General for over a year, and it seems increasingly obvious that the vacancy is having a detrimental effect. No fair-minded observer could possibly question Murthy’s background or qualifications – his confirmation hearings were a breeze – but literally every Republican in the Senate refuses to even consider the doctor because the NRA told them not to.
Republicans own this. Blaming the president for their ridiculous antics might make the right feel better, but it’s nevertheless absurd.
With the November elections just weeks away, I thought I’d let you know something about some of the candidates on the various ballots. An educated voter usually makes the right choice.
Let’s go to Wisconsin. The candidate we will be looking at today is Brad Schimel, the Republican candidate for Attorney General in Wisconsin. Raising the minimum wage is going to be a huge issue in the November elections, so let’s see where Schimel stands on raising the wage issue.
Speaking to a group of supporters at a Milwaukee County Republicans party gathering, Schimel said;
“I want every one of our neighbors to have a job again, a well-paid job, so we don’t have to argue about minimum wage for someone working at Burger King. Let’s get them a real job.”
In other words, minimum wage jobs like those in the food industry are not “real jobs.” So don’t expect Schimel to support raising the minimum wage for the millions of Americans trying to support their families on one of these fake jobs.
Vote wisely folks.