Let’s play a guessing game. Remember when a Republican candidate dissed half of America by putting down #the 47%?”
Who said these words?
“I see something that frankly doesn’t surprise me, having been on Ways and Means Committee: 47 percent of all Americans pay no federal income tax. I’m guessing that most of you in this room are not in that 47 percent — God bless you — but what that tells me is that we’ve got almost half the population perfectly happy that somebody else is paying the bill, and most of that half is you all.”
“I submit to you that there is a political strategy to get slightly over half and have a permanent ruling majority by keeping over half of the population dependent on the largesse of government that somebody else is paying for,”
Wrong. I know you said Mitt Romney, but this quote is not the infamous Romney quote from his failed 2012 run for the presidency. This quote was said by Bob Beauprez, a Republican candidate for governor in Colorado.
He claimed a woman in Time Square attacked him simply for taking pictures, then Anthony Cumia from the Opie and Anthony Show went on Twitter and began a barrage of racist and violent tweets calling the woman, who happens to be black, all sort of names including “whore”, “bitch” and “slut.” And those are the ‘decent’ names, compared to the other names he used.
According to tweets from Anthony, the woman and the “5 blacks” that joined her are “animals” who “prey on white people”:
Patrick Reilly, the Senior Vice President of SiriusXM issued the following statement on Friday, confirming to Buzzfeed that Anthony was in deed fired.
SiriusXM has terminated its relationship with Anthony Cumia of the Opie & Anthony channel. The decision was made, and Cumia informed, late Thursday, July 3 after careful consideration of his racially-charged and hate-filled remarks on social media. Those remarks and postings are abhorrent to SiriusXM, and his behavior is wholly inconsistent with what SiriusXM represents.
Here are just some of the tweets from Anthony Cumia that got him fired!
Sirius decided to cave and fire me. Welcome to bizarro world. Fired for shit that wasn’t even on the air & wasn’t illegal. So, who’s next?
Just hours after small forward and free agent Carmelo Anthony met with the Los Angeles Lakers, the New York Knicks had their own meeting with the player and offered him the most any team could – a five year contract worth $129 million, according to ESPN Sports.
If Melo accepts the offer, he would be one of the highest paid players in the NBA. The meeting ended with no word from Carmelo on whether he would accept the offer.
The Lakers are offering Carmelo $98 million for a 4 year contract, the highest offer they are allowed to make.
Accepting the Knicks offer would equal roughly $25.8-million a year for the NBA star, compared to around $24.2-million from the Lakers. With a little over $1 million a year difference, Melo’s decision on where to play rests more on the potential of winning a championship than the finances.
Newsday is repotting that a federal indictment accuses the state Senate’s No. 2 Republican of lying about a job he secured for his son at a law firm with an “inflated salary” partly paid by an Albany lobbying firm.
Tuesday’s indictment accuses Sen. Thomas Libous (R-Binghamton) of promising a partner of the Westchester law firm that it would have to “build a new wing” to take care of all the business the firm would receive if it hired Libous’ son, Matthew.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accuses Sen. Libous of promising to steer the business to the law firm and getting an unnamed lobbying firm to pay $50,000 a year to the law firm to help fund Matthew Libous’ salary and perks including a Range Rover vehicle.
Matthew Libous was indicted Tuesday on six counts of charges related to tax evasion
On this Independence Day they are celebrating the right to carry a gun anywhere they want in Georgia. Notice I don’t put the words “great state” in front of Georgia. That’s because it isn’t. Never really was.
Yes you can open carry your gun anywhere. Into churches, restaurants, schools, movie theaters and of course bars. As the rest of the civilized world works to bring down gun violence by instituting stricter gun laws the good ole US of A goes backwards in time. Back before the O.K. Corral. Which happened because some insane cowboys decided they didn’t want to hand in their weapons to Wyatt Earp while they were in Tombstone.
The insane cowboys don’t have to worry about that anymore because now they don’t have to hand in their weapons before they enter town. In fact they can get drunk and carry at the same time. Great country America! No not really!
But you have to wonder, I mean just think for a minute. Why now? Why weren’t these open carry laws passed by state legislatures before? Like…I dunno…when Bill Clinton was President? Or when George W. Bush was President? I mean what could the difference be now? I can’t quite put my finger on it….
Oh wait! Barack Obama, the black guy, is President! You know, the black dude who will take your guns away and give them to the Black Panthers. Am I dating myself? Oh OK..the Bloods and the Crips. Actually when those people carry weapons they are called criminals and thugs. Happy open carriers are no longer so happy. But when Billy Bob Joe Buck Billy Joe Bobby Bubba Joe carry their weapons into a Target (hopefully not anymore) or a Home Depot..well that is just them exercising their Second Amendment rights ain’t it?
Well there have already been problems of course. You see according to the new law, citizens OR police are NOT allowed to ask someone carrying a weapon to show their gun permit.
Let’s look closer at that. As of less than a year ago a police officer could stop a black person on the streets of NYC and frisk them with no questions asked. However in Georgia if someone is carrying a deadly weapon they cannot be asked to show their license to carry that weapon by a police officer. This is your America folks.
I have a question. How does someone know if the person carrying that gun is a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun? Can anyone answer that? Wayne LaPierre maybe?
I guess you just have to wait until someone takes their gun out and shoots up a store or a church or a school. Then the good guys with the guns can shoot back, maybe killing a few innocent people after the bad guy has already had time to kill a few as well. So the bad guys with the guns have to be allowed to shoot first? Is that the way this works Georgia?
The law is called “guns everywhere.” It’s a response to the paranoia around a black President taking the guns away from white folk. That and the threat of him sending in drones and the military to kill them and in the process take away their freedoms!
Of course he hasn’t taken one gun away and there have been no laws to take guns away just laws to allow more guns.
None of this matters to the gun nuts. They are insane. They are certifiable in their anti black President paranoia fantasy land.
Here is a fantasy of mine. It would be like if we were in a real life Tarantino movie. All of the gun nuts are standing in a circle, they all take their guns out, point them at one another and systematically blow each other away. This happens around the state of Georgia and anywhere else there are “guns everywhere” laws.
According to the Charlotte Observer, a body thought to be that of Bianca Tanner, the missing mother and teacher who disappeared on June 7, has been found in a wooded area in southwest Charlotte.
Police shared this information during a news conference early this morning. The body has been taken to the medical examiner’s office and police said that a positive identification will be made, as the body matches the description of the missing 31-year-old. Tanner’s boyfriend, whom she shared a home with after moving from Greensboro to Charlotte, was arrested this morning and charged with first-degree murder.
As we have shared with you before, Tanner was reported as last being seen on June 7. Her boyfriend, Angelo Smith, said that they had an argument and an intoxicated Tanner left their shared home with a bag. He reported her missing on June 8. However, Tanner’s 3-year-old son said that the night his mother disappeared, Smith physically abused her.
“Mommy got a spanking with a belt.”
“Angelo kicked mommy’s butt and made her cry.”
“Angelo is mean to mommy and hurt mommy in the face.”
Smith cooperated early in the search for Tanner, but family said that he eventually refused to talk to police without a lawyer. Feeling the heat, Smith actually left Charlotte without telling anyone, heading for his uncle’s home in Glenwood, Illinois, and leaving Tanner’s 3-year-old son behind by himself. Smith was arrested by U.S. Marshals and extradited back to Charlotte for the neglect and abuse of the 3-year-old (a charge of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor”), but he’s now facing a murder charge. When he was taken into custody again this morning, according to News-Record, Smith told reporters “I’m sorry” three times. He is being held without bail.
Relatives of Tanner’s have been informed of the discovery of the body, and the 3-year-old who provided the police with the information they needed to pinpoint the individual who could be responsible for Tanner’s disappearance is now staying with his actual father. The father does not reside in Charlotte.
On its 50th anniversary, everyone’s praising the Civil Rights Act that passed a bipartisan Congress back in 1964. Even Rand Paul had some good things to say about it. But if today’s Congress was given that opportunity to do something big, as big as voting on that bill, what would be the outcome?
Congressman John Lewis, a man who has carried the scars of a life-long struggle for civil rights, used this 50th anniversary of the law to share some unbelievable truths – that the Congress of 2014 is so partisan, so divided, that something as important as the Civil Rights Act would not even be brought to the floor for a vote.
In a tweet, Congressman Lewis said this;
And the congressman is absolutely correct. Today’s Congress – specifically the Republicans – is presently on pace to be the least effective Congress in the history of this country. They have said and demonstrated time and again, that making the president fail is more important than making the country succeed. They have lied, called him childish names with ugly racial undertones, multiple threats of impeachment and now a threat to sue the president by the Republican House Speaker, John Boehner.
These so called leaders have failed time and again to take up any of the president’s proposal, failed to agree on a single jobs bill and even failed to keep the government open, a basic requirement and part of their job description as laid out in the constitution.
If these people couldn’t agree to keep the lights on in Washington, passing a major bill like the civil rights act of 1964 is way above their qualifications.
The showdown happened on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, and it featured host Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham presented her idea that the way to deal with the immigration problem is to have mass deportation, “not by the hundreds, not by the dozens, by the thousands.” “That,” she said, “means entire families, not just the father or mother, but we keep families unified by deporting all people who are here illegally.”
O’Reilly pointed out the insanity of her statement, calling it “draconian,” and he informed the conservative talk show host that if the Republican party followed her advice, they would be doomed for years to come.
“I do believe that if you do mass deportations … that the Republican Party would become obsolete, that it would ensure Hillary Clinton’s election in 2016 because demographics don’t add up… “If you do that kind of a draconian action … mass deportation would be draconian, it would be,” O’Reilly said.
Ingham accused O’Reilly of peddling the argument of the left, and used the example of Mureitta California, where dozens of people stood in the roads blocking three buses filled with immigrant mothers and children from preceeding to processing centers.
“I think what you saw in Murietta, California, was not something that we should say should not happen in the United States,” she said. “No one wants people to spit on each other, I don’t agree with that, but the people saying ‘Oh no, you won’t do this to our community, you won’t do this to our wages, you won’t do this to our public schools,’ where do the people get satisfaction? Where do they go?”
O’Reilly maintained that if Republicans took such actions, the party would be destroyed. Then Laura chimed in with this gem.
“The Republican Party has done a good job at destroying itself by not standing up for the American worker. They’re not standing up for the regular people.”
The recovery continues as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 288,000 non-farm jobs were added to the economy in June, lowering the unemployment rate to 6.1%
The report states the jobs growth was widespread, especially in professional and business
services, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and health care.
President Obama called and congratulated the US Soccer team on their performance in this year’s World Cup. He spoke to team captain Clint Dempsey and goal keeper Tim Howard.
“I just wanted to call and say you guys did us proud,” Obama told the players. “To see the way you guys captured the hearts and imaginations of the whole country is unbelievable.”
“Clint, you were fantastic. And Tim, I don’t how you’re gonna survive the mobs when you come back home, man,” he joked. “You’re gonna have to shave your beard so they don’t know who you are.”
The USA Team lost to Belgium with a score of 2 goals to 1. In the defeat, goalie Tim Howard set a new world cup record with 16 saves.
Words were exchanged when the female driver tried to back her car into an open spot at the gas station. According to one of the victim, Marcus Chukuwuu, the words ‘Don’t kill me,” were said to the woman. She replied, ‘If I wanted to kill you I’d shoot you, I won’t run you over.”
On the video, Marcus is seen going into the gas station’s store and when he returned, the woman plowed into him and the other victim. As the two men laid on the ground suffering from their injuries, the woman casually exited the gas station and disappeared.
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