Like you may have heard, Ted Cruz formally announced his intentions to run for president in 2016. I’ll wait for the laughter to stop.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Ok, I can’t wait anymore. We don’t have all day you know.
Moments after Cruz made his announcement in front of a reported 10,000 students at the Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, another report stated that these students had to attend the event to avoid being fined. But with such a demand for mandatory attendance, some in the audience could have been angry and could have missed Cruz’s speech. They were there physically, but mentally…?
Well we are here to help. So let’s take it to Jon Stewart for his two-cents on this two-cents Republican candidate.
Shock and Awe? No, not really. It would be shock and awe if you didn’t know who you are dealing with. These are Republicans and we have learned not to put anything past these folks. Today, Ted Cruz announced a run for the presidency and now we are learning that the audience he spoke to were only there to avoid being fined.
Sen. Ted Cruz took the stage to declare his presidential candidacy at Liberty University Monday, surrounded by upwards of 10,000 cheering students. They weren’t all here by choice.
Attendance at convocation at Liberty is mandatory, and a group of students clad in “Stand With Rand” shirts sat center stage—directly in view of the cameras—to log their displeasure with having to be here.
“Of course, you want it to appear as if you have a large audience,” said Eli McGowan, who organized the not-so-subtle protest. “We felt like if we didn’t wear shirts showing our true political preference then the media might think we all supported Cruz.”
“They make you come. If you don’t come, you get punished,” said Ana Delgado, a sophomore, who said students face a $10 fine for not showing up at convocation. Delgado wasn’t among those wearing Paul gear. She is undecided about who she’ll support in 2016, but she didn’t like being forced to be part of Cruz’s announcement.
If a place was going to do it, it had to be Texas. But hold on to your horses, don’t go riding off into the sunset just yet. It seems these signs, displayed on various stores and restaurants, are the work of a few racist people and not sanctioned by the city of Austin ot anyone in power – at least that’s what Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, said.
“This is an appalling and offensive display of ignorance in our city,” Adler said in a statement. “Austin condemns this type of hurtful behavior. Our city is a place where respect for all people is a part of our spirit and soul. We will keep it that way.”
Bearing a striking resemblance to the official logo of the Texas capital, the stickers demands that only a “maximum of five colored customers” are allowed in the store at any given time with exception given of course, to “colored” store employees. And below that, the words… “sponsored by the City of Austin” is proudly displayed.
At least eight stores showed the sticker. They have since took those stickers down.
A daredevil on a motorcycle taunted officers and performed stunts at speeds over 100 mph as he led police on an hour-long pursuit in Southern California, the NY Post reports.
The entire high-speed chase was caught on camera Wednesday night and shows the “crazy” motorcyclist standing proudly on his bike’s seat with his arms spread wide in the air. Moments later, he turns back and appears to egg on the cops, gesturing to them repeatedly.
Rancho Cucamunga resident Phillip Resendez, 22, was eventually arrested and booked for driving on the wrong side of the road and failure to yield after he pulled over and surrendered at a gas station, according to NBC Los Angeles.
At one point during the pursuit, Resendez — who was riding a Honda — can be seen parked in a cul-de-sac, acting completely cool as helicopters hover overhead. He nonchalantly takes his helmet off, puts his earbuds in and then takes off just as patrol cars approach him.
Later, he appears to even slow down and chat with two motorcycle cops who are riding next to him. But the fun and games abruptly came to an end once Resendez finally pulled over.
“I just want to say I love my family and my two baby girls,” he told CBS Los Angeles, moments after being taken into custody. “I’m sorry I disappointed them and put them in the middle of all of this.”
But Resendez didn’t look too remorseful sitting in the back of a cop car. Wearing a shirt with a marijuana leaf, he can be seen smiling from ear to ear as he stares directly at news cameras.
The man was drinking with friends in the area of 4600 West and Dunsmore Way and showing them his gun at the time of the fatal accident, said West Valley police spokeswoman Roxanne Vainuku.
The man took the magazine out of the gun and pulled the trigger while pointing it at his own throat, Vainuku said. Emergency workers responded to the scene about 7:45 p.m.
The man’s name wasn’t immediately released Friday night.
Vainuku said all indications are that the shooting was accidental.
He didn’t appear to express any sort of suicidal thoughts. … At this point it looks like a simple accident,” she said.
Nobody else was hurt in the incident.
“Never point a gun at another person – even if you have the magazine out of the gun, as we see with that incident tonight,” Vainuku said. “It turned out to be a deadly decision.”
The California Governor went on this week’s Meet The Press and spoke at length about Climate Change, and the fact that California is going through its own version of Climate Change with a massive drought, when he was asked to respond to a claim by Ted Cruz.
Meet The Press host Chuck Todd played a clip of Cruz questioning the authenticity of global warming, where Cruz implied that scientists and other authorities on Climate Change are wrong. Todd asked the governor to respond. Governor Brown’s response was priceless.
“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data. It’s shocking and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office.”
Cruz is expected to announce his intentions to run for president tomorrow.
I keep saying ‘Canadian born Ted Cruz’ because that is just a fact, although some would argue that fact does not disqualify Cruz from running for President. I am just flabbergasted that there are still some who, without any proof whatsoever, disqualifies Barack Obama from being president because they assume he was born outside the United States. But these same people however, will vote for the Canadian born Cruz in 2016.
But I digress
Senator Ted Cruz is expected to announce his run for the Republican nomination for president on Monday. The Teaparty loved Republican has made waves among fellow Republicans and Democrats alike, and even orchestrated the last Republican government shutdown in 2013, the exact quality Republicans are looking for in their next president – a president who can shut down the government.
In addition to shutting down the government, Cruz is also one of the biggest oppositions to President Obama and has opposed everything Obama has done since he became president. Cruz’s opposition to Obama’s healthcare reform for example, is legendary. And he has vowed to do everything possible to take away this healthcare from the 16 million Americans currently enjoying it.
Yes, a president capable of shutting down the government and taking away healthcare from millions of Americans? That is the Republicans’ dream!
It’s Saturday, so I’m going to do what I can to upset a few Republicans. Here’s one story that is sure to achieve that goal – according to US Secretary of State, there is “substantial progress” being made in the Iran nuclear talks. Watch Republicans flip out on this good news!
The United States and Iran reported significant progress Saturday toward a nuclear agreement, with the Iranian president declaring a deal within reach. America’s top diplomat was more reserved, leaving open whether world powers and Tehran would meet a March 31 deadline.
Speaking after a week of nuclear negotiations in Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry challenged Iran to make “fundamental decisions” that prove to the world it has no interest in atomic weapons. Amid conflicting statement by officials about how close the sides were, Kerry said, “We have an opportunity to try to get this right.”
The talks “have made substantial progress,” Kerry told reporters, “though important gaps remain.” Talks with Iran resume next week.
In Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was more optimistic. “Achieving a deal is possible,” he said. “There is nothing that can’t be resolved.”
And now a message from the Republican brain, Louie Gohmert.
On Thursday’s edition of Washington Warch, the Texas Republican told host Tony Perkins that “we need to encourage this administration to go take out Iran’s nuclear capability” instead of pursuing negotiations: “I think it’s time to bomb Iran.”
“We need to make clear to Iran: You can play these silly games with our president that buys into them and our secretary of state, but the American people aren’t buying it and you’re going to pay a price,” Gohmert said.
“I’m hoping and praying the president will realize, despite the agenda he has that has put Christians in jeopardy around the world, that he will not want to leave the Democratic Party so devastated that they won’t recover for many decades, that maybe he’ll start being more helpful to Israel instead of slapping them around as an unwelcomed visitor and start treating them like a friend. And maybe once he starts doing that he’ll realize we do need to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities that we know of and anything that they move to fix, we bomb that as well.”
Leave it up to the mastery of Jon Stewart to use Fox News against Fox News.
When the Justice Department released its findings on the Ferguson incident where Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Mike Brown, it also highlighted the backbone of the Ferguson Police Department’s money stream – racism, where blacks were targeted with bogus charges and fined heavily for those charges.
Yet, over at Fox News, the emphasis was misplaced like it often is at the Republican network. Fox spent countless hours demanding an apology from the Justice Department and the rest of the media for saying Mike Brown had his hands up when he was killed, a claim the Justice Department found to be… unfounded.
Stewart skillfully took this same Fox outrage and directed it at another well disputed favorite Fox story – Benghazi. And Stewart wondered why Fox News fails to admit that their Benghazi money-maker – although well debunked by all credible agencies as a total Fox fabrication – warrants the same apology.
Of course, that apology will never come, and Fox will continue pushing the same failed and debunked Benghazi narrative because, for whatever reason, people watch Fox and advertisers go where the people are.
The ruling came Thursday from the New York Supreme Court after formal requests were made by civil rights groups, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society the city’s public advocate, and the NAACP.
“The failure to indict the officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner has left many wondering if black lives even matter,” NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman said in a statement. “Sadly, today’s decision will only leave many asking that same question again.”
Veteran New York Supreme Court Justice William E Garnett said in the ruling that he did not believe the civil rights lawyers had established a compelling enough reason for warrant a disclosure of the grand jury minutes.
“What would they use the minutes for? The only answer which the court heard was the possibility of effecting legislative change,” he wrote. “That proffered need is purely speculative and does not satisfy the requirements of the law.”
The Garner family was not a part of the petition but supported calls for the release of the grand jury transcripts. Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, and his daughter, Erica Garner were present in court for the oral arguments.
Okay, here’s the lead up to the Ludacris and Jeb Bush encounter!
Apparently, Ludacris’ foundation is doing some great charitable work so he was invited to the House of Representatives in Atlanta GA., for a formal recognition of said work. Jeb Bush was there on other business and someone thought it would be great if Bush was seen with Luda. Let’s call it their black outreach attempt.
The meeting happened and a pic was taken. Then Jeb tweeted with excitement that Luda was his “opening act!”
As he is leaving statehouse, Ludacris is asked which Bush is his favorite. His response: “The one outside.” #gapolpic.twitter.com/7tCh12qiOc — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 19, 2015
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