Author: Ezra Grant

I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!

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Mitt Romney Politics

Republican Explains – Minimum Wage is for “Minorities,” Unskilled People Worth $7 an Hour

He is a Republican Representative from California named, Tom McClintock. And in an interview with C-SPAN on Thursday, McClintock went there with his Republican ideology in public, saying that the minimum wage is for “minorities,” teenagers and other unskilled people no work experience. And those people do not deserve more than $7 an hour.

He was answering a question from the host who asked if he would support Mitt Romney in 2016 seeing that Romney has flipped and is now calling for a raise in the minimum wage. Yes folks, Romney is now pushing to raise the minimum wage! The New York Times reports that Romney is vowing a campaign to “end the scourge of poverty” if he runs for president a third time, has backed raising the minimum wage over the wishes of congressional leaders.

“It’s not supposed to support a family. The minimum wage is that first job when you have no skills, no experience, no working history. That’s how you get into the job market, that’s how you develop that experience, develop that work record, get your first raise, then your next raise, then your promotion.”

“If your labor is an unskilled person just entering the workforce is worth say $7 an hour at a job and the minimum wage is $10, you have just been made permanently unemployable,” McClintock says. “That first rung of the economic ladder has been ripped out and you can’t get on it. That is a tragedy.”

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Louie Gohmert Politics

Report – Louie Gohmert Illegally Took Campaign Funds for Personal Use

I knew there was something about Gohmert that didn’t pass the mustard test. Besides being a Republican, it seems Gohmert might also a thief. The man allegedly stole campaign funds and used those funds to pay for a trip to England. Funds amounting to over $5400.00

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint after Gohmert’s campaign listed expenses for a trip to London in November and December.

The lawmaker’s campaign reported that it spent $5,451.39 at the five-star Andaz Liverpool Street hotel, $396.12 at the Old Bank Hotel in Oxford, and $234.54 for a taxi ride in Cambridgeshire.

Gohmert held speaking engagements while in England with the Cambridge Union Society, the Rothermere American Institute, the Federalist and Henry Jackson Societies, and a joint group from the U.K. House of Lords and House of Commons.

None of those events were related to campaign activities, CREW said in its complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics.

“Rep. Gohmert’s legendary tirades may put him in high demand for public speaking engagements, but that doesn’t give him license to bill a luxury London vacation to his campaign,” said Anne Weismann, CREW’s interim executive director. “The congressman can’t credibly claim that speeches made to those who can’t vote for him served the purpose of getting him reelected.”

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exercise Politics

Harry Reid on Running in 2016 – “I fully intend to run”

Soft spoken Harry Reid, the Democratic Senator from Nevada who lost his position as Senate Majority Leader to Mitch McConnell, dispelled all rumors that he will not be running for re election in 2016. According to Mr.Reid, “I fully intend to run.”

Senator Reid suffered severe injury to his right eye and several broken ribs while exercising at his home on New Years Day. He is scheduled to undergo surgery next week to move some broken facial bones, but told reporters the he and his doctors expect that he will make a full recovery.

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Politics

No Conceal Carry Permit? No Problem in Kansas

Another victory for the NRA. Kansas lawmakers have introduced a bill that will make it legal for anyone to carry a concealed gun even if that person has no permit.

Just another way to get a gun into the hands of anyone who wants one. Criminals are all welcome.

Twenty-six of the Kansas Senate’s 40 members introduced a bill Wednesday to end the permitting requirement. The lead sponsor is Majority Leader and Nickerson Republican Terry Bruce.

Bruce said it makes sense to allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit because they already can carry firearms openly. He said the measure advances gun rights.

Lawmakers last year prohibited cities and counties from restricting the open carrying of firearms, though state law didn’t ban the practice. The state has issued concealed carry permits since 2007

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Tid Bits

Sandy Hook Elementary Murderer’s Home Will be Demolished

The home where Adam Lanza lived will be demolished. Lanza, the crazed gunman who slaughtered 26 kids and educators in a Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown Connecticut, also killed his mother at the home.

CNN reports that the Newtown City Council voted unanimously to tear the house down. The house is valued around half a million dollars.

Lanza’s killing spree is considered one of the worst school shootings in America’s history.

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Politics

Malcolm-Jamal Warner on Bill Cosby Allegations – “painful to watch my mentor go through this”

One of the staples of The Cosby Show, ‘Theo Huxtable,’ broke his silence on the many sexual allegations against Bill Cosby, saying that although hearing women talk about sexual abuse is “painful,” Jamal Warner said that seeing and hearing the things coming out against his friend and mentor is “just as painful.”

“He’s one of my mentors, and he’s been very influential and played a big role in my life as a friend and mentor,” Warner, who once played Theo Huxtable, told Billboard magazine in an interview published Wednesday.

“Just as it’s painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it’s just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this,” he added.

Warner went on to talk about Cosby’s personal kindness to him, the comedian’s television legacy, and “[w]hat he’s done for the black community and education.”

“That’s the Bill Cosby I know,” he said. “I can’t speak on the other stuff.”

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Politics

Jon Stewart Takes on The Republican Responses to State of The Union Address – Video

There are a lot of people in the Republican/Teaparty/Rand Paul/Whatever party, leaving a very confused Jon Stewart to asked, “How many f*cking people are at this tea party?”

Stewart’s confusion came from the fact that not 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, but 5. FIVE different responses to Tuesday’s State of the Union address came from that other party and still, no one knows what their message was.

Speaking about the rebuttal labeled ‘the official Republican response’ that was given by Joni Ernst, Stewart wondered if the address wasn’t more suitable as an “application essay to Nostalgia University.”

“That seemed like less of a response to the president’s address than an application essay to Nostalgia University,” Stewart said.“‘Nostalgia University: It was better when your dad went there.’”

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Politics

Cop Caught Napping for 3 Hours is Confronted by Student – Video

Of course the officer denied that he was sleeping, but the student was pretty sure that the officer, sitting in his patrol car, did not leave the parking lot for at least 3 hours.

Watch what happened after Matt Fedora, a student at Southern Illinois University, approached the Carbondale cop and questioned why he is sitting in his patrol car for “the past 3 hours” and not out there fighting crime. To make a long story short, the cop vehemently denied he was sleeping, and then told the student that it was “illegal” to videotape a sleeping police officer.

“It’s perfectly legal to video (record) people in public, specifically police officers,” said Jane Adams, a Carbondale city councilwoman.

Carbondale Police Chief said that matter is being investigated.

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Education Entertainment Martin Luther King Jr Movie Movies selma

Yes, Students Can See ‘Selma’ for Free

The producers of Selma have teamed up with Black business leaders from around the country for an unprecedented initiative to give students free access to the Oscar-nominated film. So far, nearly 100,000 middle schoolers have taken advantage of the program in cities like New York, Atlanta, Miami and New Orleans, BET reports.

Due to popular demand, many more cities have been added to the program and nearly 120,000 tickets made available. To get their free ticket, students in the 7th, 8th or 9th grade can show their student ID or report card at any of the participating theaters. For a complete list of cities and theaters, visit SelmaStudentsTickets.com.

The expansion has been inspired by the overwhelming success of the program in New York City, in which 27 African-American business leaders created a fund for 27,000 of the city’s 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to see the film for free. That effort sold out in the very first weekend.

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Politics

Sen. Joni Ernst’s Family Took Almost Half a Million Dollars in Government Subsidies

Yeah, she grew up poor alright. So poor that Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican Senator who gave the Republican’s official response to the State of The Union Address, said that as a kid, she had to put “plastic bread bags” over her “one good pair of shoes” to keep them from getting wet when it rained.

Reports now shows that Senator Ernst family collected almost half a million dollars in farm subsidies from the United States government.

Farm subsidy records indicate that the freshman senator’s father, Richard Culver, has received $38,395 in commodity subsidies and conservation payments, with all but $12 of the money being used for support of his corn crops. Ernst’s uncle, Dallas Culver, has reportedly received $250,000 in federal corn subsidies and $117,141 in additional aid. And her paternal grandfather, Harold Culver, got an additional $57,479 in aid between 1995 and 2001.

Ernst did not mention her family’s use of federal programs during her response to the State of the Union. Instead, she said she was raised “simply” and taught to live within her means.

“I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” she said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet. Our parents may not have had much, but they worked hard for what they did have.”

She later promised that the new Republican-controlled Congress would “propose ideas that aim to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget.”

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Climate change Climate Change

Congressional Republicans Admit – “Climate change is real and is not a hoax”

But don’t worry Republican voters, this coming to their senses is only temporary. When they campaign in their next elections, these same Republicans would tell you all that climate change is a hoax, and like the faithful sheep that you are, you will love them for it.

Lord help us all!

The Senate on Wednesday voted that “climate change is real and is not a hoax” as Democrats used the Keystone XL pipeline debate to force votes on the politically charged issue ahead of the 2016 elections.

The “hoax” amendment to the pipeline bill from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) passed 98-1, with only Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, the chairman of the campaign operation for Senate Republicans, voting “no.”

In a surprise, the Senate’s leading skeptic of climate science, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), voted in favor of the amendment — but made clear he doesn’t believe humans are the primary driver of climate change.

The GOP “yes” votes also included three of the GOP’s leading contenders for the White House: Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.).

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Report – No Civil Rights Charges to come against Darren Wilson in Mike Brown Shooting

The New York Times is reporting that the Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his civil rights chief, Vanita Gupta, will have the final say on whether the Justice Department will close the case against the officer, Darren Wilson. But it would be unusual for them to overrule the prosecutors on the case, who are still working on a legal memo explaining their recommendation.

A decision by the Justice Department would bring to an end to the politically charged investigation of Mr. Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Missouri authorities concluded their investigation into Mr. Brown’s death in November and also recommended against charges.

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