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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Immigration Politics

House Republicans Pass Bill to Dismantle Immigration Reform

The House on Wednesday voted to undo major provisions of President Obama’s immigration policy, approving legislation that would revoke legal protections for millions of undocumented immigrants. The vote drew outrage from Democrats and led more than two dozen Republicans, many worried about the perception that their party is hostile to immigrants, to break away, the New York Times reports.

The most contentious measures in the bill will most likely die in the Senate, where Democrats have said they will wage a filibuster and some Republicans are likely to join in opposition. The White House has said President Obama will not sign any bill that blocks his executive actions on immigration.

But the action in the House on Wednesday was a glimpse into how the new Republican-led Congress will navigate the divisive debate over the president’s immigration actions as lawmakers struggle to reach a compromise on funding the Department of Homeland Security. The department will run out of money at the end of February, and Republicans have said they will use the appropriations process as their vehicle for dismantling Mr. Obama’s directives.

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Politics taxes

Report: Poor Families Pay Double The Tax Rate as Rich Families

And the Republicans rejoice. They have been working for this outcome for decades!

Middle- and low-income Americans are facing far higher state and local taxes than the wealthy, according to a new report assessing tax data from all 50 states.

In all, the analysis by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) finds that the poorest 20 percent of households pay on average more than twice the effective state and local tax rate (10.9 percent) as the richest 1 percent of taxpayers (5.4 percent).

ITEP researchers say the incongruity derives from state and local governments’ reliance on sales, excise and property taxes rather than on more progressively structured income taxes that increase rates on higher earnings. They argue that the tax disconnect is helping create the largest wealth gap between the rich and middle class that has ever been recorded in American history.

“In recent years, multiple studies have revealed the growing chasm between the wealthy and everyone else,” Matt Gardner, executive director of ITEP, said. “Upside-down state tax systems didn’t cause the growing income divide, but they certainly exacerbate the problem. State policymakers shouldn’t wring their hands or ignore the problem. They should thoroughly explore and enact tax reform policies that will make their tax systems fairer.”

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Politics

New Poll – Obama’s Approval Ratings Up 7 Points Since October

The Washington Post reports that President Obama’s approval rating is up 7 percentage points since October, pulling his support out from underwater but leaving Americans still divided over the president’s leadership, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

The CBS survey has the president’s approval rating at 46 percent, up from 39 percent when CBS last polled the question in October. That rise has been particularly sharp among political independents, whose support for the president has risen 11 percent in the last three months.

The White House has had a busy few months, announcing several major initiatives that include an executive action on immigration policy and expanded diplomatic relations with Cuba. Perhaps most notably, these new numbers fall against the backdrop of positive economic trends that have elevated consumer confidence to its highest level since the 2008 recession.

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Charlie Hebdo Politics Terrorism

Top Al-Qaida Leader Takes Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Murders

They’re proud. They murder the innocent in the name of their god – a man they say was a man of peace – and they gladly proclaim the deaths as a success story. How sick is that?

A top leader of Yemen’s Al-Qaida branch claimed responsibility Wednesday for the deadly terror attack on satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) commander Nasr Ali al-Ansi said in a video message that the attack was “vengeance” for Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to the Agence France-Presse.

The AFP reported that Ansi said the group conceived of and financed the attack at the orders of al-Qaida’s global leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri. He referred to the suspects in the attack, Cherif and Said Kouachi, as “heroes.”

Ansi also channeled deceased al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in issuing the warning “If the freedom of your speech is not restrained, then you should accept the freedom of our actions,” according to the AFP.

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Charlie Hebdo Politics Terrorism

Millions Sold – New Issue of Charlie Hebdo Sells Out in Minutes

Radical Islamic terrorist tried their best to silence Charlie Hebdo in France last week by murdering 12 members of the newspaper. But that ill-conceived plot has backfired tremendously, as Charlie Hebdo is no longer just a French satirical newspaper, but has evolved into an international symbol in the fight against terrorism.

The world knows about Charlie Hebdo, and its latest publication sold out in minutes.

The satirical magazine announced last week it would continue with its weekly publication, increasing its print run to 3 million copies. The latest issue, featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, quickly sold out before dawn, The Associated Press reported. That is more than 50 times its normal circulation, with millions more copies expected to arrive.

Survivors of last week’s attacks, during which 17 Parisians were killed and many from the magazine, worked in borrowed offices to continue working on this week’s issue.

The cover features a tearful Muhammad, holding a sign that reads “Je Suis Charlie,” or “I Am Charlie,” — a line that has been invoked since the Jan. 7 attacks to show worldwide solidarity with the publication and support for free speech. The image appears below the headline “All Is Forgiven.”

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Celebrities

Miley Cyrus Bares her Bare Nipples on Instagram – PIC

You see, she’s on a new magazine cover and she wants you to buy it. So here are the nipples!

Order your issue of @vmagazine now #dirtyhippie photography @cheythom fuckkkkkk yasssssss

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Crime Politics

Ohio Bartender Threatens to Kill John Boehner

Killing John Boehner is not going to solve the problem. Boehner’s issue is not that he is alive, but that his party is. So killing the man is the wrong way to go. One must eliminate the Republican party and then, this country will see true progress.

An Ohio bartender with a history of psychiatric illness was indicted last week on a charge of threatening to murder House Speaker John Boehner, possibly by poisoning his drink, according to records made available Tuesday.

A grand jury indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Ohio on Jan. 7 identified the accused man as Michael R. Hoyt, a resident of Cincinnati.

A separate criminal complaint said Hoyt was fired last fall from his job at a country club in West Chester, Ohio, where he served drinks to Boehner, who is a member.

In a subsequent conversation with a police officer, Hoyt said that before leaving, he “did not have time to put something in John Boehner’s drink,” according to the complaint.

The court paper also said, “Hoyt told the officer he was Jesus Christ and that he was going to kill Boehner because Boehner was mean to him at the country club and because Boehner is responsible for Ebola.”

According to the criminal complaint, Hoyt said he had a loaded Beretta .380 automatic pistol and he was going to shoot Boehner. Hoyt volunteered to be taken to a psychiatric hospital, and police took his weapon.

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Charlie Hebdo Don Lemon Racism

Muslim Lawyer Thanked Don Lemon For his “offensive, racist dumb-ass question”

After the shooting in France where 12 people were killed by Islamic extremists, Don Lemon brought a Muslim lawyer and activist on his CNN show to discuss the events. But something stood out in Lemon’s interview that had everyone talking – that fact that he asked his guest, Arsalan Iftikhar, if he supports ISIS. The question it seems was placed to Iftikhar simply because he was a Muslim.

Surprisingly, Iftikhar stayed on set and completed the interview, but he wasn’t done with Don Lemon. In an open letter written Monday, Iftikhar thanked Lemon for his “patently offensive racist dumb-ass question” that made him “famous!”

“Now to be completely honest with you, I totally thought that I had misheard him because surely there was no respectable journalist in the world who would ask a Muslim human rights lawyer whether he supports an organization which violates human rights each and every day,” Iftikhar wrote in the Islamic Monthly, where he is a senior editor.

“But then I remembered that I was dealing with Don Lemon,” he wrote.

Iftikhar — whose last piece for the magazine before Lemon invited him on was “Let’s Call ISIS The Un-Islamic State,” slamming the terror group — wrote that “such an obviously absurd question certainly deserves no response.”

He closed the letter with a flourish.

“It is a sincere honor to be added to the litany of famous ‘Malaysian-black-hole-penis-biting’ Don Lemon media gaffes which can be added to his audition tape for his next job at FOX News Channel,” Iftikhar wrote.

“So from the bottom of my heart,” he added, “I want to publicly thank Don Lemon for making me famous with his patently offensive racist dumb-ass question.”

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Featured

Wife Chops Off Her Cheating Husband’s Penis… Twice

It wasn’t meant for him to have a penis. He was apparently using it for other reasons, like making other women happy and his wife was having none of it. So she took matters… and his penis, into her own hands.

Fan Lung, a dad of five, sealed his fate when he decided to use his wife’s cellphone to send his secret lover a hot and heavy email, Central European News reports.

The 32-year-old forgot to log out of his account after the message was sent, which is how his 21-year-old wife, Feng — who is now under arrest for grievous bodily harm — came across the saucy exchange and snapped.

The jilted wife went berserk, grabbed a pair of scissors, stormed into their bedroom and cut off his penis while he was sleeping.

Lung was rushed to the hospital, where doctors were able to save the appendage and sew it back on.

But Feng was able to sneak into the recovery room, where she chopped his penis off a second time and threw it out the window, according to CEN.

A shocked Lung chased his wife outside, despite losing a lot of blood.

“Staff rushed out to see what was happening and found the patient with blood streaming down his legs hitting the woman,” a hospital spokesman said. “He was stopped and the woman was taken in for treatment, and then we discovered she had chopped his penis off again.”

Despite desperate search efforts, authorities were unable to find Lung’s manhood. Police believe it may have been stumbled upon by a stray dog or cat, according to CEN.

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Politics

Republican DA in Eric Garner’s Case will Run for Michael Grimm’s House Seat

And of course, the Republican delegation in New York supports his candidacy.

The district attorney who oversaw the investigation into the police-involved death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., announced Friday that he would run for the congressional seat vacated by Michael G. Grimm, who pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion.
Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan Jr. said he decided to enter the race after noticing a groundswell of support for his candidacy over the last week.“The enthusiasm for my candidacy has only broadened and intensified, with expressions of support also from beyond the two boroughs,” he said in a brief statement Friday afternoon.
He is the first person to officially announce his candidacy for the seat, which serves Staten Island and part of Brooklyn.Grimm, a Republican, resigned from Congress this month after pleading guilty to a single charge that stemmed from a 20-count indictment accusing him of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service and concealing more than $1 million in revenue.
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gun control Gun Control shooting

Responsible Police Officer Shoots off His Finger in Responsible Gun Store – Video

Now you can’t get more responsible than this, right? This must be what the NRA was referring to when they talked about good guys with guns – a Police officer and a gun shop owner.

The incident shown on the video below happened in Southern Kentucky when police officer Darrell Smith visited the Barren Outdoors in March and inquired about a .380 handgun. The clerk took the gun from the display and handed it to the officer without performing any safety checks on the weapon first.

The responsible officer, who is supposed to be especially trained in handling firearms, took the gun and neglected to check if the device was loaded. Moments later, the gun goes off in the officer’s hand, blowing off part of his finger.

Needless to say, the officer filed a lawsuit against the gun shop owner and he also lost his job.

“He’s permanently disfigured,” said Alan Simpson, the attorney representing the police officer. “He went through a lot of pain and suffering, He’s gone through several surgeries. He’s got a lot of medical bills that have to be paid. It ended his career and he’s going to have a lot of lost income.”

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Featured

Police Arrest New Jersey Man for Filming a Car Accident – Video

Andrew Flinchbaugh found out the hard way that there are cops out there who think they can confiscate your personal property without just cause or even a warrant.

Andrew came upon a single car accident in Ocean County New Jersey and began filming.

Flinchbaugh, who has contributed in the past to a local news Web site, claims he was given permission to film by those first on the scene. However, one police officer seems to have taken exception to Flinchbaugh’s presence.

Flinchbaugh posted a 10-minute video of the events to YouTube and the footage appears to show him cooperating, while refusing the police’s principal request: to give them his camera as “evidence.”

As NBC 10 reports, the police officer in question was a detective from the Ocean County prosecutor’s office. Though Flinchbaugh offered to give him a copy of the video, for reasons that are still unclear, the detective wanted the camera.

He believed it was his legal right to take the camera. When Flinchbaugh refused to give hand it over, the detective arrested him for allegedly obstructing administration of law.

“I refused because I believe that that’s our First Amendment right,” Flinchbaugh told NBC 10.

When the officer threatened him with arrest, the video shows that Flinchbaugh calmly said: “Then you’re going to have to place me under arrest.”

To this, the detective replied: “Don’t push me like that.”

Flinchbaugh and his camera were released. Moreover, Ocean County prosecutor Joseph Coronato told NBC 10: “It would be my opinion that we’ll probably be dismissing the charge.”

He added: “We never would have looked at the video without getting a search warrant and, based on our information, we didn’t have the legal right to get the search warrant at that point.”

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