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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Economic growth Politics

Good News – Jobless Claims at 8 Year Lows

There are multiple reasons why the jobless claims data fall. The best reason however, is confidence in the economy, which leads to economic growth, which leads to fewer jobless claims being filed.

The number of unemployed workers applying for jobless benefits tumbled in the most recent weekly data to the lowest level in more than eight years, signaling that employers are letting go of very few workers.

Applicants for regular state unemployment-insurance benefits in the week that ended July 19 dropped by 19,000 to 284,000 — the lowest level since February 2006, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected initial claims of 310,000 in the most recent weekly data.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury 10_YEAR +1.98%    edged higher, indicating traders growing slightly more confident in the economy.

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Featured

Man Loses His Penis While Being Circumcised

This cannot be the outcome he was going for, it’s definitely not a good look.

Johnny Lee Banks Jr. of Birmingham and his wife, Zelda Banks, filed the lawsuit Tuesday. They’re suing the hospital, doctors and others for medical malpractice.

The lawsuit says Banks went to Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham last month for a circumcision. The suit alleges the man’s penis was gone when he awoke.

The suit says that the mistaken amputation has caused the man extreme pain, and that his wife also is suffering.

The suit names the hospital, a urology group, a medical clinic and two doctors as defendants. It’s seeking an unspecified dollar amount.

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Barack Obama Politics

President Obama to Democrats – Boehner is Speaker Because “y’all didn’t vote!”

“You thought, ‘OK, we elect Barack and that’s it,’” Obama told a crowd of big-dollar donors gathered in the lush Hancock Park backyard of TV producer Shonda Rhimes. He reminded them that he’d warned that it wasn’t about electing him but about getting “our democracy to work.”

“I have got to have a Congress that has some sense and is willing to work and is willing to compromise and is focused on the American people. And we don’t have that right now.”

Obama is often candid about what he describes as Democrats’ chronic problem: low turnout in midterm elections. But his remarks Wednesday came with a sharper ribbing for a crowd he seemed to think could take it.

Democrats like the fun of a presidential campaign, Obama said. But “we’ve got to step it up in the midterms. Not when it’s easy, not when it’s sexy, not when there’s hope posters….”

While Democrats “don’t even know there’s an election,” Obama said, Republicans get to the polls.

“Lo and behold we’re surprised when John Boehner is speaker of the House! What happened to Nancy Pelosi? What happened is y’all didn’t vote. And that’s when all kinds of … stuff happened,” Obama said, pausing as if deliberating on whether to keep the rant clean. “That’s what it was — stuff.”

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Healthcare ObamaCare Politics

Boehner Admits – Republicans Don’t Have a Replacement Plan for Obamacare

They have been gunning after the Affordable Care Act since it was signed into law by President Obama over four years ago. One would think that a party so energized around the idea if ending Obamacare would have a replacement plan already in place.

But you would be wrong if you thought Republicans had a way for you to have or maintain your healthcare after they take away the one you already have. House Speaker John Boehner dashed the hopes of those who thought Republicans had a plan – “not there yet,” Boehner said.

Said Boehner;

“You know, the discussions about Obamacare and what the replacement bill would look like continue. We’re trying to build consensus around one plan,” the Ohio Republican told reporters. “Not there yet.”

Yep. Not there yet, not there ever! That’s how the Republicans are working for you.

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Barack Obama Politics

The Only Two Presidents to Reduce the Deficit in The Last 50 Years – PIC

I know this will come as a surprise to the fake Fox News followers, but the facts are indisputable.

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News

Another Plane Goes Missing -116 Passengers On Board

Now this is really becoming ridiculous.

An Air Algerie plane carrying 116 passengers lost contact with air traffic controllers about an hour after leaving Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso late Wednesday evening.

Air Algerie Flight AH5017 was supposed to land in Algiers at about 5:00 a.m.

At the time of its disappearance the flight would have been over Mali, a nation under a threat warning from the Federal Aviation Administration due to insurgent fighting. The FAA has warned that flying below 20,000 feet leaves jets vulnerable to rocket fire. However, one source told the Associated Press that Mali rebels lacked the sophisticated weaponry to shoot down an airliner. (The same was said about Ukrainian separatists after the downing of MH17.)

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Arizona Featured Politics

Cruel and Unusual Punishment Exhibited in Arizona’s Botched Execution

The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly states that Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The Amendment was originally designed for the federal government, but the section about cruel and unusual punishment was adopted by the states.

The execution that happened in Arizona yesterday is clearly the definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

When describing Arizona execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood, a reporter Troy Hayden of Fox 10 News, said it was “very disturbing to watch … like a fish on shore gulping for air. At a certain point, you wondered whether he was ever going to die.”

The process at the state prison in Florence began about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and dragged on long enough that, more than an hour after the execution started, Dale Baich of the Federal Public Defender’s Office sent two other lawyers out to file an emergency motion asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to halt it, saying it violated Wood’s Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment. The motion noted that Wood “has been gasping and snorting for more than an hour” after being injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs.

Wood died before the appeals court responded.

“The experiment failed,” Baich said to reporters as he left the execution chamber. In a statement later, he added that “Arizona appears to have joined several other states who have been responsible for an entirely preventable horror — a bungled execution.”

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Featured Racism

Eric Garner Was Laid To Rest Today – PICS

Eric Garner in happier times

The man who lost his life to a chokehold given to him by New York Police, was laid to rest today.

RIP Eric Garner.

Eric Garner’s Mother

Eric Garner in happier times
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Politics

Jon Stewart Slams John McCain – Challenges Him to A “Wrong Off” – Video

What’s a “Wrong Off” you ask? Well, it’s where opposite sides come together and point out areas where the other side have said something that turned out to be wrong. In this case, Jon Stewart is challenging Republican Senator John McCain because in an interview on Sunday, McCain threw the first hit at Stewart, implying that no one cares or pays attention to Stewart because Stewart is often wrong on the issues.

Stewart took offense to McCain’s statement and the challenge was born.

Will the Republican Senator accept the challenge? Don’t bet on it! He already know he would lose against Stewart. After all, Stewart is not exactly Fox News!

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Racism

Black Shopper Records Store Employee Following Him Around -Video

Why? Because he’s black?

Footage of shop workers following a black teenager because they ‘presume he’s stealing’ have become a viral sensation after being shared more then 20,000 times.

The two videos posted on Vine by Rashid Polo show him walking around convenience stores with ‘racist’ employees behind keeping a close eye on his movements.

During the clips, they appear to check the shelf Rashid has just browsed, making sure everything is still there.

Video

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Politics

Word On The Street – David Gregory Will Be Fired From Meet The Press

Page 6 is reporting that the departure will happen right after the midterm elections in November, and Chuck Todd will be the new host of ‘Meet The Press.’

While NBC News President Deborah Turness has publicly supported the embattled Gregory, there are serious concerns about the losing battle to turn around the show’s sinking ratings.

Viewership is down a whopping 43 percent compared to when Gregory ascended to the moderator’s chair in December 2008, after the death of Tim Russert. The show finished in third place behind CBS’s “Face the Nation” and ABC’s “This Week” in the second quarter of 2014.

An NBC source said, “The discussion is whether to make a change before or after the midterm elections. Just after the midterms would give the new moderator time to settle in.”

According to insiders, NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd is the rightful heir to Gregory, but he has not been officially offered the job.

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Featured Politics

Michele Bachmann Hints She May Run for President in 2016

Lol… as if the present stock of Republican candidates aren’t looney enough, looney tunes herself is hinting that she may run again in 2016.

In an interview with RealClearPolitics, Michele Bachman said that all the media does is speculate that only Republican men are running for president.

“The only thing that the media has speculated on is that it’s going to be various men that are running. They haven’t speculated, for instance, that I’m going to run. What if I decide to run? And there’s a chance I could run.”

Well, end the speculations Bachmann, make the announcement. There is always room for one more in the Republican clown car.

Up next, Mitt Romney and Herman Cain!

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