The Senate passed their version of immigration reform over a year ago, but House Republicans have failed to address the Senate’s bill or any bill containing the words immigration reform.
“Unfortunately, Republicans in the House of Representatives have repeatedly failed to take action, seemingly preferring the status quo of a broken immigration system over meaningful reform,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House.
“I urge House Republicans to listen to the will of the American people and bring immigration reform to the House floor for a vote,” Obama said.
He repeated that plea in a private conversation with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican said.
The Senate legislation, unveiled on April 16, 2013, and passed by the full Senate in June, has remained stalled in the Republican-led House, despite a strong vote by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The incident happened back in December when an African American student said that he would like to follow in the footsteps of President Obama. The teacher was placed on suspension after telling the student, “we don’t need another black president.”
During a hearing into the incident on Thursday, The Fairfield Board of Education in Ohio voted 4-0 to terminate Freshman science teacher Gil Voigt.
According to the Associated Press, Voigt is accustomed to making such statements and the committee referenced some of these incidents as unacceptable in their recommendation to fire the teacher.
Fairfield Superintendent Paul Otten said in a statement, “The District felt that the evidence was sufficient to support the termination of Mr. Voigt’s employment. The referee recommended such termination, and the board has concurred.”
In a joint appearance with her mom Hillary Clinton, daughter Chelsea made the announcement that she and her husband Marc were expecting their first child this year.
“I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me,” Chelsea Clinton said, according to the Washington Post.
Former president Bill Clinton took to Twitter and expressed his excitement with this tweet:
“Excited to add a new line to my Twitter bio…grandfather-to-be! @hillaryclinton and I are so happy for Chelsea and Marc!” he wrote.
And still, the Republicans are stuck on stupid! They’re still talking about repealing a law that is helping the economy, and helping millions and millions and millions of Americans! And as they talk about repeal, they have no idea on what to replace the law with if they somehow manage to repeal it.
President Obama announced Thursday that 8 million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, calling the feat a success story that Democrats should “forcefully defend and be proud of” in the face of Republican election-year attacks on the law.
The enrollment figure, revised upward from the 7.5 million signups that the administration had announced earlier this month, renewed hopes at the White House that Democrats will be able to overcome the initial rocky rollout of the health law in the fall as they battle to maintain control of the Senate in the midterms this fall.
“This thing is working,” Obama said at an afternoon news conference. Of the GOP, he added: “They said no one would sign up. They were wrong about that. They are wrong to try to repeal a law that is working.”
The final figure is well above the White House’s initial target of 7 million signups.
Republicans, who have fought the law since it was passed by a sharply divided Congress in 2010, escalated their call for the law to be repealed after the problems with the enrollment Web site, which repeatedly broke down in its first few months. Obama’s job approval ratings dropped, and Democrats worried that the bad headlines would harm the party at the ballot box.
But a buoyant Obama said the better-than-expected enrollment news should convince Democrats to not shy away from embracing his signature domestic achievement.
“I don’t think we should apologize for it, and I don’t think we should be defensive about it,” he said. “I think it is a strong, good, right story to tell. I think what the other side is doing and what the other side is offering would strip away protections for those families.”
And you thought lack of human decency was exclusive to some here in America.
Welcome to Australia, where a 21 year old driver, busy sending over 40 text messages, somehow found a cyclist and unintentionally introduced her car to the man. The driver drove for another 100 yards, found parking for her now damaged car and then, called for help.
The cyclist suffered a spinal fracture which required surgery and placement in a spinal cage at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital. He was originally told he could be left a paraplegic and spent three months recovering.
She was fined $4500 for the hit, but it’s what she told the officers two days after the accident that’s making news.
According to reports, the woman is upset, not because the texting distracted her and caused the accident, but because the cyclist somehow damaged her car.
“I just don’t care,” she told the police. “Because I’ve already been through a lot of bullshit and my car is like pretty expensive and now I have to fix it.
“I’m kind of pissed off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist. I wasn’t on my phone when I hit the cyclist.”
This is how you become a true gangster rapper… I guess. Do something no other rapper can claim.
Rapper Andre Johnson severed his penis and jumped from a Los Angeles apartment building early Wednesday, police said.
Johnson was seriously injured, but survived the fall from the second level of the building in North Hollywood, Los Angeles Police Sgt. William Mann said.
Johnson, along with his recovered penis, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated, Mann said.
Details about what triggered the incident were not available.
Johnson has been a member of Northstar, a Long Beach, California, hip hop group that was part of the Wu-Tang Clan family, according to the Wu-Tang Clan website. He performs under the name Christ Bearer.
His recording credits include “When the Guns Come Out,” which was included on the soundtrack of the 2004 film “Blade: Trinity,” according to the Internet Movie Database.
And yet, another reason for the nitwits in the Grand Old Party to blame Obama. This time, they’re accusing the president of inciting a right-winger into killing Jews.
Erik Rush, another favorite of the far right Republicans and a competing voice of Republican reasoning, has figured out the real reason for the shooting at two separate Jewish facilities where three people were killed last weekend. As far as he is concerned, it’s all Obama’s doing.
On his radio show Tuesday, Rush accused the Obama administration and the media of promoting “anti-Israel sentiment” and “fomenting racial discord between various races.”
“The anti-Semitic tone that is being tolerated, in my view, by so many in this country and as a result of the tone I believe that the administration and the press have set, they’ve chosen to capitalize on every racist incident that has happened when it is in the interests of their agenda or their ratings, fomenting racial discord between various races, between blacks and whites and the anti-Israel sentiment has become pretty much epidemic,” Rush said. “I’m kind of surprised that we haven’t seen more in the way of anti-Semitic violence.”
Warning! If you insist on taking a selfie next to an oncoming train, beware! You might get kicked in the head by the conductor!
That’s what happened to this teenager when he had the marvelous idea to stand close enough to the tracks to take his now infamous selfie. The video was rolling as the train approached. The teenager, looking seriously into the camera was smacked in the head when a shoe, apparently still attached to the train’s conductor.
“Wow, that guy just kicked me in the head!” the teen says, the serious look he previously had, gone. “I think I got that on film!”
Yes brains, you got it on film.
Again, stay a safe distance when conductor with shoes are on the trains!
This happened in 2010. I cannot remember seeing or hearing about it, but these right-wing hate mongers calling themselves “Christians,” were so against their fellow Americans getting the opportunity to buy private health care, that they gathered in Washington and prayed to God for Divine intervention in killing Obamacare.
And it wasn’t just the regular nuts that prayed, no, the irregular ones prayed too. Georgia Republican Congressman Jack Kingston joined in the insanity.
Is “The Married Carters’ Holy Grail” tour coming to a city near you? Well, if God so loved the world, then yes. Yes, it is.
According to Page Six, Mr. and Mrs. Carter will be hitting the road together, and baby Blue is coming along for the ride. The hip-hop power couple is reportedly scheduled to embark on a 20-stadium tour in June, before closing out their quick run in July.
Together, Beyonce and Jay Z have more than a half-dozen collaborative songs together, including Beyonce’s smoking hot “Drunk In Love.” Both Jay Z and Beyonce are fresh off their own solo tours. While Jay Z’s “Magna Carter” tour ended in January, Beyonce’s “The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” recently ended in March
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