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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For Knicks’ Fans, We Get Local Bragging Rights – Yawn!

The New York Knicks had a disappointing season, loosing games they should have won and waiting until the last minute in too many games to mount their impossible comeback. But when it came to playing the Brooklyn Nets, the Knicks were apparently up for the challenge. And there is a reason for that… bragging rights.

After winning the final game against Brooklyn, a game and a win that was meaningless to the fan considering the fact that the Knicks are out of the playoffs, J.R Smith explained that bragging rights do matter.

“Hell yeah! I mean, I’m cool with some of those guys over there, so I can still say something when we’re in the gym this summer. As long as I can say they didn’t beat us that many times, we’re good.”

For the record, national bragging rights are far more important and appealing than local bragging rights. Ask any fan of the game and I’m sure they’ll agree that bringing home the championship title is far more important than saying you beat the Nets in the regular season.

Beating the Nets is not even a consolation prize for crying out loud, but apparently for the Knicks fans, it’s all we have these days.

The Knicks prevented the Nets from clinching the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs and won their third straight in their too-little, too-late strong finish.

Yay!

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Report – Casual Marijuana Use Has Negative Effects on The Brain

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Casual, as in a one to two times a week for a few months. The researchers at Harvard Medical School found that parts of the brain responsible for emotion, motivation and addiction were negatively affected when cannabis was introduced.

Researchers carried out detailed 3D scans on the brains of students who used cannabis casually and were not addicted and compared them with those who had never used it.

Two major sections of the brain were found to be affected.

The scientists found that the more cannabis the 40 subjects had used, the greater the abnormalities.

Around 10 million people in Britain, almost a third of the population, have used illegal drugs, with cannabis the most popular. The research author, Dr Hans Breiter, professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said: “This study raises a strong challenge to the idea that casual marijuana use isn’t associated with bad consequences. Some people only used marijuana to get high once or twice a week.

“People think a little recreational use shouldn’t cause a problem, if someone is doing OK with work or school. Our data directly says this is not the case.

“I’ve developed a severe worry about whether we should be allowing anybody under age 30 to use pot unless they have a terminal illness and need it for pain.”

The team examined sections of the brain involved in emotion, motivation and addiction in 20 students who had used cannabis and 20 who had not. Anne Blood, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, said: “These are core, fundamental structures of the brain. They form the basis for how you assess positive and negative features about things in the environment and make decisions about them.”

The changes are thought to be the first steps towards addiction as the brain alters the way it perceives reward and pleasure, making ordinary experiences seem less fulfilling compared with drug use.

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Fox News Outrage – Because of Obamacare, People Must Now Wait to Buy Healthcare

Fox News has something else to complain about. They are now blaming Obamacare for the people who chose to remain uninsured past the enrollment cycle. You know, those same folks Fox News told not to buy healthcare.

On the so-called “news” network’s website, this was written;

There is yet another ObamaCare surprise waiting for consumers: from now until the next open enrollment at the end of this year, most people will simply not be able to buy any health insurance at all, even outside the exchanges.

Apparently, the concept of an enrollment cycle is foreign to the good ole folks over at Fox. Of course, the rest of us already know that enrollment in health insurance happens every year and anyone who missed or failed to enroll because, they listened to Fox for example – would usually wait for the next enrollment cycle. But according to the foxers, Obamacare is now the culprit.

I still cannot figure out why their audience continue buying their bull!

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Healthcare ObamaCare Politics

More Obamacare Good News – More Deficit Reduction, More People Insured Than Expected

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Did you know? Obamacare, also known as the ACA will reduce the federal budget even more than the CBO initially reported. Also, more people will be covered than initially thought. Also, the Republicans are dead set on repealing the whole thing.

In 2010, it estimated that Obamacare’s costs to the federal budget between 2014 and 2019 would hit $759 billion. That figure has steadily declined with each revision. The new figures project “a net cost of $36 billion for 2014, $5 billion less than the previous projection for the year; and $1,383 billion for the 2015–2024 period.” That last figures is “$104 billion less than the previous projection.”

It also projected an increase to the number of people gaining coverage under Obamacare — though a modest one. Compared to its February estimates, the CBO now assumes that 7 million more people will gain coverage under the Obamacare exchanges. In total, it projects that “12 million more nonelderly people will have health insurance in 2014 than would have had it in the absence of the ACA” — an increase that appears to be independent of the spike in Obamacare enrollments at the end of March.

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Rush Limbaugh Thinks Hillary Clinton Planned The Shoe Throwing Incident

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You see, I have my own theory on this whole shoe throwing incident last week involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

If you ask me, I think that the incident was staged. But unlike Rush Limbaugh who seems to think that the Clintons arranged the whole thing because, they’re the Clintons, I think it was staged by some disgruntled conservatives who can’t get over the fact that George Bush was the only US President to have a shoe thrown at him – a sure sign if disrespect.

My theory is, these conservatives assume that Hillary Clinton, being a Democrat and the next presumptive president of the United States – should join George Bush at the bottom of the ranks by having a shoe thrown at her.

But that’s just my theory. This is Rush Limbaugh.

On his radio show, Limbaugh discusses the incident with a caller.

The caller’s theory was based on Clinton’s “little girl” reaction to something that she said should have made the former secretary of state feel more “fear and anxiety.” Limbaugh admitted to the woman that he hadn’t seen the video — only the still photo on The Drudge Report — but based on that he agreed with his caller’s assessment.

“I can totally relate to those who believe that everything the Clintons do is staged or choreographed,” Limbaugh told is audience. “But I’m sorry, I’m ill-equipped to comment, I haven’t seen it,” he added, saying he hasn’t “cared enough” to seek it out

“Maybe it’s because, in my subconscious, I think it was staged, or set up, or whatever,” he said. “I don’t know why anybody would be throwing a shoe at Hillary unless maybe it’s an attempt to make the Benghazi people look like nuts and lunatics and wackos.”

Ah… Rush, you people already look like nuts and lunatics and wackos!

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Pastor John Hagee – Tuesday’s “Blood Moon” Could Signal The End Of The World

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Texas mega church Pastor John Hagee is sounding the alarm – Tuesday, as in tomorrow, could be the beginning of the end!

On Tuesday, there will be the first of four eclipses referred to as “Blood Moon” because of the way the sun, earth and moon will align. This to the pastor is significant, prompting him to ask if ” this the end of the age?”

Hagee quoted a passage from the Bible – Acts 2:19-20: And I will show wonders in Heaven above and signs in the Earth beneath, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

“I believe that the heavens are God’s billboard, that he has been sending signals to planet Earth,” he explained. “God is literally screaming at the world, ‘I’m coming soon.'”

Hagee predicted that the four eclipses were signaling a “world-shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015.”

“God sends plant Earth a signal that something big is about to happen! He’s controlling the Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal, but the question is, are we getting it?”

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Celebrities dead

RIP Jennifer Lopez is Trending on Twitter

Calm down folks, Jennifer Lopez is still alive and kicking.  But for some strange reason,  the hash tag #RIPJenniferLopez is trending.

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Chris Wallace Politics

Breaking News – Fox News Has Had Enough of The IRS Crap

Something very interesting went down on the Fox News network on Sunday. It appeared the Fox people are beginning to come to their senses – as impossible as that may seem – and they are beginning to question the authenticity of their Republican man made IRS controversy.

On Sunday’s program, Chris Wallace interviewed Republican Representative Charles Boustany and based on his questions, I would concluded that the IRS nonsense has reached the point of Fox skepticism, even for the nonsense-pushers themselves.

WALLACE: Congressman, let me interrupt you, too, if i may. Because a lot of people … including some Republicans, some of your colleagues say that your committee and the House Oversight Committee have blown this because of the fact that you should have given Lois Lerner immunity. I mean, let’s face it — nobody really cares what Lois Lerner did, the question is did she get it from higher ups or just the decision by a mid level bureaucrat in the IRS? Why not give her immunity a year ago under subject, of penalty of perjury and say were you given direction by anybody above you?

BOUSTANY: Well, that is a debatable point. And it’s worthy of discussion. But the fact is we’re still being obstructed by the IRS. We’ve now gone through two — we have two confirmed IRS Commissioners and two acting commissioners and we have still not gotten all the documents that we need to conclude this investigation. The fact is I want to follow the facts, on this, from the ground up starting with the Cincinnati office. we’ve had good interviews.

WALLACE: You’ve had a year, sir. You’ve had a year.

When Fox News becomes tired of your BS, perhaps it is time to give it up.

Watch the clip below to see Wallace grill Representative Boustany.

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Politics

James Carville – If Republicans Lose in 2016, The Party Will Be Over

James Carville has some words of wisdom, not necessarily for the Republicans or the Republican party, but for anyone with some sense who is willing to listen.

According to Carville who appeared on a Sunday roundtable on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Carville said if the Republicans lose the presidential election in 2016, they might as well pack it up and go home… forever!

“Trust me,” Carville said, “the party knows, and I use this word advisedly, that if it loses the 2016 presidential election, the Republican Party as we know it today will be extinct.”

“We heard that in 2008, too,” said Republican apologist Laura Ingraham, who was also on the panel with Carville.

“This will be the sixth out of seven elections in which they’ve lost the popular vote,” Carville replied. “The Republicans want to win this. That will be the biggest issue in January 2016: how can we beat Hillary Clinton?”

The end of the Republican party is enough reason to vote Democratic in 2016!

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This Woman Offers an Interesting Reward for Finding her Missing Cat – Pic

She must really love that cat. This woman in her posting admits that she has “no cash for reward,” but said that she’s “great at BJs,” and apparently is willing to prove how “great” she is by performing her skill on the lucky [man] I assume, who finds her missing feline.

What if a woman finds it?

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Featured Politics

Right Winged Militia Helps Rancher Defy Court Order – Video

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They came armed with their shotguns and pistols, and whatever other pieces of weaponry these right wingnuts have. They descended on the ‘Bundy Ranch’ as its being called in social media – lands that in fact, belongs to the federal government.

Their mission? To help the cattleman Cliven Bundy defy a court order to vacate the lands owned by the government.

Back in 1998, Cliven Bundy, a cattle herder from Navada was ordered by the courts to remove his livestock from federal land known as the Bunkerville Allotmen. Bundy was also ordered to pay $200 a day per cattle if he did not follow the court order. Bundy refused to and continued his grazing activities.

Then in October 2013, fifteen years later, another order from the court was given. This time, Bundy had 45 days to comply. He again refused, in fact, Bundy expanded his grazing activities to include other federally owned lands. A third court order was issued pointing to this fact.

According to the third order;

“Bundy’s cattle have moved beyond the boundaries of the Bunkerville Allotment and are now trespassing on a broad swath of additional federal land (the “New Trespass Lands”), including public lands within the Gold Butte area that are administered by the BLM, and National Park System land within the Overton Arm and Gold Butte areas of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.”

After 15 years and multiple court orders demanding Cliven Bundy vacate federal lands, Rangers – under the authority of the court and armed with stun guns – began rounding up and removing the livestock.

Last Saturday, 352 cattle were impounded and that was when all he’ll broke loose!

They came out of the woodsheds. Armed right-winged Republican nuts, lovers and defenders of the constitution, came determined to help Bundy defy a constitutionally protected court order.

“We provide armed response,” said Jim Lordy, who belongs to the militia group called Operation Mutual Aid. He continued, “[w]e need guns to protect ourselves from the tyrannical government!”

Other militias like The Oath Keepers also promised to send support to the lawbreaking cattle herder.

It worked.

The latest update from Montana is that “the government has suspended their enforcement action because militia activity was posing a danger to employees and the public.”

Bundy, emboldened by this “win” is however taking things a step further. He wants the Rangers rounding up the cattle to disarm. And furthermore, he is demanding that they leave their weapons with him. He gave them 1 hr to comply.

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Woman Who Threw Shoe at Hillary Clinton Released

No, assault charges were not filed against the woman who threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton this week in Las Vegas. In fact, she was released today.

Alison Michelle Ernst, 36, who was booked at the Clark County Jail, has been freed after receiving a misdemeanor disorderly conduct summons.

Ernst could face up to a year in the county lockup if she is convicted of violating a county ordinance during the Thursday incident at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.

She is accused of bypassing security and walking quickly toward a rope line about six rows from the front of a conference audience. Police say she reached into a purse, removed the shoe and threw it overhand toward the stage…

Authorities said Ernst wasn’t a credentialed conference attendee and wasn’t supposed to have been in the ballroom, which had more than 1,000 people.

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