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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Another Republican Assemblyman Charged with Sexual Assault

More Republican family values.

Prosecutors charged former Wisconsin Assembly Majority Leader Bill Kramer on Friday with sexually assaulting a political aide three years ago following a Republican mixer.

Kramer is charged with two counts of second-degree felony sexual assault. He faces up to $200,000 in fines and 80 years in prison if convicted on both charges. He is due to make an initial court appearance on April 14.According to the criminal complaint, the woman told police earlier this month that Kramer shoved her against her car outside the mixer, tried to kiss her and groped her breasts. He also assaulted her in her car, telling her he wanted to have sex with her, kissing her and groping her, the woman said.

The complaint said Kramer gave different answers about the incident in a telephone interview with a detective this month.

He asked the detective if the woman was the same one who applied for a job in his office, said he had been friends with her and that she had made a pass at him in 2008. He acknowledged kissing her good night but denied groping her, telling the detective the woman “has very nice doctor-enhanced breasts. I am not a big fan of those. I like the real ones.”

Asked if the woman ever told him to stop, he replied, “I am sure she said something about it not going any further. That is why I went home. I am sure that happened, but I don’t remember it. I have been turned down a lot.”

Kramer’s attorney, James Gatzke, said the case will have to run its course.

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Dallas Hoarder Crushed to Death by His own Possessions

A Dallas County medical examiner crawled through a window and over piles of debris Thursday to reach a man found dead inside his home, on the 6200 block of Martel Avenue. Dallas police said he appeared to be pinned under the weight of his own possessions.

“It just looks like something from a really bad TV show,” said neighbor Sarah Blanchette.

Friends of the homeowner noticed him missing Tuesday of last week, and eventually reported their concerns to police, who called in firefighters. For days, neighbors watched their efforts to find the man.

“They’ve been pulling out jugs and jugs of urine and feces and just the things that he collected is amazing,” said Jessica Zacek, who has lived across the street for eleven years. “Everyone knew there was a hoarding situation.  No one knew the extent,” she said.

Firefighters first tried to push their way in Saturday, but a ten foot wall of trash blocked them. Thus, they cut a hole through the roof, instead, climbing down through the attic. Even a cadaver dog couldn’t track the man down, though.

Firefighters say it was thrown off by the scent of dead animals.

“We just could not get around or find anything,” said Dallas Fire Rescue Lt. Joel Lavender. Calling the debris a health and safety issue, Dallas police got a warrant to clear the home.

Neighbors said they were warned it would eventually have to come down, releasing rodents living inside.

“They’re advising everyone to get rat bait traps, just to make sure they don’t invade everyone else’s homes and to make sure your pets are vaccinated,” said Zacek.

A hazard materials cleaning crew contracted by the city began work Wednesday.

Around noon Thursday, they finally discovered the 67-year-old homeowner.

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Healthcare Politics

Self Described “Staunch Republican” Confessed – “Obamacare Works”

Mark D. Bearden wrote this letter on the White House website.

I am a staunch Republican, a self-proclaimed Fox News addict, and I didn’t vote for the President. And I’m here to tell you that Obamacare works. I’m living proof.

I’m a chemotherapy patient, and was previously paying $428 a month for my health coverage. I was not thrilled when it was cancelled.

Then I submitted an application at HealthCare.gov. I looked at my options. And I signed up for a plan for $62 a month.

It’s the best health care I have ever had.

So right now, here’s what I want to tell anyone who still needs health insurance, or knows someone who does:

Sign up. Follow the instructions on the website. Apply, and look at your options. You still have time, and take it from me: This is something you want to do.

I wrote a letter to President Obama this past February to tell him about my experience with the Health Insurance Marketplace. I hoped he’d read it, and he did.

I may not be a supporter of the President. But now, I get mad when I see Obamacare dragged through the mud on television.

And even though I regularly tune in to conservative pundits, I’d like to tell them they’re getting it wrong. Obamacare works.

So one more time: If you still need health insurance, you have just three days to get it. Do what I did. Go to HealthCare.gov, submit an application, and pick a plan that works for you.

It just might change your life.

Mark D. Bearden, Ph.D.
Monroe, North Carolina

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Entertainment

Watch a Forty Year Old Woman Hear for The First Time – Video

Jo Milne has been deaf since birth due to Usher syndrome, a rare and incurable genetic disorder that can cause hearing loss and visual impairment. Now, at age 40, her new cochlear implants are allowing her to hear for the first time.

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Boy Hides in Girlfriend’s Closet Almost Gets Shot by Girl’s Dad

This one got away, unlike the teen that was shot to death after he was found hiding in his girlfriend’s room.

A Florida man pulled a gun on a teen boy after finding him hiding inside his stepdaughter’s closet before making her do squats as punishment, police said.

Timothy Estes, 39, allegedly freaked out Tuesday after finding the 16-year-old boy inside the 14-year-old girl’s bedroom at his DeLand house.

Cops say he pointed a pistol at the boy’s head and marched him out the door.

“You’re lucky I don’t kill you, next time I see you I am going to kill you,” he reportedly screamed at the terrified teen.

Returning to the house, Estes then allegedly decided to seriously discipline his stepdaughter.

Slapping the girl across the face, he is then accused of handing her a pencil and forcing her to do squats without dropping it.

He then allegedly made her do push-ups, threatening to beat her if they weren’t perfect, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

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Louie Gohmert Politics

Louie Gohmert is “Shocked” That Corporations Can’t Have Religious Beliefs

Rep.Louie Gohmert, the Texas Republican Representative said that he was ‘shocked’ to learn that Corporations can’t have religious beliefs and be allowed to deny women the right to contraceptives.

“This is a Justice Department that has indicted corporations for forming intent to commit a crime,” the former Texas judge said. “Well, Tony, if you can as a corporation through your directors and officers, form the intent to commit a crime, then you can certainly, through your officers and directors form an intent to have religious beliefs.”

“And if every one of your directors and officers has the same exact religious beliefs, whether your Amish and have formed a corporation or any other religious group — Quakers or whatever the group is — certainly a corporation can, if they can have intent as the Justice Department repeatedly proves in court, then they can certainly have religious beliefs.”

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Mom On Trial for Murdering Her 4 Year Old Because She Thought He Was Gay

An Oregon mother of four is on trial in Portland for the murder of her four-year old boy. Prosecutors says that Jessica Dutro complained on Facebook to her boyfriend that her son, Zachary, was gay, and beat him on several occasions because of it.

In the Facebook message to her boyfriend Brian Canady, which was read in court today, Jessica Dutro said that her son Zachary was “facing the wall” because he had made her mad, OregonLive reports:

Her son was going to be gay, she wrote, using a slur. “He walks and talks like it. Ugh.”

Canady would have to “work on” Zachary, she wrote.

On August 12, 2012, Canady allegedly violently kicked four-year old Zachary in the stomach. He reportedly refused to take the child to the hospital. When the boy finally was taken to the emergency room — two days later — it was too late. He was taken off life support August 16, 2012. The cause of death was blunt force trauma “to his abdomen that caused tears in his bowel,” OregonLive reported.

Zachary “was covered in bumps and bruises,” OregonLove notes in a separate report, “but he died from two holes in his intestines caused by blunt-force trauma. Urine and feces seeped from the holes and harmed his vital organs.”

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Tid Bits

Bank Is Demanding Teenager Return Money Wrongfully Deposited in His Account

What would you do if you check your bank account one day and realized that you had an extra $31,000 in your account?

Would you return the money to the bank? Or would you go on a spending spree before anybody realized what happened?

Well that very same scenario happened to a teenager in Georgia. After finding the loot in his bank account, the 18 year old went on a shopping spree spending $25,000 in 10 days, only to get caught when he returned to the bank to withdraw more money.

The bank teller realized that they had deposited the money into the teenagers account after the real owner – who happened to share the same name as a teenager – called to inquire about the missing funds. The teem returned for more cash and was told that he needed to return what he had already spent.

But he already had a story – the teen explained that the extra money in his account was actually an inheritance from his grandmother and he insisted that he will not be returning the funds.

He left the bank.

The cops paid the teen a visit at his home and explained that he will be taken to jail if the $25,000 was not returned, but the teen already had a solution; he would return to the bank and try to work things out with them.

He never showed up and the money is still not repaid.

The bank will press charges.

The police was called and made the trip

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ObamaCare Politics

Obamacare Enrollment Surpasses The 6 Million Mark

WASHINGTON — More than 6 million people have enrolled in the federal and state health exchanges as of Thursday, President Obama announced this afternoon.

This means the administration has met its latest goal, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office, to ensure the insurance system is sustainable.
Obama made the announcement on a conference call with health care navigators and volunteers while he was traveling in Italy. He thanked them for their help.

The latest milestone comes after the troubled opening of the federal exchange Oct. 1. Software problems and other issues rendered the site virtually unusable for weeks, and it took a surge of technology support to have it fixed by Nov. 30. Since then, however, enrollments have risen dramatically, particularly as the Dec. 31 and March 31 deadlines approached.

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Celebrities Sports trayvon martin

Kobe Bryant’s Insensitive Remarks on Trayvon Martin Tribute Sparks Online Outrage

Kobe Bryant

Sometimes, some people just don’t get it, and in this case, Kobe is one of those people.

Kobe Bryant was recently asked by The New Yorker magazine to weigh in on a widely publicized Miami Heat photo where the team posed in hoodies to show their support for the late Trayvon Martin and his family.

Bryant’s comments have been interpreted by some as an insult to the reigning NBA champions.

“I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American. That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”

Bryant was quickly pounced on by commentators on social media.

“Kobe could’ve just shouted out love for Trayvon’s parents, said he couldn’t imagine their loss and kept it breezy. He didn’t,” tweeted Grio columnist Goldie Taylor.

“My issue is that Kobe reduces the Trayvon Martin outrage to blind racial solidarity, when it was about so much more than that,” added ESPN commentator Jemele Hill.

Bryant has yet to respond to the backlash towards his remarks.

Miami Heats in hoodies as tribute to Trayvon Martin
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arrested Celebrities

Scandal’s Actor Arrested on Felony Charge

Columbus Short, a lead actor on the television series “Scandal,” was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge that he seriously injured a man during an altercation at a restaurant earlier this month.

Short was arrested by police in Claremont on a warrant issued in a case that alleges he committed a battery that caused serious bodily harm.

The actor was involved in a dispute with a man at a West Los Angeles restaurant March 15 before Short hit the man and knocked him out, according to Los Angeles police and prosecutors. Further details about the altercation were not released.

Short, 31, plays attorney Harrison Wright on ABC’s hit series “Scandal.” Records show he was released Wednesday after posting $50,000 bail.

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A Republican Nightmare – President and Pope TagTeam – PIC

So if President Obama teams up with Pope Francis, who are Republicans tag teaming with?

I shudder at the thought.

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