I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!
And today, in your daily dose of political hypocrisy, allow me to introduce the epitome of hypocrisy itself.
These political leaders all votes to literally take food out of the mouths of their own constituents, while at the same time extending their hands for more personal handouts from the federal government.
Strident anti-LGBT activist Peter LaBarbera said on Wednesday that the U.S. should adopt its own Russian-style “gay propaganda” law that would outlaw any positive representation of non-heterosexual relationships.
According to Right Wing Watch, LaBarbera was incensed at the inclusion of a family headed by a lesbian couple in the Disney Channel comedy series “Good Luck Charlie.”
“Look at the Disney show, they are promoting lesbianism to kids who don’t even know what sex is yet,” LaBarbera complained in a radio interview with the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios. “How are kids going to process that information of two moms?”
LaBarbera — dubbed “Porno Pete” by some LGBT activists because of his purportedly massive trove of gay pornography, which the Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality director says he keeps for “research” — said that the U.S. needs to copy Russia’s laws against positive portrayals of same-sex relationships.
These laws, he said, will keep Americans from “promoting homosexualism” and therefore are “acceptable and a good idea.”
You know this was going to happen. Yesterday, CVS announced that it will no longer sell tobacco products. Now, CVS is a business, a Corporation. You’d think that its freedom to make whatever decision it sees fit for their brand would go over pretty smoothly with the corporate freedom lovers over at Fox News? But you’d be wrong again for harboring that thought.
On on Fox’s The Five, co-host Dana Perino tried to use the decision to attack President Obama’s signature health care law, saying, “I just wonder, is this President Obama now saying that corporations are allowed to have values and express them? Because if that’s the case, maybe corporations then don’t have to provide contraceptive care to their employees or their health plans. And the Supreme Court justices might want to think about that.”
Ah, for the record, Healthcare is the law. Providing cigarettes is not.
Clay Aiken, who gained fame on the talent show American Idol, is running for Congress and we have the video to prove it. Aiken will run on the Democratic platform in his native North Carolina, and hopes to dethrone the Teaparty queen, Renee Ellmers.
Ellmers, a Teaparty Congresswoman, has been a vocal opponent of the president and all of his policies, especially healthcare.
In the video announcing his candidacy, Aiken credits his mother, his upbringing and his work on the Presidential Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, the National Inclusion Project, as some of his reasons for running for office.
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What If a known liar tells you that the sky is falling, would you look up to verify?
What if he tells you that on the President Obama’s watch we have lost jobs. Would you believe him or would you check the recorded facts showing that under this president we have gained almost 10 million jobs so far?
And what if that same liar told you that he believes Chris Christie is telling the truth about Bridgegate? Would you believe him?
Those are some of the questions to ask yourself as you watch Mitt Romney in this recent interview on CNN.
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A 59-year-old-woman was executed by lethal injection Wednesday in Texas amid controversy over whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
Suzanne Basso is the 14th woman put to death since capital punishment resumed in 1976; nearly 1,400 men have been put to death. There are approximately 60 women currently on death row in the U.S
Basso was sentenced to death in 1998 for killing a mentally disabled man after prosecutors argued she lured the man to Texas from New Jersey with the promise of marriage. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop her scheduled execution.
The state of Texas used a single drug rather than a three-drug cocktail that was used up until 2012, when export bans by drug manufacturers created massive shortages of the drugs. A report by The Guardian found that executions using the new method take on average twice as long as they did with the old method.
A California highway patrol officer handcuffed and detained a firefighter who was treating car crash victims last night after he refused to stop the rescue to move his truck.
The men had both responded to a car crash where a sedan had flipped over a concrete divider on the I-805. When Jacob Gregoir, a firefighter for more than 12 years, arrived at the scene, he parked his firetruck behind the ambulance to provide protection for the emergency responders — something the Chula Vista fire chief said fire crews are trained to do.
But the cop, apparently trying to clear the highway’s fast lane, asked firefighters to move their trucks.
The CHP officer, whose name has not been released, told firefighter/engineer Jacob Gregoire to move the engine out of the traffic lane or he would be arrested, Hanneman said. He said Gregoire, who was checking the overturned car for any additional victims, answered that he’d have to check with his captain.
Instead, directly in front of CBS news cameras, the cop decided to handcuff Gregoire and detained him in the back of a squad car for approximately half an hour.
“To detain one of our firefighters in the middle of an incident is ridiculous,” Chula Vista Fire Chief Dave Hanneman told CBS.
Supervisors from both agencies had to be called to intervene and Gregoire was eventually released without charges — probably a wise move on the highway patrol’s part.
In 2008, a police officer was fined $18,000 after he arrested a firefighter who also refused to move his firetruck during a highway rescue.
Speaker John A. Boehner should lose his gavel if he pursues immigration this year, a prominent tea party Republican said in an interview with CQ Roll Call on Tuesday.
“I think it should cost him his speakership,” Rep. Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho warned, if Boehner puts an immigration overhaul on the floor.
But even if Boehner shelves immigration, Labrador said, the party needs new leadership — and the two-term lawmaker is not ruling out a run for leadership himself.
“There is a hunger in the conference for bold, visionary leaders, and this is not just conservatives — you talk to more middle-of-the-road members of the conference, they’re kind of frustrated with the direction of this leadership, and they’re looking for ways to change that,” he said.
Labrador, who was part of a failed coup attempt in 2013, has made a name for himself inside and outside the Republican Conference by pushing Boehner and other Republican leaders to embrace a new brand of conservatism.
“I think you’re going to see some changes here in the House over the next year,” he said. “I think that this is an opportunity for whoever wants to run for leadership to show that they have a clear vision for America.”
Labrador said the new GOP leadership in the 114th Congress could include members currently in leadership, particularly Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, with whom Labrador has a strong working relationship.
Recently, there was a report detailing how the abortion rate under President Obama is at its lowest level in three decades. By itself, that is very impressive. But when you look at the rate of decline under both Democratic and Republican presidents, you have no choice but to come to the following conclusion – Republicans just talk the talk. It takes a Democrat to actually deliver.
This chart shows the rate of decline in abortions since the Reagan administration. Republicans would come with their dumb talking points about Mr. Obama, and if you listen or believe them, they would even tell you that the President’s wish is for the entire country to head to the clinic tomorrow and abort… something. But when you’re dealing with facts, there’s no argument.
Notice the rate of decline under both Reagan and Bush Sr. There was hardly any decline at -0.01%. Then there was a huge drop under Clinton at -16%. Bush W saw a moderate -8% in his eight years, and in the five years of the Obama administration, there is already a -14% decline. Combined, for the 18 years Republicans had the White House, there was a measly 8.01% reduction in Abortions. For the Democrats on the other hand, there is already a 30% decline, in only 13 years!
Since it was revealed that George Zimmerman was looking for someone to fight in what they labeled “a celebrity boxing match”, and since it was revealed that his fight will be verses DMX, people on twitter have engaged in a discussion asking, what exactly makes George Zimmerman a celebrity?
Apparently, people on Twitter can’t figure out the answer to that question, and they’re voicing their opinion.
Not cool that George Zimmerman is now a celebrity for Murdering someone’s child….sad
— Brandon King (@BrandonKing4787) February 5, 2014
@librab103 The racist systems governing America made George Zimmerman a celebrity by setting him free, letting him profit from murder…
— Bhaswati Chattopadhy (@BhaswatiChat) February 5, 2014
I think Trayvon’s dad should get a round in the #GeorgeZimmerman celebrity boxing match.:… http://t.co/rvJiOLCi1W
— Karen Hunter (@karenhunter) January 31, 2014
I do not support ANY celebrity fighting George Zimmerman, to do so makes a mockery of the death of Trayvon & the legacy his family created.
— Jasmine Rand (@JasmineEsquire) February 3, 2014
It sickens me that George Zimmerman is being labeled a celebrity.
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) February 5, 2014
Since when did killing an unarmed teen make you a celebrity? George Zimmerman is a killer. Trayvon should be celebrating his 19th birthday.
— VK (@craftyme25) February 5, 2014
If George Zimmerman killed a white kid the only celebrity appearances he’d be doing is in a prison talent show
— Jesse LaGreca (@JesseLaGreca) February 5, 2014
Yep. It’s happened. We now live in a society where cold-blooded murderers become celebrated reality stars -… http://t.co/BjJ3GDGNtK
— Lee Camp (Satirista) (@LeeCamp) January 31, 2014
“If George Zimmerman is fit 2 fight in a celebrity boxingg match, then why couldn’t he fight off a teenage boy without reaching 4 his gun”
— GreatScottMckenzie (@GreatScottNYC) February 5, 2014
Though Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman became a household name for his aggressive smack-talk in a post-game interview with Erin Andrews, the NFL star, fresh off a Super Bowl win, shut down a Twitter troll with no more than a smile on Tuesday.
After Sherman tweeted some kind words to Super Bowl competitor and Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, one angry Twitter user harassed Sherman online, calling him a “disingenuous punk” and “nasty scumbag.”
“Everyone who heard you dissing Manning before knows you don’t mean a damn word of this, you pathetic, disingenuous punk,” said user @SnBEternally in one tweet, following it up with two more tweets:
Take your phony praise and shove it up your drugged out ass, you worthless scumbag.
Seattle beat Denver, but you contributed nothing and got carted off with an injury. Karma’s a NASTY bitch, needle Dick! 😛
Sherman, who had been thanking his fans on Twitter, took a moment to respond to the troll, too:
There are supposed to be safety rules and regulations in place when doing certain jobs. And there are. But not all workers abide by those rules.
Here are some pictures showing the way some workers put their lives in danger to complete a day’s work.
OSHA will not be happy.
