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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Chris Wallace Politics Wayne LaPierre

Fox News Calls Out Wayne LaPierre – “That’s ridiculous and you know it, sir.”

Fox News was suppose to be a safe zone for Wayne Lapierre. The network has taken the very same positions as LaPierre and the NRA. But LaPierre’s visit to Fox today was not a sunday walk in the park, as the NRA’s mouthpiece was called out on numerous occasions as an “out of touch elite” making “ridiculous” statements.

Here’s a clip of LaPierre’s most recent visit. Host Chris Wallace asked LaPierre if he stands by the claims made in a recent ad by the NRA targeting the President’s children. In the ad, the narrator asked, “are the president’s kids more important than yours? Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school.”

Asked if he agrees with that ad, LaPierre tried to wiggle himself out of the hot seat, saying that the ad was  not about the President’s daughters. Wallace stated that the ad specifically spoke about the president’s daughters. He then asked LaPierre;

“Do you really think that the president’s children are the same kind of target as every school child in America? That’s ridiculous and you know it, sir.”

Later on in the discussion, Chris Wallace pointed out the hypocrisy of Wayne LaPierre for criticizing “the elite” for having personal security although he has them too. This fact left LaPierre physically twitching in his seat as he looked for an answer to Wallace’s accusation.

Watch the video below.

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death News shooting

Man Charged With Killing Ex SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle

A 25-year-old man was charged with murder in connection with a shooting at a central Texas gun range that killed former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and his friend, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Sunday.

Chris Kyle

Sgt. Lonny Haschel said in a news release that 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh of Lancaster was arraigned Saturday evening on two counts of capital murder.

Haschel said Erath County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about a shooting at the Rough Creek Lodge, west of Glen Rose, at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Police found the bodies of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at the shooting range. Glen Rose is about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Police said Routh opened fire on Kyle and Littlefield around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, then fled in a Ford pickup truck. At about 8 p.m., Routh arrived at his home in Lancaster, about 17 miles southeast of Dallas. Police arrested him after a brief pursuit and took him to the Lancaster Police Department.

Officer Kyle Roberts at the Erath County Jail said Routh arrived there Sunday morning and is being held on a combined $3 million bond — bond for one charge of capital murder was set at $1 million and bond for two charges of murder was $1 million each. Roberts did not have information on whether Routh had a lawyer.

The motive for the shooting was unclear.

Kyle, a decorated soldier, wrote the best-selling book, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009. According to promotional information from book publisher William Morrow, Kyle served was deployed to Iraq four times.

Kyle helped start the nonprofit FITCO Cares, which provides at-home fitness equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans. Travis Cox, the organization’s director and friend of Kyle’s, spoke with the AP on Sunday morning.

h/t AP

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News

Sylvester Stallone – “Who Needs An Assault Weapon? Like Really…!”

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Sylvester Stallone says that despite his “Rambo” image and new shoot-em-up film “Bullet to the Head,” he’s in favor of new national gun control legislation.

Stallone supported the 1994 “Brady bill” that included a now-expired ban on assault weapons, and hopes that ban can be reinstated.

“I know people get (upset) and go, `They’re going to take away the assault weapon.’ Who … needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you’re carrying out an assault. … You can’t hunt with it. … Who’s going to attack your house, a (expletive) army?”

The 66-year-old actor, writer and director said he also hopes for an additional focus on mental health to prevent future mass shootings.

“It’s unbelievably horrible, what’s happened. I think the biggest problem, seriously, is not so much guns. It’s that every one of these people that have done these things in the past 30 years are friggin’ crazy. Really crazy! And that’s where we’ve dropped the ball: mental health,” he said. “That to me is our biggest problem in the future, is insanity coupled with isolation.”

h/t Xfinity

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Entertainment

9 Things To Do Today… or Tomorrow

I just had to share: 

1. Make Vanilla pudding. Put in Mayonnaise jar. Eat in public.

2. Hire two private investigators. Get them to follow each other.

3. Wear shirt that says “Life.” Hand out lemons on street corner.

4. Get into a crowded elevator and say, “I guess you’re all wondering why I gathered you here today.

5. Major in philosophy. Ask people why they would like fries with that.

6. Run into a store, ask what year it is. When someone answers, yell “it worked!” Run out cheering.

7. Change name to Simon. Speak in third person.

8. Buy a parrot. Teach the parrot to say, “Help! I’ve been turned into a parrot.”

9. Follow joggers around in your car blasting, “Eye of the Tiger” for encouragement.

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Tid Bits

Malala Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl who rose to international fame after the Taliban nearly killed her for her efforts to promote girls’ education, has been formally nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

Her name was put forward by three members of the Norwegian parliament from the ruling Labor Party on their website Friday, which was the deadline for nominations.

Malala’s name was put forward because of “her courageous commitment to the right of girls to education. A commitment that seemed so threatening to the extremists that they chose to try and kill her,” said parliamentarian Freddy de Ruiter on the Labor party web site.

De Ruiter made the nomination with fellow members of parliament Gorm Kjernli and Magne Rommetveit.

h/t NBC

Thanks @TonyBlackwell

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Politics

Official Photo Of President Obama Skeet Shooting

So it’s true.

The White House is responding to critics who questioned whether President Obama has ever been skeet shooting.

White House Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer tweeted out this picture on Saturday morning after much skepticism about the president’s claim that he participates in the sport “all the time.”

“POTUS shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David on Aug. 4, 2012,” reads the tweet, with a link to the photograph.

The photo would appear to quiet the controversy that arose after an interview with The New Republic, in which Obama talked about frequent skeet shooting.

The publication asked: “Have you ever fired a gun?”

Obama responded: “Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.”

The comment caused a stir, as people asked why he had never mentioned the hobby before and why they had never seen photos.

In an interview with CNN on Monday night — before the photo was released — Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said, “If he is a skeet shooter, why have we not heard of this? Why have we not seen photos?”

She then added: “I think he should invite me to Camp David, and I’ll go skeet shooting with him. And I bet I’ll beat him.”

h/t USA Today

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Politics weekly address

President’s Weekly Address: Working Together To Grow The Economy

President Obama called on Congress to work together and come up with bipartisan ways to pay down the debt and grow the economy.

We began this year with economists and business leaders saying that we are poised to grow in 2013.  And there are real signs of progress:  Home prices are starting to climb again.  Car sales are at a five-year high.  Manufacturing is roaring back.  Our businesses created 2.2 million jobs last year.  And we just learned that our economy created more jobs over the last few months than economists originally thought.

But this week, we also received the first estimate of America’s economic growth over the last few months.  And it reminded us that bad decisions in Washington can get in the way of our economic progress.

We all agree that it’s critical to cut unnecessary spending.  But we can’t just cut our way to prosperity.  It hasn’t worked in the past, and it won’t work today.  It could slow down our recovery.  It could weaken our economy.  And it could cost us jobs – now, and in the future.

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Fox News Senate

Geraldo Rivera – “I Endorse Romney/Ryan, But I’m Voting Obama/Biden”

Geraldo Rivera from the Fox News Network signaled that he may run for the Senate representing New Jersey, saying that he’s been in touch with “some people in the Republican party” about running in 2014. But it seems that Geraldo is suffering from short-term memory.

In the 2012 presidential election, Geraldo went against everything Fox News and the Republicans stand for when he openly admitted he was voting for President Obama. In the tweet sent on November 5th right before the election, Geraldo said that he endorses Romney/Ryan, but will vote for Obama/Biden because of their stance on immigration and gay marriage.

Yes, that may have been his best vote yet, but if you really think New Jersey Republicans will forgive him for voting for their enemy and send Geraldo to the Senate, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’ll like to sell ya!

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Technology

Your iPhone Overheating? You’re Not Alone

A woman says the battery in her iPhone suddenly overheated this week, oozing a dark liquid and destroying the phone. Apple, however, is refusing to replace the phone, according to its owner, Shibani Bhujle, a marketing manager in New York.

It’s not the first report of iPhone batteries overheating, though the incidents appear to be rare and have also affected other cellphones. In 2011, an iPhone 4 turned red hot and began emitting dense smoke in the cabin of a commercial flight in Australia; no one was injured. Last year, Samsung said it would investigate a reportof its Galaxy S III bursting into flames in Ireland. And also last year, a Motorola Droid Bionic was said to have caught fire in its owner’s pants.

In Bhujle’s case, her iPhone 4S was sitting on her coffee table on Monday, Jan. 28, when the phone’s display unexpectedly turned on and then off. “Within a minute, there was a very strong smell—it smelled like something was burning,” she told Quartz in an interview today. “I picked up my phone and it was very, very hot. It wouldn’t turn on. In the following minute. I couldn’t hold it because it was too hot to touch. I was panicking. I expected it to explode or something.”

h/t QZ.com

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sex Tid Bits

Woman Used A Sex Act In An Attempt To Kill Her Husband

Well, this could officially be the craziest sex story we’ve ever heard: A Brazilian woman apparently attempted to murder her husband by putting poison in her vagina and asking him to go down on her. Yes, you read that correctly.

The guy didn’t get very far before he noticed that something just didn’t smell right down there and, realizing that his wife might be in danger—since she’d put poison all up in her ladyparts, rushed her to the hospital and saved her life. (If that’s not love, then we don’t know what love is.)

There’s no word as of now regarding why the woman wanted to kill her husband—and went to these measures, at that—but news reports say that the guy does intend to press charges against her.

There’s only one thing to say about all this: WTF?

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Employment Politics

U.S Economy Added 157,000 Jobs In January

American employers added 157,000 jobs in January compared with a revised 196,000 jobs the previous month, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The unemployment rate was little changed at 7.9 percent, about where it has been stuck since September.

On the bright side, revised government data showed that the economy added 335,000 more jobs than originally estimated during all of 2012, including an additional 150,000 in the last quarter of the year. That was on top of the previously reported fourth-quarter job growth of 603,000 and 2012 growth of 2.2 million.

The higher revisions, in particular, encouraged traders on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrial average over the 14,000-point mark for the first time since 2007.

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Applebees Responds To Public Outrage About Fired Employee

Yesterday we learned about an Applebee’s employee who was fired for posting a receipt from a customer on the internet. The receipt detailed a note from a pastor who refused to leave a tip. The note said, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?”

After the pastor’s information was revealed, the pastor called Applebee and demanded that the employee and the managers be fired. Applebee responded by firing the employee responsible for posting the note online.

Now, Applebee is speaking up, informing the public that the person they fired was not the one who waited on the pastor. Here’s what they said on their Facebook page.

As a company that relies on literally hundreds of thousands of incredibly hard working Team Members, we can assure you that we and our franchisees value and support them and their efforts. However this unfortunate situation has nothing to do with work.

The Team Member involved did not wait on the guest or party. Regrettably, and without the restaurant’s knowledge, she took it upon herself to take a Guest’s receipt, with the name clearly visible, and posted it online with her own commentary. That is a clear violation of our Guest’s privacy and against the franchisee’s company policy that the Team Member was provided when hired. We simply cannot accept behavior that compromises the safety and privacy our Guests have every right to expect and deserve. Please note that we are also not excusing the Guest’s behavior in this matter and the unacceptable comment she wrote on the receipt, which is offensive to us and all our hard working team members. To be clear, the 18% gratuity added to large party tickets was paid by the Guest’s party.

This is a regrettable situation, and we wish it had never happened. we hope this provides you with some additional insight. Thanks again for the chance to explain.

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