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I think she fell and hit her head, because Landrieu obviously thinks that by adopting Republican ideas, Republican voters are going to vote for her over the Republican in the race.
Allow me to go out on a limb here and if the limb breaks, then so be it. It’s not a very high limb so I’ll most likely survive. But I’ll predict that come December 6th after all the votes are counted, Landrieu would be referred to as the former Senator from Louisiana.
I’m just saying.
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Thangs can always get worse, and anytime the KKK is involved, things usually will get worse.
In preparation for the upcoming decision on whether to charge Darren Wilson for the murder of 17 year old Mike Brown in Ferguson Missouri, the local KKK has put out this flyer to the residents of Ferguson, letting them know that they will be killed if Wilson is freed and the ensuing protests get out of control.
“We will use lethal force as provided under Missouri law to defend ourselves,” the flyer reads.
Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the local chapter spoke with The Riverfront Times, saying that the protesters are driving more people to join the KKK.
“These Ferguson protesters are the best recruiters since Obama. Normally we might hear from ten people a week in Missouri, and now we’re hearing from more like fifty people a week. Sometimes, depending on these news stories, we get 100, 200 calls in a day.”
The decision on Wilson is expected anytime this month. Recent reports suggest that he will not be charged with any wrongdoing in Mike Brown’s death.
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See, this is yet another reason why Democrats are often considered weak and spineless. They have fought to keep the Keystone pipeline from developing for years but behold, after losing an election and losing control of the Congress, Democrats are pushing a vote on the pipeline and, by the look of things, they will approve the very legislation they have blocked all this time.
O. M. G!
The Democratic culprit behind this new pipeline push is Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Failing to meet the required amount of votes in the midterm elections, Landrieu is forced into a runoff election on December 6th against her Republican challenger, Rep. Bill Cassidy. So the wisdom of Landrieu and Senate Democrats is – win the runoff election by all means, even if it includes selling out the American people.
The problem with constructing the Keystone XL Pipeline – which will run 1700 miles from Canada to Texas and will carry heavy, low grade crude from Canada’s oil sands to refineries in Texas – is strictly environmental. The pipeline will run over the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world’s largest supplier of fresh water that stretches beneath much of Nebraska and runs from South Dakota to parts of Lubbock in Texas.
The Aquifer is responsible for providing fresh water to farmlands in 8 states, and also provides drinking water to many municipal wells. It is a big deal and extremely important to keep this source of fresh water… fresh. But constructing an oil pipeline above this massive aquifer seems to defy all logic, and that was the argument of Democrats made for years… until now.
“I believe that we should take the new majority leader at his word and stop blocking legislation that is broadly supported by the American public and has been for quite some time,” Landrieu said on the Senate floor. “I want to say, yes to majority leader — new majority leader Mitch McConnell. The time to start is now.”
And while talking to reporters, Landrieu painted herself not as a Democrat, but as an independent. “I’ve stood against my leadership,” she said, “And I’ve stood up to the Republicans.” It seems that Mary Landrieu has not learned the lesson of the 2014 midterm election – when you run away from your base and their ideals, your base will run away from you!
Needless to say, the American people and the base of the Democratic party want to preserve the Aquifer, but in a futile effort try and keep her job in the Senate, Landrieu is sell out the country!
It should also be noted that her Republican challenger is one of the authors of the bill to build the Keystone pipeline. So if Keystone is the deciding factor in who wins in Louisania, Landrieu is making a sad mistake to think the voters in her state will vote for her if she she show support for the pipeline, over the guy who authored the bill to build the pipeline. That is what I call a pipe-dream on Landrieu’s part.
It’s time for Mary Landrieu and these spineless Democrats to wake the hell up!
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The Dallas hospital that sent Eric Duncan home when he tried getting help from his Ebola symptoms, has reached a settlement with Duncan’s family, according to the family’s lawyer.
According to their attorneys, a resolution has been “reached on behalf of the children and parents of the deceased with Texas Health Resources and all related entities.” The resolution includes a financial settlement and a charitable contribution. No further monetary details were disclosed.
Duncan returned from his native Liberia to Texas on September 20 and came to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 5 days later complaining of stomach pains, dizziness, nausea and headaches. He had a temperature of 103 degrees.
During Duncan’s five hour stay, he informed health workers that he had recently been to Liberia, but the attending physician was not told. Duncan was released from the hospital later that day only to return September 30 in an ambulance — officially the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with Ebola.
The hospital would later receive a lot of criticism on their initial decision to send him home. Although two nurses at the hospital were later infected, Duncan was the only one to die of the disease.
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In typical Colbert fashion, Stephen told his audience that he is “still riding high from the GOP’s triumph in last week’s midterm election.”
For those not familiar with Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert is synonymous with sarcasm.
Why is Colbert so happy you might ask? Because with Republicans winning control of two-thirds of the Federal Government, they can finally work harder at making government smaller.
Colbert explains. “This means there will be more Republicans than ever making government smaller by working full-time in Washington. In fact, there is only one way to describe this victory.”
That word is “mandate.”
“Yes, it was absolutely a mandate,” said Colbert, “thanks to an historic turnout of just 37 percent of eligible voters, the lowest since 1942.”
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Republicans picked up their 8th Senate victory earlier Wednesday morning, as it was announced that Dan Sullivan, a Republican from Alaska, defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Begich in the midterm elections.
Sullivan served as the Attorney General of Alaska under former Gov. Sarah Palin (R). Begich previously served as the mayor of Anchorage before being elected to the Senate in 2008.
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And you thought the president went on a meaningless trip to China. The man is always working, even when the do-nothing Congress does nothing!
In a surprise announcement Tuesday night, the world’s two biggest economies and greenhouse gas emitters, United States and China, said they will partner closely on a broad-ranging package of plans to fight climate change, including new targets to reduce carbon pollution, according to a statement from the White House.
The announcement comes after President Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping today in Beijing, and includes headline-grabbing commitments from both countries that are sure to breathe new life into negotiations to reach a new climate treaty in Paris next year.
According to the plan, the United States will reduce carbon emissions 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, nearly twice the existing target—without imposing new restrictions on power plants or vehicles.
Tuesday’s announcement is equally remarkable for China’s commitment. For the first time, China has set a date at which it expects its emissions will “peak,” or finally begin to taper downward: around 2030. China is currently the world’s biggest emitter of carbon pollution, largely because of its coal-dependent economy, and reining in emissions while continuing to grow has been the paramount challenge for China’s leaders.
The White House said in a statement that China could reach the target even sooner than 2030. It “expects that China will succeed in peaking its emissions before 2030 based on its broad economic reform program, plans to address air pollution, and implementation of President Xi’s call for an energy revolution.”
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Henry Jackson, better known as Big Bank Hank of the Sugarhill Gang, died early Tuesday morning at Englewood Hospital in New Jersey from complications due to cancer. The news — first reported by TMZ — was confirmed to HuffPost Entertainment by David Mallie, business manager for Sugarhill Gang members Michael “Wonder Mike” Wright and Guy “Master Gee” O’Brien. Jackson was 57 years old.
In a statement to HuffPost Entertainment via Mallie, Wright and O’Brien expressed sorrow and condolences: “So sad to hear of our brother’s passing. The three of us created musical history together with the release of ‘Rapper’s Delight.’ We will always remember traveling the world together and rocking the house. Rest in peace Big Bank.”
The Sugarhill gang formed in the late ’70s and was best-known for the 1979 hit single, “Rapper’s Delight.”
DJ Funkmaster Flex was among the many people to pay tribute to Jackson:
h/t – Huffingtonpost
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With his release from Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, the United States is currently Ebola free! Dr. Craig Spencer spent 19 days at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, and he is now cured from the disease.
Republicans who used the disease as a fear mechanism to win control of Congress must now look for another way to keep their base afraid!
In a press conference this morning, New York’s mayor Bill DeBlasio thanked the doctor for his tremendous sacrifice and his willingness to put his life in danger to treat the disease at its source. Mr. DeBlasio said that we thank our military when they put their uniform on to protect us, so we should do the same when doctors put on a different uniform to fight diseases at the source, ultimately helping the US.
I said throughout this crisis we honor our men and women in uniform when they go overseas to protect us, Doctor Spencer was wearing a different uniform with the same exact mission – to help people everywhere and to protect people here.
The mayor also asked that the truth be told about Ebola, a clear hit at Republicans and the entire crew at Fox News.
Let’s just spread truth and honest information about Ebola. Let’s get rid of the misinformation. Let’s spread the truth that this is a very hard disease to contact [SIC].
For his part, the 33 year old doctor spoke about the importance of following the protocol for controlling Ebola, and he credits that protocol for his survival. Doctor Spencer also spoke about his 5 weeks working in West Africa.
“During this time, I cried as I held children who were not strong enough to survive the virus,” he said. “But I also experienced immense joy when patients I treated were cured, and invited me into their family as a brother upon discharge.”
He went on to say that when he was diagnosed with Ebola, “many of these same patients called my personal cell phone from Guinea to wish me well and ask if there was anyway that they could contribute to my care.”
The doctor then urged all to remember the doctors and nurses in Guinea, who watch their friends and families die from Ebola as they do all they can to treat other Ebola victims in their communities. “They are the true heroes that we are not talking about,” the Doctor said.
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Just days after his party was routed in the midterm elections, President Obama said that he and his White House team had not succeeded in effectively selling the benefits of his policies to the American people, calling it a “failure of politics” that he must change in the final two years of his presidency.
“It’s not enough just to build a better mousetrap,” Mr. Obama said in an interview that was taped Friday at the White House and broadcast Sunday on the 60th anniversary of CBS’s “Face the Nation” program. “People don’t automatically come beating to your door. We’ve got to sell it. We’ve got to reach out to the other side and, where possible, persuade.”
Mr. Obama acknowledged bluntly that “we got beat” in the elections on Tuesday and said that the Democratic losses prompted him to have a “gut check” about what he needed to do differently. But as he has in the past, the president defended the merits of his administration’s policies, blaming the election results on a poor communications effort in the White House.
“There are times, there’s no doubt about it, where, you know I think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction,” Mr. Obama said.
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NBC News is reporting that internationally known minister and motivational speaker Myles Munroe, his wife and several other people, were killed when their crashed in the Bahamas on Sunday. Munroe’s ministry confirmed the news Sunday night and the Bahamian aviation ministry also confirmed that there were “some fatalities” among the nine people on board.
Dave Burrows, head of youth ministries for Munroe’s non-denominational Bahamas Faith Ministries International, said at a hastily convened news conference Sunday night that Munroe’s wife, Ruth — also a widely known figure in international evangelical circles — and the ministry’s senior vice president and pastor, Richard Pinder, were among those killed in the crash.
The Department of Civil Aviation said the Learjet 36 crashed at 5:10 p.m. ET while making a landing approach at Grand Bahama International Airport. Burrows said a small number of other people were on board the plane, along with two pilots, none of whom were immediately identified.
Munroe, 60, was an internationally known Christian preacher and motivational speaker. He frequently appeared before mass audiences at Christian events with other widely known preachers, like Bishop T.D. Jakes and Bishop Eddie Long, and he was associated during the early 2000s with the Promise Keepers movement, a Christian ministry focused on strengthening the role of men in Christian life. He wrote or co-wrote more than 100 inspirational and motivational books, many of which were best-sellers in the Caribbean and Africa.
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