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Governor Quitter-From-Alaska Calls President Obama “Lazy”

Retreating once again to the safe confines of Fox News where reporters are few and opinions are many, governor Quitter-from-Alaska continued her comedy routine by calling the President “lazy.”

Palin began setting up her punch-line by saying that President Obama knew about the Veterans Affairs crisis some 6 years ago, but did nothing about it. For those of you who forgot your calculators at home today, 6 years ago will be right about the time the president was being sworn into office.

Here is how the lazy Palin, who quit half way through her first term as governor of Alaska, educated the Fox audience on how to spot a lazy person… as reported by Fox.

Palin also touched on the VA scandal, saying that President Barack Obama was told six years ago about issues within the VA. However, he has just been “engaging in rhetoric about problems of those under his charge.”

Hannity asked Palin why she thinks that Obama does not hold people accountable, citing Kathleen Sebelius and Eric Shinseki.

“When you hold someone accountable, it takes energy and resource, and Barack Obama is lazy. In fact, he warned us that he was lazy, and he attributed that to having been brought up in Hawaii. It’s his words, not mine. And, another thing is that Barack Obama still doesn’t see what the main problem is. This main problem is government. It’s not the solution like Ronald Reagan said, it’s the problem.

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Mark Cuban Admits to Prejudice and Bigotry

In light of the whole Donald sterling racist affair, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban explains that he too has some form of bigotry.

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Pope Francis Wants Us To Address Climate Change and Be “Custodians of Creation”

Once again Pope Francis is making conservatives and Republicans angry, with his calls for redistributing wealth, helping the poor, and helping the sick and needy. You know, the things Republicans hate to do.

And now this: Pope Francis wants us to take care of the World and environment, to be good stewards of the place we call home. What is wrong with this dude?

Republicans would be catch a fit when they hear about this!

Pope Francis made the religious case for tackling climate change on Wednesday, calling on his fellow Christians to become “Custodians of Creation” and issuing a dire warning about the potentially catastrophic effects of global climate change.

Speaking to a massive crowd in Rome, the first Argentinian pope delivered a short address in which he argued that respect for the “beauty of nature and the grandeur of the cosmos” is a Christian value, noting that failure to care for the planet risks apocalyptic consequences.

“Safeguard Creation,” he said. “Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!”

The pope centered his environmentalist theology around the biblical creation story in the book of Genesis, where God is said to have created the world, declared it “good,” and charged humanity with its care. Francis also made reference to his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, who was a famous lover of animals, and appeared to tie the ongoing environmental crisis to economic concerns — namely, instances where a wealthy minority exploits the planet at the expense of the poor.

Get ready for some more Pope Bashing, from your loving Republican Party.

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Conservatives Draft Memo Telling Republicans How to Connect with Americans

Sad, that conservatives have to draft a manifesto explaining what the Americans want to their Republican leaders on Congress.

Hoping to push their agenda ahead of the presidential election, a group of prominent conservatives has devised a 121-page policy manifesto aimed at giving the Republican Party a message that will attract some of the middle-class voters the party lost in recent White House races.

The document, to be unveiled Thursday, features eight essays with proposals on issues including health care, taxes and education. The authors hope the book will help Republicans address the economic anxieties of Americans and nudge the party from its most polarizing positions and constant confrontations with President Obama.

“We have to do more than ‘Stand athwart history, yelling stop,’ ” said Pete Wehner, a conservative scholar, referring to William F. Buckley Jr.’s vision for National Review, the conservative magazine he founded.

“Sometimes you have to do that and then try to bend history in a different direction,” said Mr. Wehner, one of the contributors to the manifesto.

Just goes to show you how out of touch and disconnected these people are, to the struggles of the average American.

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Again – Kidnapped, Raped, Held in Captivity for 10 Years

Isidro Garcia

No, this is not another story about Ariel Castro, this is a story about Isidro Garcia,  who also kidnapped his victim, raped and impregnated her, and held captive for 10 years.

Isidro Garcia was arrested Tuesday after his alleged victim reached out to her sister on Facebook and revealed how she been held hostage in a relationship with the 41-year-old man and had given birth to his child during the decade she vanished.

Santa Ana police say the girl’s mother reported her missing in August 2004. The mother told police her daughter went missing, along with her live-in boyfriend, Garcia, after a domestic violence incident.

Detectives say the mother suspected Garcia was sexually abusing her daughter.

A former neighbor in the sprawling Villa del Sol apartment complex recalled speaking with the missing girl’s mother shortly before the alleged kidnapping.

“I spoke to her mom about God,” Silvia Suarez, 54, told The Times in Spanish. “She said she was having problems with her partner. She believed he was romancing her daughter.”

The mother also suspected that her partner was having a sexual relationship with her daughter and that they were making plans to leave together.

Araceli Ochoa, a leasing agent for the well-kept complex over more than 500 units, remembered speaking to the girl’s mother after the girl went missing.

She said the mother came to her office and was deeply worried and stressed.

“She couldn’t understand how her daughter could leave,” Ochoa said in Spanish. She also expressed relief that she had been located by police. “I am very excited that they found her but it’s still a tragedy that she has to live with every day now,” Ochoa said. “Each day with him probably felt like 100 years to her.”

The victim, now 25, revealed to authorities Tuesday how she was abducted in June 2004, when she was living with her mother and sisters in Santa Ana.

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Arizona Republican Congressional Candidate Compares Police Officers to Nazis

Somehow, although his statement is reprehensible, I expected him to say something worse about the police than a comparison to Nazis. After all, he is a Republican and today’s Republicans pride themselves on saying and doing the most outlandish things.

Gary Kiehne, a hotel owner, complained in a Thursday interview with the Republic about police evacuation checkpoints set up during the devastating Wallow Fire in 2011.

Referring to Nazi SS agents and paramilitary officers, Kiehne said the police were willing to “shoot you and me,” according to the Republic.

Kiehne has apologized for his statement about mass shooters, but his campaign denied the Nazi comparisons he made.

Campaign spokesman Chris Baker said that Kiehne “expressing disappointment about the way the police had acted during the Wallow Fire.”

According to Baker, Kiehne “always wondered how German soldiers in (World War II) could turn on their own people with martial law, but after seeing martial law implemented during the Wallow Fire, he understood how it could happen.”

The Arizona Fraternal Order of Police has called on the candidate to drop out of the race, but Baker refused to comment on the group’s statement.

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Pension Tension

OK, who didn’t see this one coming?

Governor Chris Christie says he’s not going to make the full public employee’s pension payment he promised after the Democratic turncoats in the state legislature sided with him over working people in the spring of 2011. In raw numbers, that’s a $2.4 billion dollar cut. The NJEA is suing. Moody’s and Fitch are threatening to further lower the state’s credit rating.

Wealthy people, thank heavens, are safe. After saying that “there’s nothing off the table” concerning the budget, it turns out that there is something off the table, and that’s any revenue from wealthier residents or businesses. So essentially what we have is the Republican ideology that says that unions are destructive, raising revenue is not viable, and the middle class must bear the brunt of the costs of quality public schools and public services. And if they can’t pay for it, then oh well.

I’ll say it again: Christie will not win another general election in his lifetime. Donors know it, which is why they’re looking more favorably at Jeb Bush (shudder), and the far right has already abandoned him. Meanwhile, those of us who still proudly live in New Jersey will need to endure Christie for an entire second term.

Perhaps after that, we can begin to move forward.

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New Analysis – Democrats Will Maintain Senate After Midterms

According to Upshot via The New York Times, Democrats now have a 57% chance if keeping power in the Senate.

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We Have Pictures Of All 30 Million Republicans Who Tried to Overthrow Obama -PICS

Last week was a busy week for the crazy Republicans trying to take over the government. They had a march on Washington, did you know? Well that’s what I’m here for. To bring your attention to the 30 million people they expected to show up to overthrow the government.

We have pictures of the riots. Here they are:

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Will and Jada Smith Being Investigated By Child Protective Services

Only a matter of time. With all the sexually suggestive pictures of the couple’s kids blasting the internet, pictures showing the Smith’s children in somewhat awkward positions with adults, it was like daring Child Protective Services to investigate.

Well, Child Protective Services are investigating.

The Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services has reportedly opened an investigation into an incident involving a controversial photo of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, says Radar Online.

“The investigation was formally opened last week and is being taken very seriously by the department,” a source told Radar. “Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have been extremely cooperative with officials. Of course, they aren’t happy that their parenting skills are under scrutiny, but they understand.”

20-year-old actor Moises Arias posted an image on Instagram of himself in bed with Willow Smith. Willow Smith can be seen wearing jeans and a shirt in the black and white image while Arias is shirtless with his lower half not fully visible. After he posted the photo, the image cause quite the uproar with many drawing conclusions about the extent of the pair’s relationship. Arias is a family friend of the Smiths and very close friend to Willow’s brother, Jaden Smith.

Jada Pinkett Smith spoke out at photographers at LAX days after the controversy began, telling them that there was nothing provocative about the image and people took the photo out of context.

“Here’s the deal,” Jada Pinkett Smith said on May 7. “There was nothing sexual about that picture or that situation. You guys are projecting your trash onto it. You’re acting like covert pedophiles and that’s not cool.”

According to Radar’s source, social workers will also speak separately with Willow about the incident.

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Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak Calls Global Warming believers “Unpatriotic Racists”

I now know why I never liked The wheel of Fortune. On Monday, host Pat Sajak pointed out the reason. Pat Sajak is a non believer in Global Warming.

Apparently the Republican nonsense has overpowered the Wheel of Fortune star, prompting him to use his twitter account to call environmentalists “unpatriotic” and even “racists.”

“I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends,” Sajak tweeted without context. “Good night.”

This is hardly the first time that the TV host has taken it upon himself to comment on the environment on Twitter. Earlier this week, he wrote,

“Help…climate changing…must send money to lots of places…a lot of money…hurry…time is short…not kidding…” and “Very hot weather: ‘We’re all going to die!’ Very cold weather: ‘There’s a difference between climate & weather, moron!’”

While Sajak has kept his political views off of his Vanna White-assisted show, he has reportedly been a frequent financial contributor to the Republican Party and conservative candidates. The game show star has given a reported $10,000 to political causes.

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Be Happy in Iran, Get Arrested

Arrested for dancing to Pharrell’s Happy.

Six Iranians are behind bars after they appeared in a fan video set to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” the American hit song that has sold millions of downloads worldwide.

Tehran Police Chief Hossein Sajedinia ordered the arrests of the three men and three women because they helped make an “obscene video clip that offended the public morals and was released in cyberspace,” the Iranian Student News Agency reported Wednesday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani may think differently, if a post on his Twitter account is any indication.

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“#Happiness is our people’s right. We shouldn’t be too hard on behaviors caused by joy,” the post read in what appears to be a restatement of a Rouhani comment from 2013, based on a date accompanying the tweet.
Pharrell himself denounced the arrests.

“It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness,” the Grammy Award winner said on his Facebook page.

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