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French TV SLAMS Conservatives For Politicizing Paris Attacks: ‘Newt Gingrich, Shame On You’ (VIDEO)

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/13/french-tv-slams-conservatives-for-politicizing-paris-attacks-newt-gingrich-shame-on-you-video/

watch the video and the shameless republican attempt to use tragedy to promote guns and collateral deaths  nothing new remember every American gun tragedy was met with the same rhetoric

Give me your tired and your poor- unless you are from the Middle East - then keep off the grass

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/16/1450743/-Give-me-your-tired-and-your-poor-unless-you-are-from-the-Middle-East-then-keep-off-the-grass?detail=email

I contrast that with the governors of various states, including my home, Wisconsin, who have said that they will not allow Syrian refugees to be placed in their states. To equate all Muslims with terrorists is akin to equating all Christians with the Westboro Baptist Church. Using ignorance, fear, and bigotry to make decisions is not a way to lead. True leadership would be opening our doors to refugees — not fearing them.

It seems as if we have forgotten the placard at the base of the Statue of Liberty:

“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

it's not forgotten it's ignored and not their mantle they are those who want to take the country back to pre civil war and pre Statue of Liberty days  when you forget but embrace you still except it when you don't it's not part of your vocabulary 

The Koch brothers have a surveillance program and staff—to spy on liberals

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/18/1451536/-The-Kochs-have-a-surveillance-program-and-staff-To-spy-on-liberals?detail=email

The operation, which is little-known even within the Koch network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as "competitive intelligence" that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify potential threats to the expansive network.

The competitive intelligence team has a staff of 25, including one former CIA analyst, and operates from one of the non-descript Koch network offices clustered near the Courthouse metro stop in suburban Arlington, Va. It has provided network officials with documents detailing confidential voter-mobilization plans by major Democrat-aligned groups. 

It also sends regular "intelligence briefing" emails tracking the canvassing, phone-banking and voter-registration efforts of labor unions, environmental groups and their allies, according to documents reviewed by POLITICO and interviews with a half-dozen sources with knowledge of the group.

The competitive intelligence team has gathered on-the-ground intelligence from liberal groups' canvassing events in an effort to assess the technology and techniques of field efforts to boost Democrats, according to the sources. And they say the team utilizes high-tech tactics to track the movements of liberal organizers, including culling geo-data embedded in their social media posts.

Is this all just kind of creepy? No. It's extremely creepy.

"While the Republican Party focuses on winning elections, the Kochs want to realign American politics, government and society around free enterprise philosophies that they hope to spread more broadly." They want to remake American society in their own image. Which, by the way, would be pretty fucking profitable for them. So it's really nothing for them to drop several hundreds of millions to do so.

But they're not just spending hundreds of millions to acquire elected officials—they're doing it to counter the spending of their "enemies," the big donors backing liberals. To do that effectively, according to what Politico's Ken Vogel is reporting, they have to track their activities. And those of their allies: "public sector unions and academic and media elites." 

The main focus appears to be the Democracy Alliance, a "a club of wealthy liberal donors and influential operatives" that has steered about $500 million to candidates and causes in the past 10 years. That would be in contrast to the $889 million the Kochs plan to aggregate and spend in 2016, alone.

that interview with Scarborough was a day at the park with all is not as it seems about the Kochs and they were right it's worst.  isn't there laws against this kind of skulduggery it's cheating to gain advantage that otherwise would create aq level playing field.  we know republicans and the right don't believe in we the people believing in them so this is their plan lie cheat and steal and disenfranchise voters.   big money at stake for those who would be Caesar they don't intend to miss out.

1950s Superman could teach 2015 Republicans a thing or two about America

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451574/-1950s-Superman-could-teach-2015-Republicans-a-thing-or-two-about-America?detail=email

i was looking to se "teruth , justice and the American way but when you think about it that no longer is a valid statement or of a three way oxymoron.  i do like what i see it is more current and addresses the problem with no spin potential  good one

Trump goes from maybe to 'absolutely' on closing U.S. mosques

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/18/1451529/-Trump-goes-from-maybe-to-absolutely-on-closing-U-S-mosques?detail=email

Oh, Donald Trump. The only man brave enough to say the things nobody else wants to say because they’re ugly even by the standards of today’s broken American politics:

"Nobody wants to say this and nobody wants to shut down religious institutions or anything, but you know, you understand it. A lot of people understand it. We’re going to have no choice," the Republican presidential said in an interview from Trump Tower on Fox News' "Hannity" on Tuesday night.

“Absolutely no choice,” in fact. This is an upgrade (or downgrade) from Monday, when Trump was just saying he’d “strongly consider” closing mosques. As for Syrian refugees, Trump’s totally unsurprising position is that:

"We can't take a chance. You know, if you take thousands of people, and again I hear it's going to be many more than what you're talking about right now. But if you take thousands of people, Sean, all you need is a couple. You know, you don't need 25, you don't need 100," he said. "Look at the damage done in Paris with just a few people."

Why, one person could walk into a theater or a school and kill one or even two dozen people, all by himself. And if we don’t let Syrian refugees into this country, that could never happen! We’re completely safe as long as we reject vulnerable victims of war and make gun ownership ridiculously easy. But we better close the mosques at which Muslim citizens worship, just to be extra safe.

The only thing coherent and consistent here is the appeal to fear.  

short and sweet, did anyone tell these republicans you can't win the WH or an out house with just the redneck hater's vote???????  there is no one left to alienate unless those hate voters wake up and realize they too are in the cross hairs of republican denial than i bet they won't even vote for themselves.  like Groucho Marx said "why would i want to belong to a club that has me as a member"????????????????????????????????

Donald Trump says he has the power to 'predict' terrorism

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451276/-Donald-Trump-says-he-has-the-power-to-predict-terrorism?detail=email

Donald Trump, terrorism psychic.

The Republican frontrunner boasted of his innate “instinct” for predicting terrorist threats, he told a packed crowd at Tennessee’s Knoxville Convention Center Monday night.

“In my book I predicted terrorism because I can feel it,” said Trump, who has made his billions developing casinos and hotels. “I can feel it like I feel a good location.”

I've heard candidates promise secret plans for winning wars, and secret plans for "replacing" Obamacare are forever not arriving, but this may be the first time a candidate has suggested that they have a secret superpower for predicting terrorism.

Mind you, his declared "prediction" in the year 2000 that Osama Bin Laden wanted to strike the United States was less a Donald Trump superpower and more the thing that Every Goddamn Person Other Than The People Hired By George W. Bush knew, so I'm not sure we should count that one. And if he's "predicted" anything else, he has not yet shared it with the rest of us. Presumably because we have not paid the required terrorism prediction subscription fee.

But no doubt if we elect Donald Trump president, he will use his terrorism prediction capabilities to predict, um, terrorism. 

The sad thing? It's still better than Jeb Bush's pitch.

nah what's sad is their are people out there that would vote for him on that hyperbole alone.  did he just develop this super power because just wondering why he couldn't predict his multiple bankruptcies Bush well he's scared of his shadow.

Christian groups recoil at just how un-Christian the GOP's treatment of Syrian refugees is

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451591/-Christian-groups-recoil-at-just-how-un-Christian-the-GOP-s-treatment-of-Syrian-refugees-is?detail=email

Christian conservatives have a history of picking and choosing when to actually espouse the Christian value of compassion, but many faith-based organizations are wisely choosing to do so on the issue of Syrian refugees. They seem shocked to learn, however, that Republican politicians—after years of demagoguing hate and derision on issues like LGBT rights, among others—are political opportunists rather than actual adherents to anything that would resemble the Golden Rule.

More than two dozen GOP governors have said Syrian refugees aren't welcome in their state—never mind the fact that they don't actually get to decide. Ted Cruz doesn't care who's fleeing the crisis or how desperate they are, he's introducing legislation to ban them from the U.S. if they're Muslim. And Chris Christie is worried that orphan toddlers aren't being properly vetted.

“I don’t think orphans under 5 are being, you know, should be admitted into the United States at this point.”

The near unanimous overt display of hostility toward our fellow humanity has dismayed Christian groups working on refugee issues, reports Nahal Toosi.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement expressing distress over calls by elected officials to halt the resettlement program.

"These refugees are fleeing terror themselves — violence like we have witnessed in Paris," said the statement by Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, chairman of the conference's committee on migration. "Instead of using this tragedy to scapegoat all refugees, I call upon our public officials to work together to end the Syrian conflict peacefully so the close to 4 million Syrian refugees can return to their country and rebuild their homes. Until that goal is achieved, we must work with the world community to provide safe haven to vulnerable and deserving refugees who are simply attempting to survive." 

The National Association of Evangelicals also joined the call for empathy.

“Of course we want to keep terrorists out of our country, but let’s not punish the victims of ISIS for the sins of ISIS,” said Leith Anderson, NAE president.

The groups also point out that the rhetoric of candidates like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee, who are supposedly appealing to Evangelical voters, isn't in keeping with their Christian constituencies. 

you know republicans and right wing media are tryinig to jam down out throats an acceptance of their broad term "EXTREME ISLAMIC TERRORISM" so why don't they want us to use "EXTREME CHRISTIAN TERRORISM"  considering what they are doing to American citizens who don't hate or practice racism and bigotry in the name of God and blaing it on others they say are suppressing their religious freedoms?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

calling for empathy for foreigners but burn in hell for fellow Americans.  how can you be extremely oppressive of one but a potential threat of terrorism is exceptable i think it's a buch of ELEPHANT DUNG TO IMPROVE THEIR IMAGE THAT THEIR OWN CHILDREN ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM.

http://www.alternet.org/story/154051/why_young_people_are_fleeing_conservative_evangelicalism

The one map that sums up the Syrian refugee pants-wetter situation

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451712/-The-one-map-that-sums-up-the-Syrian-refugee-pants-wetter-situation?detail=email

hmmmm well that's in keeping with those bigoted states and republican governors that passed carry laws guess their guns aren't the to end all safety concerns especially when the carry law which can extend to those refugees but rather than change the law the discriminate on a hypothetical.

Louisiana state police say Bobby Jindal isn't tracking anyone, is full of sh$t

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/18/1451674/-Louisiana-state-police-say-Bobby-Jindal-isn-t-tracking-anyone-is-full-of-sh-t?detail=email

Remember how former presidential candidate and all-around crummy human being Governor Bobby Jindal said, in a last-ditch effort to remind people of his existence, that he would ban Syrian refugees (even orphans) from entering his economically depressed state of Louisiana? Maybe you remember him writing to President Obama demanding answers GODDAMMIT!!!! Maybe you remember his appearance yesterday, on the apex of journalism’s Fox News saying:

“I issued an executive order telling my agencies to do everything we can. We don’t want these refugees in our state. I’ve ordered the state police to track the ones that are already in Louisiana.”It turns out Bobby “It’s My Prerogative” Jindal isn’t much for telling the God’s honest truth about what he does or doesn’t do. 

Asked if it was true the state police would be tracking Syrian refugees in the state, Doug Cain, spokesman for the state police, said: “No, no.”

He added: “We are just keeping an open line of communication with federal authorities to make sure everyone is safely settled. We’re not going to be tracking people, following people, anything like that.”

Let me paraphrase the above quote for you: Governor Bobby Jindal is Full. Of. Shit. Other ways to paraphrase Governor Bobby Jindal:

Narcissistic.

Homophobic.

Dumb as a brick.

i think it's too late for this one the state police kinda sealed his fate swimming with the fishes.  why would they defy and deny with such voracity if he were doing such a great job looks like they want him out as well as his constituents they are tossing anchors not lifesavers

http://blogs.theadvocate.com/politicsblog/2015/05/12/bobby-jindal-poll-job-performance-new-low/

Cartoon: The GOP's Holy War

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451296/-Cartoon-The-GOP-s-Holy-War?detail=email 

there are those in the republican party and most in the right wing that know exactly what they are doing they have been for years trying to instigate attacks by extremist by actions and rhetoric from constantly saying the Pres. is weak though he's taken down more of their elite than republicans ever thought about they were too busy bashing Pres. to notice what was really happening and when they did know they lied about it's validity and blamed Pres.

some don't know they just follow the talking point de jour or saying the stupid crap.  Trump has money and interest we don't know about war is profitable for those who just want more money he is that kind of person he brags about what he tells us he has probably tearing him apart that he can't give his real net worth.

i say that to say do you really think he would not be involved someway like Cheney/Bush and their oil think about all the real estate opportunities he would be privy to he brags also how he can out deal is that just Trump for nefarious dealer???????????  keep in mind where the war talk comes from and who profits.  vote your interest and it can't be more war be honest.

BBC asks Anonymous about its threat against ISIS—the answers may surprise you

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451617/-BBC-asks-Anonymous-about-its-threat-against-ISIS-What-are-the-aims-of-your-operations?detail=email

The idea/entity called Anonymous has been making international headlines over the last 30 days. In late October they threatened to reveal 1,000 KKK identities in Twitter OperationKKK (#OpKKK) and Operation HoodsOff (#HoodsOff). Shortly after the threat, Anonymous revealed a plethora of KKK members, organizations and followers. 

After November’s Paris, Beirut, and the Russian airline massacres by ISIS,  Anonymous has made a new video message threatening ISIS. The new Operation is called #OpParis. In the video, Anonymous claims they will hunt ISIS down and not let up in avenging the horrific ISIS slaughters. 

Earlier in the year after ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris Charlie Hebdo executions, Anonymous publicly threatened ISIS and reportedly followed through with social media shutdowns meant to cut of the head of the ISIS snake. Both ISIS and Anonymous are internet experts and they use cyberspace for the core of their communication and operations.  

Monday morning, Anonymous claimed to have taken down thousands of Twitter accounts allegedly linked to ISIS members, affiliates, and followers. The list first appeared on the Pastebin.com site. It was then removed and transferred to PadRiseUp site, then removed again. 

Some of the public and media briefly saw the list. However, the list still needs to be confirmed and verified. Anonymous had some trouble in the past with individuals and groups posing as anons. The impostors have released misinformation most likely to discredit Anonymous. For the most part it hasn’t worked. Though Anonymous has its share of naysayers who are yet to be convinced of the entity’s legitimacy, after OpKKK, more of the public has faith in the intentions of Anonymous.

BBC’s Technology correspondent Roy Cellan-Jones attempted a live interview with Anonymous:

I asked the person behind the Operation Paris account for a phone interview. I was told that was impossible - but he (he appears to be an Italian man) agreed to provide written answers to my questions. Bear in mind that it is impossible to know just who is behind the Twitter account and whether they really command a huge army of hackers - but here is how the conversation went:

​Here are two of the five questions BBC asked an alleged “Anon.”

What are the aims of your operation?

Our main goal in this operation is to identify the perpetrators of the Paris terror attacks and all terrorist organizations linked to them, acquire intel to dig deep into the roots of their manpower, disable their propaganda and stop their reach on social media, release their information to the public, and flag down any threat to mankind.

Isn't it better for the fight against IS if its members talk openly on Twitter where the security services can see them, rather than being driven underground?

The propaganda of ISIS is based on advertising their actions. They want to strike terror with their name, with bloody images, with violent videos. We can not fight them with guns and rifles, stopping their propaganda is an effective way to weaken their manpower and their presence in the Internet. Disrupting their communications makes it difficult to organise their attacks in a fluid manner.

The Anonymous mission statement:
We are Anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us
What most don’t know, and some fear, is exactly what to expect.

the point made about ISIS and cyber abilities is spot on why haven't the congress advanced this thwey seem to avoid or deny any actions that lead to ending aggression's ours or theirs.  no money in peace. they want us to lead but their maps all lead to more of our children dead or maimed.  all the weak accusations and leading from behind is their way of saying he's not about war like they are we can thank God for that had they won 2012 we'd be knee deep in blood and treasure losses.

recognize listen to what republicans say and hear the rhetoric it changes when we actually listen from protecting us to leading us in battle.  this is not a kingdom they are not kings and our military are not their knights and for us it's not a religious war that is for those in the middle east and some just aggression and power those would be the foreign right wing counterparts to republicans here.

Psst, governors ... you can't actually refuse Syrian refugees

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/16/1450704/-Psst-governors-you-can-t-actually-refuse-Syrian-refugees?detail=email

Governors continue to line up to posture about how they’ll refuse to admit Syrian refugees to their states, but … can they even do that? According to Ian Millhiser, the answer is a clear-cut no:

As the Supreme Court explained in Hines v. Davidowitz, “the supremacy of the national power in the general field of foreign affairs, including power over immigration, naturalization and deportation, is made clear by the Constitution.” States do not get to overrule the federal government on matters such as this one.

Just in case there is any doubt, President Obama has explicit statutory authorization to accept foreign refugees into the United States. Under the Refugee Act of 1980, the president may admit refugees who face “persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion” into the United States, and the president’s power to do so is particularly robust if they determine that an “unforeseen emergency refugee situation” such as the Syrian refugee crisis exists.

That’s not saying these profile-in-courage governors—which sadly include at least one Democrat, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan—can’t find ways to make it more difficult for the federal government to settle refugees in their states, or make life more difficult for the refugees (think of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s promise to send law enforcement after any Syrians who happen to end up in Louisiana). But they can’t flat-out refuse.

All this posturing because these governors would rather hand Islamic State terrorists a public relations and moral win rather than seem insufficiently Tough On Terror in the eyes of the most fear-prone voters.

hate and bigotry rots your mind and what better proof then republicans and their voters they all have the same fleas.  instead of adjusting to humanity they choose to let bigotry prevail is there anything White people don't fear aside from maybe police??????????????????????????

what happened to the we have to be the leader we have to be number one i see those things only count when it's war mongering boy have some Americans bought that proverbial pig in a poke with no lipstick  scared of everything until the republicans decide to go after it with a vengeance than they all hitch those wagons and ride through the elephant dung of cherry picked fear, smell you later/s

Chris Christie is so tough he's afraid of Syrian orphans under the age of five

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451029/-Chris-Christie-is-so-tough-he-s-afraid-of-Syrian-orphans-under-the-age-of-five?detail=email

Chris Christie likes to act like a tough guy, and on Monday he showed what it means to be a tough guy in today’s Republican Party. You’re not tough because you defy fear. You’re tough because your heart is hard. And how better to show the hardness of your heart than by rejecting the absolute most vulnerable victims of war? That’s what Christie told Hugh Hewitt he’d do when Hewitt asked him what his policy would be on admitting Syrian refugees to the United States. Christie’s simple answer was that he didn’t trust the Obama administration’s vetting process, “so I would not permit them in.”

Hewitt pressed: “What if they were orphans under the age of five?” Christie’s response is one for the ages:

You know, Hugh, we can come up with 18 different scenarios. The fact is that we need for appropriate vetting and I don’t think orphans under five are being, you know, should be admitted into the United States at this point. They have no family here, how are we going to care for these folks? The fact is, you can come up with a number of different scenarios, Hugh, but in the end I don’t trust this administration to effectively vet the people that they’re asking us to take in. We need to put the safety and security of the American people first.

“They have no family here.” 

BECAUSE THEY’RE TODDLER ORPHANS.

Actually, of course, they may have family here. What if a three-year-old Syrian refugee orphan has an entire family of cousins living in the United States? Is Christie still standing firm against that threat to “the safety and security of the American people”? And if said refugee toddler orphan doesn’t have family here, maybe she doesn’t have family anywhere. 

After all, a lot of Syrians have been killed in their home country or trying to escape it. So if a child has no family, then every country should reject her because “how are we going to care for these folks,” appears to be Christie’s answer. Why? Because even children are scary to Republicans, if they’re potentially Muslim children. Because it all comes back to that definition of toughness. It’s not about standing strong. 

It’s not about being big enough to say “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.” It’s not about rejecting fear to embrace any of the Bible’s invocations of hospitality. 

It’s just about saying “I am hard enough to say no to terrified children.”

this article is self contained it hits all points of republican apathy  short and sweet going on pics of Christie and the baby above guess it's true elephants really are afraid of mice or under five babies ahh when they were soooooo in love with the fetuses.  it's also about saying i'm republican and you aren't wanted here that is why we're taking our country back so we can freely discriminate with impunity.

French President, unlike the Republican Party, refuses to appease ISIS and will take 30,000 refugees

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451509/-French-President-unlike-the-Republican-Party-refuses-to-appease-ISIS-and-will-take-30-000-refugees?detail=email

Since Friday’s horrific attacks in Paris, the Republican Party has delighted ISIS by tripping over themselves to declare that the United States shouldn’t take in Syrian refugees because … uh … well, because even if they didn’t have anything to do with the attacks, they are Muslims, so why not equate all of them with the terrorists who murdered at least 129 people last week? After all, their base loves it. French President François Hollande, on the other hand, decided that France would not bow down to terrorists:

So there you have it: A principled, humane stand against terrorism versus cowardly fear-mongering. Of course this shouldn’t come as any surprise given that the last brave thing the Republican Party did was to rename french fries in the congressional cafeteria … you remember, to mock the cowardly French. 

have you noticed every time their is a armed aggression or conflict republicans are quick to demean Pres. as leading from behind not hard enough but of all the things they've called him and others when the was is done it's them that exhibit theses things they make out vto be so terrible  they are still at it doing the dirt or pointing out the dirt as Pres.'s but it really is based on their own fears and inadequacies.  like Pres. said they can't even handle debate monitors or themselves without crying

Americans demanding war refugees be turned away are reading from a very old script

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451200/-Americans-demanding-war-refugees-be-turned-away-are-reading-from-a-very-old-script?detail=email

David Gershon:

When the Wagner-Rogers Bill was proposed in Congress, providing for the resettlement of 20,000 Jews, it didn’t even make it to a vote, being rejected by President Roosevelt and a majority of lawmakers, including Senator Robert Taft (R-OH), who argued that even Jewish children would be a threat to the United States. And that year, desperate Jews fleeing Europe on a number of ships, including the St. Louis, were turned away from our shores.

Ishaan Tharoor:

It's worth remembering this mood when thinking about the current moment, where the United States is once more in the throes of a debate over letting in refugees. Ever since Friday's terror attacks in Paris, the Republicans, led by their presidential candidates, have sounded the alarm over the threat of jihadist infiltration from Syria — even though it now appears every single one of the identified assailants was a European national.

The thing is self-evident. Refugees fleeing ISIS are, by definition, refugees fleeing ISIS. These are families so terrorized by the brutalities of ISIS, or Assad, or the myriad other groups jockeying for Syrian power that they can see no alternative but to abandon their home country entirely. All the things ISIS has done against western citizens or western journalists are minuscule compared to the barbarism that continues to be inflicted against Syrian Muslims themselves.

Historically, however, turning away refugees fleeing possible death in their home countries has repeatedly been declared the "American" thing to do—if those refugees are deemed to be from an undesirable ethnic group. We indeed turned away Jews fleeing Hitler. We interned Japanese Americans under the purely racial presumption that terrorists or saboteurs could easily be hiding among their number, thus necessitating putting the entire population in fenced and guarded concentration camps. 

It was only months, not years ago that unaccompanied children fleeing Central American gang and drug violence were considered a potential occupying force so dangerous that critics insisted the National Guard—if not the standing Army—must be dispatched to make sure they could not cross our borders, and towns in several border states erupted in fury after rumors flew that those children might be housed somewhere nearby. Warning against the dangers of refugee children in particular has a long, long history in America.

When Chris Christie demands that not even orphaned toddlers be allowed to resettle here, he is reading from a very old script.

we know there is nothing new from that side their discriminative bigotry has been passed down to the point of being embedded i their genes it's selfish and apathetic and less competition because refugees and immigrants if allowed lead to the Dem party not the republican intolerable's of whom i might mention are themselves all in the same box of immigrants but those who made it and realized a better life now want to deny it to others, and they call themselves Christians and this country the greatest.

More than 2,000 suspected terrorists on the FBI watchlist had no trouble buying firearms

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/17/1451153/-A-couple-of-thousand-suspected-terrorists-on-the-FBI-watch-list-had-no-trouble-buying-firearms?detail=email

"Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives under current federal law," the Government Accountability Office concluded in 2010. The law prohibits felons, fugitives, drug addicts and domestic abusers from purchasing a firearm in the United States. But people on the FBI's consolidated terrorist watchlist — typically placed there when there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are a known or suspected terrorist — can freely purchase handguns or assault-style rifles.

And, as the GAO found, a number of them do: Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from American dealers at least 2,233 times. And in 2,043 of those cases — 91 percent of the time — they succeeded. There are about 700,000 people on the watch-list — a point that civil libertarians have made to underscore that many on the list may be family members or acquaintances of people with potential terrorist connections.

Now there are a lot of problems with the terrorist watchlist. As Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux have noted, the guidelines for putting people on the list don’t require any evidence they are actually linked to a terrorist organization. That means a lot of people on the list shouldn’t be, perhaps hundreds of thousands of them:

“Instead of a watchlist limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,” says Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “On that dangerous theory, the government is secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists and giving them the impossible task of proving themselves innocent of a threat they haven’t carried out.” Shamsi, who reviewed the [guidelines] document, added, “These criteria should never have been kept secret.”

So, clearly, the watchlist itself needs improvement and that ought to come first. But nonetheless, there surely are many thousands of people who are legitimately on the list. And those who are should surely be barred from legally obtaining firearms. 

But as usual, the National Rifle Association has stood in the way of legislation that is designed to prohibit terrorists from purchasing firearms legally, and that obstructionism goes back to 2007.

Naturally, one the NRA’s arguments is that terrorists will just acquire firearms illegally, so such a law would only hurt “law-abiding citizens.” The gun lobby also trots out its standard rap about this kind of legislation being “sponsored by gun-control extremists." 

This year, as Ingraham points out, there is a new piece of legislation—the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015—sponsored by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Rep. Peter T. King of New York. The bill has 17 co-sponsors, all of them Democrats. 

Previous versions had several Republican co-sponsors. Since February, the latest bill—H.R. 1076—has been sitting in the House Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. There is very good chance it will meet the same fate as its predecessors and never get off the committee’s shelf. 

NRA and the republican congress prevent a vote on control as long as they have the keys they will never allow meaningful regulation even though the NRA is losing it's to be feared rating by politicians and it's membership those hold outs who still are afraid to anger the NRA  they will go the way of the cold dead hands  it's our ball whose court we place it in determines bills like theses passing. too many of those "enthusiast" are more selfish then caring in some cases even for their own dead children and those next in line for that proverbial safety accident.

so far all these gun people have done is murder other Americans, carelessly caused the deaths of their own children, parade around stores and public places just to frighten other Americans  also parading around Ferguson and places like that under the pretext of assisting the law really law enforcement needs self from assigned militias and KKK AND Promise Keepers all strapped for bear oh and cowardly snipers confront federal agents ion behave of a law breaking land mooching on your tax dollar dead beat.  oh yeah and blame you for not having guns to protect school kids

Texas representative notices war refugees could buy guns in Texas, duly freaks out

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451133/-Texas-representatives-notices-war-refugees-could-buy-guns-in-Texas-duly-freaks-out?detail=email

A Texas state representative has thought very hard about things, put two and two together, and concluded that Texas cannot possibly accommodate people fleeing ISIS violence in Syria because Texas law makes it far too easy for any unhinged maniacs among them to purchase a gun. The answer, of course, is not to restrict the gun rights of unhinged maniacs but to turn away the war refugees—but if by some chance war refugees do end up in Texas (stupid American Constitution, how we chafe at it) well then we're just gonna have to mark them as being special cases that Do Not Get Rights.

According to Fox7 Austin, State Representative Tony Dale (R-Cedar Park) sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott (R) saying that current Texas laws, combined with how the federal government grants rights to refugees, would allow the newly arrived Syrians to arm themselves immediately.

Homegrown terrorists are, of course, still perfectly free to arm themselves immediately, that being America's foremost True Freedom and the reason the rest of the world looks up to us and longs to be us. His proposal is to give these refugees special refugee identification that still allows them to maybe drive cars (the second of the True Freedoms) but can't be used as your state-issued identification for buying guns.

“California when they issue drivers licenses to non-citizens specifically says that it is not to be used for a Federal purpose, not to be used for employment and that means it cannot be used to board a plane … and presumably it could not be used to purchase a gun,” said Dale.

This does not appear to actually be true; non-citizens can indeed purchase guns in California. So Rep. Dale is proposing a gun restriction that even the hippies in California can't stomach, but it is all right because Brown People.

So once again, the crowd that considers the right to pack heat a right worth "nullifying" federal laws over, or even possibly secede over, the freedom that allows Good and Proper Americans to stand up against Jade Helm, or to mount themselves on bridges in preparation to murder federal employees enforcing cattle restrictions, finds themselves thoroughly wigged at the thought that some non-white person somewhere might avail themselves of the same rights, or the same unhinged anti-government logics.

The response is not to rein in the insane people waving guns around, but to give the immigrants a special mark to denote that the right to "defend yourself" does not apply to them, and does not apply only to them. Yes, this might sound familiar to history buffs. Plus ça change, and so on.

i really have nothing to add it reflects my thoughts down to the last letter especially the only arming their crazies republicans always stacking the deck always cheating not the American way i fought for almost 50 years ago  republicans used to make pretty words even though their intent was ugly now it's all encompassing ugly words ugly agendas from ugly spirited people.  who are really more scary the people in that picture above or those walking around your grocery store with AR-15 over their back 9 mm strapped to their leg and a bandoleer across their chest and a beer in the other hand  than there's this guy,

Rep. Westmoreland: Hillary Clinton laid 'a trap' for Benghazi committee by answering their questions

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451238/-Rep-Westmoreland-Hillary-Clinton-laid-a-trap-for-Benghazi-committee-by-answering-their-questions?detail=email

We have two possibilities before us. First, that House Republicans purposefully stacked their Benghazi! select committee with the dumbest, most inept, most incompetent twits they could round up. Or second, that they didn't do that and the whole sodding Congress is just this dumb.

Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a member of the House Select Committee On Benghazi, said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid “a trap” for the committee by making her Oct. 22 appearance go “as long as possible.”

Mind you, of all the people in that hearing room, the one least able to control how long the committee would sit on their behinds and ask former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton long, sometimes bizarre questions was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She was not allowed to just pick up and go home, even after the first four, six, eight, and 10 hours of questions proved that Republicans had absolutely no new information or questions or the

theories that might require her actual presence there. Republicans could have, say, limited their robust speechifying and instead asked a few more actual questions. They could have paid attention to their own rules on how long questions could go on, and perhaps gently persuaded the worst of the blowhards to give it a rest when their time had officially expired.

But no, the "trap" that they stumbled into was that Hillary Clinton somehow brain-tricked them into droning on with debunked theories and pointless talking points for 11 hours, even after Rep. Trey Gowdy had melted into a nondescript puddle in his own high-backed chair, even long after it had become clear that this had all been a wonderfully elaborate waste of everybody's day. It was her that done it.

So that will likely be the next hearing: The Benghazi committee will summon Hillary Clinton once again, this time to demand that she explain why their last Benghazi hearing went on so long. Rep. Westmoreland will get to the bottom of this.

Oh—but not before a nice, taxpayer-funded trip to Europe!

“Next week we’ll be going to Germany and to Italy to do some more research, on the Benghazi,” he said.

Mm-hmm. "Research." Let's hope Hillary Clinton doesn't force the Benghazi committee members to stay in top-notch hotels and eat seven-course gourmet meals on their taxpayer-provided European vacation, because she's just tricky enough to do it.

i've said when you hate for no legitimate reason you must go down the rabbit hole, it's ludicrous to even think Hillary used some kind of Jedi mind manipulation on all those republicans trying their best to be the one who claims the "gotcha" prize driven as they are they tend to be more maniacal than out for truth.  here's a heads up republicans you will never find truth when you really aren't looking for it but rest assured it will find you. please continue.....

going abroad adding to that 4.5 million price tag does show fiscal responsibility it shows insanity pursuing nothing while flipping the taxpayers the birdie.  keep an eye out for paid liars and the check!!!!!!  this reminds me of a Motown song by the Marvelettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hobp_tMTa0E

Obama Torches GOP as Cowards

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451394/-Obama-Torches-GOP-as-Cowards?detail=email

Speaking to reporters momenta ago in the Philippines, President Obama hammered Republicans demagoguing and demonizing Syrian refugees, saying: "think they're so tough."

"At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn't seem so tough to me," Obama said, referring to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's assertion that not even refugee children should be allowed into the United States.

Obama says he's open to ideas for enhancing the screening process but adds that's not what's happening in the political debate. He says the idea of only allowing Christian Syrians to enter runs contrary to American values, calling it "offensive."

He says rhetoric like that is a potential recruitment tool for the Islamic State group.

"I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that's been coming out of here during the course of this debate," he said.

i agree republicans are sabotaging the foreign affairs agenda just like the Pres.'s agenda for healthcare, jobs social nets they are destroying the country expecting you to vote them back in so they can turn off their faucet of obstruction save America they destroyed that is sick and some kinda warped Munchausen disorder,  create the kaos then when you get your way you appear to be tha saviors  that sounds like Charles Manson helter skelter plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome_by_proxy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(Manson_scenario)

Cartoon: How to tell the difference between ISIS and Muslims

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1450855/-Cartoon-How-to-tell-the-difference-between-ISIS-and-Muslims?detail=email

The GOP is demanding that the Democratic presidential candidates use the term “radical Islam” to refer to ISIS. Yet it’s hard to imagine them making similar demands that various acts of homegrown terrorism be called the work of “radical Christians.” Many would argue that simply committing such an act means one is not a true Christian. 

By the same token, ISIS is not Islamic, as Islam is understood and practiced by the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims. So why insist on the label, unless you have an axe to grind about a faith you deem inferior? Why add to the Islamophobic backlash that has already led to a Texas mosque having its front door hit with feces?

ISIS thinks in terms of a “clash of civilizations,” and (surprise!) so do American right-wingers. Anyone framing this issue as The West vs. Islam is playing right into ISIS’s hands.

right wing religion squeals they are being religiously suppressed but don't you first have to have at least an ounce of religion to be suppressed??????  those who are leaders of hate are from that sect that suppresses while claiming to be suppressed the hypocrisy is glaring Muslims don't defile their churches nor do they stand outside and defame them with vitriolic tirades of violence to them or threaten with death and mayhem.

which of those groups are most representative of ISIS American Muslims or American haters and bigots????????????????????????????????????????

 

British Muslims send message to ISIS and the world—and it's spot on

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1450387/-British-Muslims-a-send-message-to-ISIS-and-the-world?detail=email

Often scorned and associated with terrorists, innocent Muslims around the world have suffered ridicule, discrimination, abuse, torture and murder. This is perpetuated by those who are ignorant, misinformed, racist—or flat out racist. Certain media platforms like FOX ‘News’ and the Conservative radio ‘hate parade’ propagate fear-based messages out to the public every day. Hate speech also is frequently revealed on social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. 

After 911, may Muslims in America were the victims of hate crimes and some where detained for years suspected of being connected to the likes of Osama Bin Laden. It took nearly a decade for things to improve, but only just a bit. And then in 2013, the Boston Bombing set progress back again. When ISIS formed over the next couple of years and began committing atrocities and publicizing them over the Internet, the perception of Muslims quickly deteriorated. 

ISIS human atrocious and crimes (images are very graphic)  include the rape/selling/murder of girls and women, beheadings of journalist, burning captives alive, and the mass murder of Syrians who fled from ISIS by the millions. With ISIS taking responsibility for last week’s horrific murderous attacks in Beirut and Paris and  a Russian passenger plane, Muslims are once again being associated with the extremist group and around the world Muslims are fearing for their lives. 

Now more than ever, Muslims are beginning to really speak out. During September of 2015, British Muslims launched a campaign to fight the stereotype and dispel the perception that Islam and Muslims are connected to ISIS or any terrorism. After the recent Paris and Beirut attacks, the #NotInMyName Twitter hashtag has taken off. A video created by Active Change Foundation is also making the rounds on social media with this transcription. The Muslims are directing their message to ISIS and the world.

The ISIS do not represent Islam or any Muslim
-Because it’s totally unIslamic
-Because you’re killing innocent people
-Because you’re unjust
#NotInMyName
-Because your leader is a liar
Because your actions to not acutely represent the actions of the Rightly-Guided Companions
-Because your terror doesn’t represent the
-Because what you’re doing is inhumane
-Because you have no compassion
#NotInMyName
#NotInMyName
#NotInMyName…

as poignant as this is i don't hold out for the republicans or their base to change their perception of those they've invested so much effort into demonizing creating their premier bogeyman the glue that keeps them together someone or thing to hate take that away and all they have is Pres. coming for your guns 7 years he hasn't made a move on their guns while republicans pass bills the increase the guns in hand primarily to their crazies if someone of color took advantage of that law they most certainly would be killed.

one thing i've learned is right wing is the same globally and their pit bull like tactics they will not concede to their broad brushing of Muslims is wrong.  how d you you tell those you've been misleading for years "NEVERMIND"  remember they armed these crazies and it would be seen as betrayal and refusal to except it.

just me

hi guys, i've been really sick the last 4 days i managed to post yesterday but Mon. and today not so much i'm medicating and praying that i'll see you tomorrow so keep the porch light lit God Bless

Cartoon: Climate interruptus

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449027/-Cartoon-Climate-interruptus?detail=email

watch the video please!  

Hundreds of French Mourners Chase Off Anti-Immigrant Hate Group

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/15/1450327/-Hundreds-of-French-Mourners-Chase-Off-Anti-Immigrant-Hate-Group?detail=email

From Raw Story:

French mourners in the city of Lille, which is north of Paris, sent anti-immigrant bigots scurrying away after they tried to intrude on a vigil for victims of Friday night’s terrorist attacks, the Independent reports.

The vigil began at 3 p.m. local time but was quickly interrupted by about 15 members of far-right group, the French National Front. The group angered grief-stricken vigil attendees by shouting, “Expel Islamists,” throwing firecrackers and unfurling an Islamophobic banner.

But the bigots were quickly forced to leave when the crowd of hundreds turned on them and forced them to retreat. Security forces intervened before tensions escalated further, according to the British publication.

www.rawstory.com/…

The French National Front is a fringe, anti-immigrant political party whose leader, Marine Le Pen, just yesterday said to reporters,

"Islamist fundamentalism must be annihilated, France must ban Islamist organizations, close radical mosques and expel foreigners who preach hatred in our country as well as illegal migrants who have nothing to do here.” 

www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The bigots’ large banner, translated from the French, read, “Let’s Expel the Islamists”. Hundreds of mourners quickly converged to expel these assholes instead. 

this is what we should have been doing every time hate rears it's ugly face stand up and stand down the bigotry we liberals put way to much compliance to 1st amendment you can't shout fire ijn a crowded theater sowhy should you be allowed to spread hate when it supposedly is not the American way same with the 2nd amendment these people are fake militia and the gov't is not doing anything to to warrant protection from that would be the republican red meat toss  misled, misinformed and totally oblivious to who their real enemy is.

Why aren't the Republicans serious about the presidential race?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/15/1445364/-Why-aren-t-the-Republicans-serious-about-the-presidential-race?detail=email

Because they know that the real battle will be in the states. And the Republicans also know that they don’t need the White House.

While the Democrats must win the presidency to act as a stop-gap against an overwhelmingly conservative Supreme Court that could last for generations, the Republican Party doesn’t have as much to gain by controlling the White House. Control of the Supreme Court and every other rein of federal power is firmly in Republican hands right now.

The 2010 gerrymandering of congressional districts makes it almost impossible for Democrats to win the seats that would truly represent the votes they garner. The Senate is not likely to change hands during 2016—at least not enough to give Democrats the filibuster-proof majority they would need to accomplish anything. The Roberts-led Supreme Court is perhaps the most flagrant, politically partisan court we have ever seen.

So the Republican Party is free to let the circus clowns provide the entertainment its base wants, ensuring that they will send in their contributions and turn out for the primaries as well as the general election. It doesn't matter much whether Ben Carson or Donald Trump runs as their candidate. If a candidate with independent appeal takes the nomination, well, that would be fine too. Not only is a win not absolutely essential, but if they did take the White House, then who would veto all their grandstanding about the Affordable Care Act? 

They have already proven that they can prevent a Democratic president from governing. And that is all they want to do on the federal level, keep the government from actually governing. Oh, and transfer as much wealth as possible to the top one percent and to the corporate oligarchy. But the real action is going on at the state level, where not only does the GOP need to maintain majorities to control the 2010 redistricting, but all of the coffers have not yet been emptied.

The Republicans have spent years building up their state operations. They did not just start in 2010. The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), set up by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, according to Politico, has been in operation since 2002, slowly gaining control of individual states:

The RSLC has more than 150,000 donors in all 50 states. Additionally, Republicans saw net gains in 62 chambers and picked up six lieutenant governors, leading to 31 total Republican lieutenant governors, along with holding a Republican majority of secretaries of state, now at 28. The RSLC successfully expanded the Future Majority Project and “Right Women, Right Now” initiative, spending more than $6 million in direct support of Republican candidates of diverse descent and women, leading to the election of 181 new candidates. Last cycle, the RSLC also launched the Judicial Fairness Initiative and the new top-level domain for the Republican Party, ‘.gop.’

How did they do it? In a word, money. Yes, they inflamed public fears of an undocumented Kenyan Muslim in the White House and the horrific concept of health care being available to everyone, but mostly, it came down to money. And organization. The Republicans knew that a census would allow redistricting and it was imperative that they be operating the levers of power in as many states as possible when the time came to gerrymander their districts. And we were distracted by the townhall hoopla over the Affordable Care Act.

Operation REDMAP damn near swept the table—not just in congressional districts, but in state legislatures and governorships, as well as secretaries of state, who generally administer elections. Created in 2010 by the RSLC to subvert the will of the voters, they boast of how effectively they have done so. In Ohio:

Republican redistricting resulted in a net gain for the GOP state House caucus in 2012, and allowed a 12-4 Republican majority to return to the U.S. House of Representatives – despite voters casting only 52 percent of their vote for Republican congressional candidates.

in short they cheated Americans out of their rights to vote and stole the voices of millions while telling us that the people have spoken yeah but only the ones they want to hear and the scotus well they still don't seem to think they should repeal the decision that killed  sect 4 of voter rights act , of course that is the republican majority of the scotus that did that and still refuses to accept the need to restore it which sends the message that Black votes don't matter, while the party saying it wants to reach out but at every attempt do more to destroy any misguided  Black voters who would vote against their own interest.

this also is part of their drive to "return the power to the state"  haven't we seen what republican controlled states have done to their people, denying healthcare or medicaid expansion taking food stamps not allowing some to buy ketchup with those stamps.  Fla. gov. ordered his admin not tom use words that imply climate change in the face of 97% of our scientist saying it's real.   gun carry laws aimed at their crazies if people of color try to exercise that right they get killed no they aren't serious about the race they are however about control at the grassroots level ie the states.

one final thought they loss last two presidential elections but stole governor and house seats and had it not been for the leadership that they say Pres. doesn't exhibit we would not have the many tings he has done for we the people.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/accomplishments-of-president-barack-obama-by-dccc/111-accomplishments-of-president-barack-obama/377659576289

The sad pathology of the GOP frontrunners

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/15/1448283/-The-sad-pathology-of-the-GOP-frontrunners?detail=email

As we see the various “outsider” GOP frontrunners like Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina continue to dominate over the far more experienced field of actual legislators and governors, It’s hard not to notice a pattern of grandiose behavior that seems to be common among many conservatives. But it seems even more pronounced among those particular candidates. 

Let’s consider, for a moment, just how well the behavior of Trump, Carson, and Fiorina resembles this description of narcissistic personality disorder from the Mayo Clinic:

If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.

At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection [emphasis added]

Scientists have begun to find that there really is more than just difference of opinion between liberals and conservatives: There actually are physiological and psychological differences between them. That’s the conclusion of a study published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences:

A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That's a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).

The occasion of this revelation is a paper by John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments. (The paper can be read for free here.) In the process, 

Hibbing et al. marshal a large body of evidence, including their own experiments using eye trackers and other devices to measure the involuntary responses of political partisans to different types of images. One finding? That conservatives respond much more rapidly to threatening and aversive stimuli (for instance, images of "a very large spider on the face of a frightened person, a dazed individual with a bloody face, and an open wound with maggots in it," as one of their papers put it).

In other words, the conservative ideology, and especially one of its major facets—centered on a strong military, tough law enforcement, resistance to immigration, widespread availability of guns—would seem well tailored for an underlying, threat-oriented biology.

This basic threat-based biology issue goes a long way toward explaining GOP hopefuls who bang on the warning bells of danger incessantly. There’s mass immigrant invasion a la Trump, Planned Parenthood’s “fetus on the table with its heart beating, legs kicking, about to have it’s brain harvested” a la Fiorina, and Carson’s continued litany of biographical gaffes while he argues the evils of dreaded liberals and the biased media.

Another factor which seems common to people like Carson, Fiorina, and Trump seems to be the complete inability to correct a mistakes or false impressions when challenged with more up-to-date information. That seems to closely resemble confirmation bias.

A confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias that involves favoring information that confirms previously existing beliefs or biases. For example, imagine that a person holds a belief that left-handed people are more creative than right-handed people. Whenever this person encounters a person that is both left-handed and creative, they place greater importance on this "evidence" supporting their already existing belief. This individual might even seek out "proof" that further backs up this belief, while discounting examples that do not support this idea.

Confirmation biases impact how people gather information, but they also influence how people interpret and recall information.

For example, people who support or oppose a particular issue will not only seek information that supports their beliefs, they will also interpret news stories in a way that upholds their existing ideas and remember things in a way that also reinforces these attitudes.

i find this interesting and it does seem to mirror the personalities and action and reactions by the different sides.  i am biased to liberal ideology and find republican ideals disturbingly egregious but i'm sure you all know that. +o).  problem like the article points out they will not except or given a second thought to the findings but it will be in their heads God Bless the sub conscious.  until they accept the reality they will be in constant turmoil not good for potential leaders to enter that room with baggage weighing them down and more cooks then recipes in the kitchen.

also keep in mind they deny science but just the science that doesn't promote their agenda for people who say they are not scientist or Popes they sure try to force a lot of their opinions on others while rejecting others  adhering to one philosophy makes you half cocked with low information

Panic in the GOP elite! Is this a job for Mitt?!?!?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449492/-Panic-in-the-GOP-elite-Is-this-a-job-for-Mitt?detail=email

is he flashing gang signs????????????????????????????????/s

The fact that Donald Trump and Ben Carson are still around and are still sucking the oxygen out of the primary race is causing real panic among Republican elites. All their hopes that either of the two would self-destruct are not materializing, because no matter what these guys say, people seem to like it, and that makes it very difficult for another candidate to try to destroy them. What's more, there's not a lot of time to do something about it.

"The rest of the field is still wishing upon a star that Trump and Carson are going to ­self-destruct," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a former adviser to 2012 nominee Mitt Romney. But, he said, "they have to be made to self-destruct. . . . Nothing has happened at this point to dislodge Trump or Carson."

Fehrnstrom pointed out that the fourth debate passed this week without any candidate landing a blow against Trump or Carson. "We're about to step into the holiday time accelerator," he said. "You have Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, then Iowa and a week later, New Hampshire, and it's going to be over in the blink of an eye."

All of this is "leaving establishment figures disoriented," not knowing where to put all the money they have set aside to bestow upon an adequate puppet. Desperate times call for desperate measures: Mitt Romney to the rescue!

According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney—despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

yeah really desperate he is a loser  and a liar perfect fit for them and he is the one that prompted the Norquist criteria for republican presidents.  and  i thought they were saying they have the best group of qualified wannabees this time around just another republican lie especially if their fall back is Romney.  what happened to "we need a fresh face" do you really want this much disarray in the WH  well if they get in quadruple that disarray.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/13/1064417/-Grover-Norquist-on-the-GOP-candidates-All-we-need-is-someone-who-can-handle-a-pen

http://www.winningprogressive.org/grover-norquist-romney-will-do-as-hes-told

Politico: Bush administration ignored far more detailed warnings about 9/11 than previously revealed

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449558/-Politico-Bush-administration-ignored-far-more-detailed-warnings-about-9-11-that-previously-revealed?detail=email

Chris Whipple has written a story at Politico offering a long teaser of the upcoming Showtime documentary The Spymasters. He and two colleagues spent more than a hundred hours interviewing the 12 living CIA directors, with considerable focus on the 9/11 attacks. Although the overall picture of failure by the administration to prevent the attacks has long been known, 

the story and documentary provide some added details. The key detail is that the warnings the Bush White House received from the CIA in the summer of 2001 were a lot more chilling than the infamous August 6 presidential daily brief. Writes Whipple:

[George] Tenet vividly recalls the [July 10] White House meeting with Rice and her team. (George W. Bush was on a trip to Boston.) “Rich [Blee] started by saying, ‘There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda's intention is the destruction of the United States.’" [Condi said:] ‘What do you think we need to do?’ Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, ‘We need to go on a wartime footing now!’”

But, as Marcy Wheeler says at her emptywheel blog, these dozen CIA men constitute a collection of paid liars. Figuring out how much of what they say is true and how much of it is half-true and how much is totally fabricated is not easy. Not to mention, Wheeler says, the “myths and score-settling” that emerges in such interviews. This doesn’t however, make what they say uninteresting. Writes Whipple:

What’s the CIA’s mission? Is it a spy agency? Or a secret army? “Sometimes I think we get ourselves into a frenzy—into believing that killing is the only answer to a problem,” says [George] Tenet. “And the truth is, it’s not. That’s not what our reason for existence is.” When [David] Petraeus became CIA director, his predecessor, [Michael] Hayden took him aside. 

Never before, Hayden warned him, had the agency become so focused on covert military operations at the expense of intelligence gathering. “An awful lot of what we now call analysis in the American intelligence community is really targeting,” Hayden says. “Frankly, that has been at the expense of the broader, more global view. 

We’re safer because of it, but it has not been cost-free. Some of the things we do to keep us safe for the close fight—for instance, targeted killings—can make it more difficult to resolve the deep fight, the ideological fight. We feed the jihadi recruitment video that these Americans are heartless killers.”

please read the rest of the article keep in mind this is under republican control my question is why has it taken so long for truths to stop drip dropping and give the people the real 411 republicans like to say the people have a right to know is that a double standard they need to know the manufactured truths by them against this admin. but not the self created truths of their skulduggery bottom line we were and still are being lied to by republicans.

you might also want to think about if these are their "VALUES" now known as "PRINCIPLES"  why are they in direct opposition with the stated American "VALUES" and the Geneva Convention something we don't hear very much about in recent conflicts. i feel most of our problems in the middle east are do to republican aggression's and incessant need to be the big dog,  

we need cooperation not fear fear tactics are terrorism to beef up even more or military as Trump put it "so nobody will mess with us" is nothing more than a fear factor creating more dissent of America by other countries after all when you have the biggest gun and you're republican you cannot resist flexing that muscle. recognize

http://www.cfr.org/human-rights/geneva-conventions/p8778

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014953532

Interim University of Missouri president comes out swinging

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449595/-Interim-University-of-Missouri-president-comes-out-swinging?detail=email

After a week of protests for racial justice, racial tension, and media fallout punctuated by the resignation of the University president and some professors, the University of Missouri has tried to begin turning the corner beginning with the selection of an interim president. Yesterday, the Board of Curators voted to have Michael Middleton, a black civil rights attorney, replace ousted president Tim Wolfe, who resigned Monday. And in his first statement, Middleton came out swinging. Hard. According to the Los Angeles Times:

At a packed news conference to announce his appointment, Michael Middleton, 68, a retired longtime administrator at the university, spoke bluntly about "systemic racism" he saw on campus.

"It crossed my mind that my 30-year career here had been a total failure," he said of watching protests this semester.

Middleton, who said he was not seeking the permanent job of president of the system's four public universities, promised to work with black campus activists to confront issues surrounding racial inequality at the system's flagship campus in Columbia.

"It's so subtle," he said. "I think women understand it. I think people with a sexual orientation [that is not straight] understand it. I think other people of color understand it.... It is just the feeling of not being heard, not being respected, and being placed on the margins of what's happening in the world."

He added: "I sympathize with white people who don't understand. I don't blame white people who don't understand." He said the way forward was to confront the nation's history of racial discrimination — which he has long worked to combat.

i'm reserving an opinion until the tires get kicked and we see whether he can overcome the forces that be that apparently sanctioned this kind of attitude toward students not of their preference.  as far as his sympathy with those who oppose i can see that at the under informed level but at the college level i see it as arrogant racism and bigotry perpetrated from a sense of  privileged  arrogance i also think those he sympathizes with will take umbrage and maybe create more resistance to  any advancing.

Ben Carson says he has better Syria 'sources' than White House or CIA

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449578/-Ben-Carson-says-he-has-better-Syria-sources-than-White-House-or-CIA?detail=email

The White House and a former director of the CIA are quite certain that Dr. Ben Carson's claim of China having a military "presence" in Syria is wrong. The national press, too, can find no evidence for this claim other than Dr. Ben Carson's own say-so, and have politely told him so.

If you're Dr. Ben Carson, then, you have a choice to make. You can say you misspoke, or quietly drop the subject and hope nobody brings it up again. Or you can insist that the sitting administration and the entire intelligence apparatus of the United States are misinformed and only you, the retired brain surgeon with no foreign policy experience or expertise whatsoever, know the full truth.

"I have several sources that I've got material from, I'm surprised my sources are better than theirs," he told reporters after a town hall event.

As are we all, I expect.

Because reporters still remain stubbornly skeptical that Dr. Ben Carson's foreign policy contacts and extensive network of spy satellites have uncovered something that nobody else in the foreign policy world knows, Carson's campaign has assured reporters that they will be releasing evidence for Carson's claims at some point this weekend. Won't that be fun.

and the republican base loves him who does that speak more to him or those who want him to "LEAD??" them to me he just shows himself to be one who comes with built in puppet strings available to whoever calls the right wing agenda remember Norquist,  reporters well that's obvious the more extremely ridiculous and radical he is the more revenue for their media

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/13/1064417/-Grover-Norquist-on-the-GOP-candidates-All-we-need-is-someone-who-can-handle-a-pen

http://www.winningprogressive.org/grover-norquist-romney-will-do-as-hes-told

Donald Trump wonders 'How stupid are the people'

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449478/-Donald-Trump-wonders-How-stupid-are-the-people?detail=email

On Thursday evening, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech launched a 95-minute rant to the faithful in Iowa and it was … something else.

He threw insults at Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina, said Marco Rubio is “weak like a baby,” he promised to “bomb the shit out of” oil fields in Iraq and Syria, and called the media “scum” and “garbage.” But he directed most of his venom at—go figure, his closest rival in the race—Ben Carson. 

Trump said Carson has a "pathological disease" with no cure, comparing it to the incurable mental conditions of child molesters.

"A child molester, there's no cure for that," Trump said. "If you're a child molester, there's no cure. They can't stop you. Pathological? There's no cure."

Trump mocked Carson’s story of trying to stab a friend when he was a teenager, asking the audience if anyone had a knife so he could demonstrate that a belt buckle wouldn’t stop a knife attack, and asked:

"How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?"

Trump expressed skepticism about Carson’s story of finding God:

"He goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours and he comes out and now he's religious," Trump said. "And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break. Give me a break. It doesn't happen that way. It doesn't happen that way… Don't be fools, okay?"

a proposed leader seeking to be the top guy who thinks in this case his subjects are all stupid to me implies his thoughts are he would be the smart one the sharpest knife in the draw if you would but listen to this there is no policy to discussion of the problems facing us just a bundled bashing of everything and everybody.  if he were elected who would work with such a megalomaniac let alone other dignitaries he has called advantage takers and how they have so shrewdly fleeced us.

that attitude dictates he would approach meetings from an adversarial position antagonizing before they take a seat by the rhetoric he is espousing now and he hasn't gotten through the primary yet.  think about it this guy alienates everything and everybody do you really thing he's the best choice to be the face of America????????????????????????

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/07/an-incomplete-list-of-everyone-donald-trump-insulted-in-and-after-the-debate/