Must-see morning clip: To Fox News, corporations are "better people than you" -

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/07/must_see_morning_clip_to_fox_news_corporations_are_better_people_than_you/

The residents of Bull@!$%# Mountain, aka Fox News anchors, are in a full-out frenzy over the recent CBO report about the impact of Obamacare on the economy. According to them, the report says that Americans are going to lose around 2 million full-time jobs.

According to the CBO, however, the report by the CBO says nothing of the sort. “This isn’t employers cutting jobs,” clarified New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell in a meeting with CBO director Douglas Elmendorf. “It’s newly empowered workers choosing to go a different path.”

“So the three main talking points against Obamacare are, according to the CBO, not true,” summarizes Stewart.

But pundits at Fox continue to debate yell that the increased access to healthcare deincentivizes people to work.

“You know, like Social Security incentivizes Americans to not die at their job!” cried an exasperated Stewart.

“And you won’t believe what these lazy poors, who’ve been sitting around biding their time at their two jobs, just waiting for the day they could ride the Uncle Sugar Train to Medicaid Town are going to do with their new found windfall,” he continued, mocking Fox.

What it all comes down to, of course, is that “apparently on Bull@!$%# mountain, corporations aren’t just people. They’re better people than you

i agree, for them to do and say what they are now is the utter audacity of arrogance, there are reports of their being able to take senate and keep the house, remember they only control congress because of their skulduggery of gerrymandering, they lost by over a million votes but are still squatting in our house of reps.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/17/1459991/rslc-gerrymandering-house/

 this can be a repeat of 2010 where they lied about jobs and have not produced one since, but quick to point out Pres.'s "failures" but neglect to mention because of their obstruction and lies.  

we have to vote in midterm if not it will be worse than ever with those who were against gov't but than would be for it "Totalitarianism", remember those words of intent "SEND IT BACK TO THE STATES" " LET THE STATES HAVE CONTROL, THEY KNOW BETTER WHAT THEY NEED",

sounds good but look back since 2010 they got in, voter blocked big time, denied you health care, busted your unions, closed planned parenthood, made it criminal to get an abortion or perform one are you getting my point?

Finally! NYC Mayor Will Boycott St. Patrick's Day Parade to Protest Exclusion of Gay

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/finally-nyc-mayor-will-boycott-st-patricks-day-parade-protest-exclusion-gay-groups

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has hit the ground running with his progressive agenda—in between dealing with multiple snowstorms. This week, he announced he will not participate in the annual St. Patrick's  Day parade protest due to the organizers long standing divide over gay rights, New York Times reported.

De Blasio is set to be the first mayor of New York in 20 years not to participate in the parade down Fifth Avenue after the event banned marchers carrying gay pride banners. The last mayor to boycott the event was David N. Dinkins in 1993 for excluding gay participants, according to International Business Times.

if those in power don't start standing up for what America allegedly stands for than it will as now by half the country stand for anything.  if you listen to only one source than you are half cocked anyone reading this has the potential to look over the wall, if the grass looks greener than their politicians are pissing on their lawns, btw a proven with a binder full of facts, they are blaming Pres. for their dastardly deeds but here's another view not so biased.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/04/1127711/-Who-killed-Washington-Republicans-caught-red-handed#

At a press conference at City Hall, de Blasio confirmed he would not be marching.

"I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city, but I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade,” he said.

De Blasio also boycotted the official parade when he was public advocate.

The LGBT community has praised the mayor for his strong stance against discrimination.  However, liberal activists including public advocate Letitia James urged de Blasio to restrict public workers from marching in the parade while wearing formal city uniforms.

if you need a quick look at the differences of both parties consider this,

the republicans want to ban and boycott the parade for including tax paying Americans, de Basio a Progressive, wants to boycott because it is what America is suppose to stand for "life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and justice for all", look back at republican agenda does it adhere to any of those?

rest assured the right wing ha read this either if they have then they are guilty of violating American rights as guaranteed by the "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" have you noticed the many times they claim Pres. has broken constitutional rights, none by them, but never have you heard a republican refer to te D of I or the bill of rights which they cherry pick and twist to make their interpretation seem legal, is it?  it doesn't count if only applied to some who usurp it.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

Outdoor Channel's Ted Nugent: Obama Is "An Avowed Racist" For Sympathizing With "Gangster" Trayvon Martin's Parents

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/06/outdoor-channels-ted-nugent-obama-is-an-avowed/197960

While representing the Outdoor Channel at a gun show, National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent cited President Obama's expression of sympathy to deceased Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's parents as evidence the president is "an avowed racist."

During an interview with PennLive.com, Nugent said "the best Americans are so heartbroken right now" in part because we have "a president who's an avowed racist who claimed because Trayvon Martin was black, even though he was a gangster and an attacker and a doper, that he could have been his son."

we need not to worry a much about racist water carriers as we do those who embrace that rhetoric, they are the ones armed by republicans and directed by them also, without the gullible looking for something to hate crowd these idiots would be dead and stinking.

In January, Outdoor Channel announced a multi-year deal with Nugent, which includes "making talent appearances on the network's behalf at top consumer and industry trade events." At the time, Outdoor Channel's CEO said, "Ted Nugent symbolizes everything that is right in our industry."

Nugent recentlyrepresented Outdoor Channel at the gun industry's annual trade show, where he compared Jewish film executive Harvey Weinstein to a Nazi because of Weinstein's opposition to the NRA.

Nugent also created controversy and faced accusations of racism for an interview conducted at the trade show where he called President Obama a mongrel -- a term for a dog of indeterminate breed.

Nugent also attacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Great American Outdoor Show, stating that he would rather Sens. Rand Paul or Ted Cruz become president than Clinton, who he called an "evil, nasty, irresponsible, criminal woman." Nugent has a lengthy history of attacking Clinton, having called her a "worthless bitch" and a "toxic @!$%#."

i wish we could depend on voters as fickle as they are, to hear this red meat rant and dismiss him that network and anyone who sponsors them as by sponsoring they are giving a thumbs up to racism.  unfortunately there is a market of haters so my wish may just be that a wish.

note the racist picks for President republican radical bigots they are no longer wearing their apathy on their sleeves it is now tattooed on the foreheads, like the mark of Cain literally.

House Republicans Continue To Falsely Claim President Obama And IRS Committed Crimes

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/06/house-republicans-continue-falsely-claim-president-obama-irs-committed-crimes.html

On Wednesday, our own Sarah Jones detailed how the so-called IRS ‘scandal’ had shown itself to be absolutely nothing. She also stated that Republicans were trying to find a way to sulk away from their over-the-top accusations over the past year. Well, it seems that there are still some members of Congress that are seeing if they can still make some hay from this non-issue.

During a recent subcommittee hearing conducted by the House Ways and Means Committee, Republicans continued to push their false accusations that the President somehow committed crimes against conservative political groups by using the IRS to audit them. For most sane people at this point, the so-called IRS ‘scandal’ is non-existent. It has been pretty much established now that there was no specific targeting of Tea Party groups by the Obama Administration for political payback.

Instead, there was a large influx of conservative political groups applying for tax-exempt status in the wake of President Obama’s first election victory. Therefore, employees at the IRS placed a number of these political groups, many of whom were associated with the Tea Party, on BOLO (Be On the Look Out) lists and requested further information before approving their tax-exempt statuses. Essentially, these groups were obviously political in nature, and in order to get tax-exempt status, they needed to show that the majority of their actions went towards ‘social welfare’ rather than political activities.

it would be naive to think with the millions flowing through these republican groups that they would not be funneling it to their campaigners, Rove had 300 million need anything else Koch money and other big business want deregulation and a politician in the pocket.

Rove's people were pissed that they lost if they were legit why blame him for Romney lost that little bit of money is nothing compared to the 300 million, who's zoomin' who?

http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/contriblimits.shtml

Senate rejects jobless benefits

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/197676-senate-rejects-unemployment-benefits

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked Democrats’ third attempt to pass an extension of federal unemployment benefits.

The Senate voted 58-40 Thursday on a proposal that would have continued unemployment insurance for three months, just short of the 60 votes needed to end debate.

“I’m beginning to believe there is nothing that will get Republicans to yes,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said. “It’s a ‘no’ vote because they don’t want to extend unemployment insurance.”

“We’re one Republican vote away from restoring benefits to 1.7 million Americans,” Reid said. “There is one Republican vote standing in the way of a lifeline to these 1.7 million people.”

i really have a problem with why, if it's the T-P than it's just arrogance and right wing confusion as to what and who they are suppose to be working for, it it's old school i still think they are deliberately sinking the party in order to rid themselves and us of the scourge of America the destructive T-Party.

Democrats say they plan to use Republican refusal to pass a short-term extension of the benefits as a weapon in the midterm elections.

The White House slammed Senate Republcians and accused them of denying a "vital lifeline" to the unemployed.

"We cannot allow one vote to stand in the way of supporting these Americans as they struggle to find work. Both sides of the aisle have worked together to prevent this kind of hardship in the past, and neglecting to do so now is unacceptable — especially given the high long-term unemployment rate," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.

if i may quote Rev. Al, "lots of things used to be acceptable until we stopped accepting them", America it's time to stop accepting things that only bring America down on our heads because of hateful entity that has permeated every walk of American life and left us suffering in it's wake, Nov. 4th, if you care be there.

Elizabeth Warren: Let's Stop Scamming Our Vets

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/elizabeth-warren-marco-rubio-veterans-scam

This week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced legislation along with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that would protect elderly veterans from financial scams and sketchy financial advisers.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) funds an assisted living program for certain low-income veterans, and for years scammers and faux investment consultants have preyed on elderly vets enrolled in it. Warren and Rubio's bill, introduced Tuesday, would require the VA to crack down on these shady dealers.

"For thousands of our oldest veterans who need help with basic daily activities, the…program is a critical lifeline," Warren said. "Unfortunately, scams are turning the program into something that can actually undermine the financial security of our older veterans and waste federal funds."

Swindlers calling themselves "veteran's advisers" often charge vets fees to help them obtain assisted living benefits, even though the application is free, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). "Investment advisers" also profit off the assisted living program. These advisers will counsel veterans who have too many assets to qualify for the program to stow some of their money in a trust or account that cannot be accessed for years, so that it appears the vets are poor enough to qualify. The result is that vets cannot access their savings, and investment advisers earn a healthy commission for their "advice."

as a Vet i applaud the bill, but i'm sorry Rubio is a republican despite the good idea with this he still votes for taking food stamps from poor families and their kids, he votes to deny you the right to vote,m they won't vote on Pres.'s jobs act, 

they have been deceiving us for 5 years about ACA, they cut social programs but refuse to discuss the rich and their non existent tax payments, woman's rights to decide for their own bodies, he is searching for those who would congratulate him.

 "This bipartisan proposal will help put an end to these financial scams and ensure that we honor our veterans' commitment, sacrifice, and service to the nation," Warren said.

yes but they are still talking about cutting pensions and other payments, there is cllearly a lot that they can do to honor vets that was not mentioned.  22 vets commit suicide a day what are they doing about that?

Conservative Media Attacks ABC News For Telling The Truth About Kids And Gun Accidents

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/05/conservative-media-attacks-abc-news-for-telling/197941

The National Rifle Association's radio show and other conservative media are baselessly attacking an ABC News special that highlighted how gun accidents can occur when children access unsecured firearms.

The ABC News 20/20 special, hosted by Diane Sawyer and titled Young Guns, reported that 1.7 million children live in a home with an unsecured and loaded firearm, 98 children under the age of 18 died in accidental shootings in 2010, and 80 percent of accidental shooting victims are boys. 

The January 31 Young Guns special centered on a psychologist-designed experiment that placed children in an empty classroom that contained an unsecured firearm. According to 20/20 "nearly all" of the 44 children in the experiment had been taught not to touch a gun and half of those children were shown the NRA's "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program to reinforce the lesson. 

But when an unloaded firearm was left in the classroom, many of the children still touched and played with it. Some even pointed the weapons at themselves or other children and pulled the trigger. The NRA declined repeated requests by ABC to participate in an interview for the special.

As pediatric psychologist Marjorie Sanfilippo noted in the special, "These three-year-olds who shoot themselves in the head, for whatever reason it's the natural thing to look down the barrel," and added, "You can't educate curiosity out of a child." 

Indeed, 20/20's experiment reached similar conclusions to a 2001 experiment published in the medical journal Pediatrics that found 63 percent of 8- to 12-year old boys who found a gun touched it and 33 percent pulled the trigger, even though 90 percent had received gun safety training.

Conservative media offered a nonsensical criticism of the special, which they termed "anti-gun," "a classic case of a news outlet making the news instead of reporting it," "ridiculous propaganda piece about kids with guns," and "the sort of sensational journalism that is not really journalism."

On the January 3 edition of NRA News show Cam & Company, host Cam Edwards sarcastically askedguest and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich, "Do you know any parents who are gun owners who store their firearms in their kid's toy box?" Pavlich, who called the Young Guns experiment "totally asinine and ridiculous," asked, 

"So are we going to start putting our rat poison next to our kid's candy boxes?" In a rebuttal to the special, The Blaze host Dana Loesch argued, "ABC producers irresponsibly conclude that we have an epidemic of accidental shootings involving children because these producers placed guns around play areas and children looked at them."

they defend the presence of guns in the home but do not mention the 194+ kids killed by guns since Newton massacre, 

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/children-killed-guns-newtown-anniversary

that shows you where their concern is defending the gun not your children, those members with kids where's the noise?  rat poison that is ridiculous and an asinine non comparison.

 nothing has changed for NRA or republicans guns mean more than those lives taken that they defended so rabidly when they were in te womb, 2 faced?

As Young Guns demonstrated in a segment following the experiment, young children often know where firearms are stored in the home and can gain access to them, often to the surprise of the children's parents.

The special also featured a woman who openly stored her loaded firearm on the kitchen table in reach of her young daughter and the tragic story of a toddler who fatally shot himself with a firearm stored on top of a five foot dresser in his parent's bedroom. The child's parents still do not know how he managed to access the gun.

Reality also undermines this attack on Young Guns. A December 2013 report by Mother Jones found that at least 84 children aged 12 or younger died after accessing unsecured firearms in the year following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school in December 2012.

According to a September 2013investigation by The New York Times, a "review of hundreds of child firearm deaths found that accidental shootings occurred roughly twice as often as the records indicate, because of idiosyncrasies in how such deaths are classified by the authorities." A recent study in Pediatrics counted 2,149 hospitalizations of children for accidental shootings in a single year.

i would say to NRA and enthusiast as sad and needless as these deaths are, at least you still have your guns, but do you have children, do they know where it is, can they get to it, and last but not least do you guys have a quota before you act responsible?

Fox Freaks Out Over CVS Ending Sales Of Tobacco

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/05/fox-freaks-out-over-cvs-ending-sales-of-tobacco/197947

how about a taste of their own crap,

Fox news is promoting cancer wants you to smoke till you die./sarc

Fox News responded to the announcement that CVS would no longer sell cigarettes by criticizing the pharmacy chain and leveling attacks at President Obama after he expressed support for the company's decision.

On February 5, CVS Caremark announced that it would stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its pharmacy stores by the beginning of October. 

The move was met with praise from health organizations like the American Cancer Society and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropy dedicated to public health. 

President Obama also weighed in on the decision with a statement of support, saying it was a "profoundly positive" move and will help advance efforts "to reduce tobacco-related deaths, cancer, and heart disease, as well as bring down health care costs."

As if on cue, Fox News responded to Obama's praise by manufacturing a controversy over the CVS decision.

On Fox's The Real Story, host Gretchen Carlson approached the CVS decision with suspicion and a remarkably uninformed premise, asking, "Is it OK legally ... to restrict tobacco availability in a private store like this?" 

She questioned her guests as to whether they would continue shopping at CVS and observed that, "For people who smoke, you know, they have a right to buy cigarettes. It's not illegal."

you know they had to get their daily jab at Pres. in there, now they are telling CVS and others "is it legal" then in the next breath without confirmation "it's not legal", this is your Fox news on something or maybe i'm wrong and they are just crazy and finding it harder to use hyperbole in their stories they are already maxed out fakes getting ahead of themselves?

On Your World, Fox host and VP Neil Cavuto noted that President Obama supported CVS' decision, and speculated that CVS was "getting scaredy cat" because "with the health care law and the changes and everything else," selling tobacco products "didn't look good." In the same segment, Fox Business host Melissa Francis expressed concern that snack foods and alcohol could be cut from CVS shelves next.

And on Fox's The Five, co-host Dana Perino tried to use the decision to attack President Obama's signature health care law, saying, "I just wonder, is this President Obama now saying that corporations are allowed to have values and express them? Because if that's the case, maybe corporations then don't have to provide contraceptive care to their employees or their health plans. And the Supreme Court justices might want to think about that."

can you get your head around the lack of common sense that permeates those studios, no wonder they are so effective with their base they are even more challenged then they, could it be they actually believe the words that are coming out of their mouths, i mean off the teleprompter?

ignorance is bliss and they are some blissful SOB's, btw aren't they in a perpetual state of freak out since Nov. 2008?