NBC/WSJ Poll Reveals American's Priorities; Guess How they Match With GOP Lawmakers' Priorities

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346195/-NBC-WSJ-Poll-Reveals-American-s-Priorities-Guess-How-they-Match-With-GOP-Lawmakers-Priorities?detail=email#

The new NBC/WSJ poll conducted November 14-17 provides a post election snap shot of American voter expectations, including their priorities for actions Congress should take. Can you guess how they match up with GOP Lawmaker's priorities? It's a real shocker folks.

The People's agenda for Congress:

1.   Access to lower cost student loans--80% support.

2.   Increase spending on infrastructure--75%

3.   Raising the minimum wage--65%

4.   Emergency funding for fighting Ebola in Africa--60%

5.   Addressing climate change/reducing carbon emissions--59%

6.   Building Keystone Pipeline--54%

Agenda items registering below 50% support were: lowering taxes by closing loopholes; approving U.S. troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria; reducing Medicare and Social Security benefits for wealthy retirees; new trade agreements with Asian nations; lowering corporate tax rates; cutting funding for ACA; path to citizenship; and raising Social Security retirement age.

I thought it would be insightful to compare America's priorities with those of our newly elected Congress. According to PolitiFact.com

it would appear this poll shows the people more in line with the Pres. and what he's been trying to do the last 6 years of republican obstruction with the exception of the dirty oil pipeline those 54% must be the rich and their families.

House Speaker John Boehner and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have laid out some of their top legislative priorities. It’s a range of issues -- everything from dismantling the Affordable Care Act to passing international trade agreements, and shutting down the possibility of another government shutdown.

Here is PolitiFact's list in the order presented:

1.   Authorize Keystone Pipeline.

2.   Repeal ACA ("Obamacare")

3.   Pass the "Hire More Heroes" (veterans) Act.

4.   Pass Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Asia.

5.   Lower corporate taxes.

6.   Thwarting Obama on Immigration Executive Action.

7.   Reign in the EPA and roll back environmental regulations.

In a Wall Street Journal op ed published the day after the election, Boehner and McConnell outline some of their legislative priorities.

Other than that, these Republican leaders address none of the issues Americans have said are the most important; nothing about student loans or the cost of college; nothing about infrastructure, bridges and roads; nothing about the minimum wage; after all their hysteria before the election, nothing about money to fight the Ebola outbreak; and instead of addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions they of course want to do just the opposite.

How is that for honoring the voters' trust? It is clear the GOP doesn't trust voters at all, because they will do everything in their power to lower voter enthusiasm and participation, and therefore have no intention of honoring voters' trust by addressing the issues that matter most. The GOP agenda is the Koch Brothers' agenda. It is Sheldon Adelson's, the Walton's and the oil companies' agenda.

there has never been nor will there ever be any consideration for what "we the people" want they tell us what we want and need you've heard the lead ins "the American people want...."  "the American people don't want" "the American people need...", but this comparison of agenda's show where their interest lie and it is not with "we the people"  i really hope these revelations are getting through to all those who oppose as well as those who thoughtit was making a statement by staying home, well it did but wasit the one you were trying to make?

Republicans' motives for their frivolous suit against Obama become clear

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/21/1346546/-Republicans-motives-for-their-frivolous-suit-against-Obama-become-clear?detail=email

So the point of the lawsuit against President Obama is becoming a little more clear. Remember, the suit isn't asking for any relief, an injunction on the law, a change in the law, or anything. They're just suing because it's something to do. And this:

attribution: Twtter screenshot

A few years ago, that would be a mailer from an extreme right-wing group. And now ... it is. It's all a big ruse to get email addresses—and probably money—from as many Obama-hating rubes as they can.

so if this is true they have been lying again about Pres. "overstepping his bounds" and they really want more recruits to carry their tainted water making it appear that the majority is with them which it isn't but ignoring your will is their latest accusation against Pres. but it's what they have been doing the last 6 years, they have not been harmed there is no overstepping any farther then those Presidents before him, exception they were White and mostly republican, Reagan, Bush and so on.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/two-republican-presidents-used-executive

how much longer are we going to allow them blank checks of opposition and frivolous witch hunts?

UPDATE: 39 issued exec orders over 11 presidents dating back to Eisenhower, on immigration reform..

http://www.cleveland.com/darcy/index.ssf/2014/11/obama_executive_actions_are_no.html

Cartoon: Sustainable Keystone XL

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/21/1346094/-Cartoon-Sustainable-Keystone-XL?detail=email

Who says Keystone XL isn’t a sustainable, renewable project? Just ask Tar Sands Timmy . . . and Senator (for now) Mary Landrieu. Now that “jobs” claims have been debunked and US domestic oil production is booming, the Keystone XL pipeline project has morphed into primarily a political symbol.

Surely the new Republican Congress will pass a gung-ho Keystone XL bill, then it will be up to Obama to kill this ridiculous project. Let’s hope the president sees this pipeline for the climate-changing, forest-killing, jobs fantasy that it is. Unfortunately, it looks like the decimation of Alberta’s boreal forests is continuing, regardless of Keystone XL. Why should we make things even easier for these extractive multinational corporations?

Don’t be fooled by the jobs and energy independence arguments, both are completely bogus. And even if the pipeline was going to provide jobs and bring us closer to energy independence, it still wouldn’t be worth the cost to the environment and to, um, humans. Don’t fall for Tar Sands Timmy’s sales job, and be sure to check out the links, comment and share!

this is a big oil money driven project you have been misled you will not see this dirty oil the money is overseas they won't give that up so you can fill up on Sat. night.  big money again wants to put you in their jackpot to get even more oil rich.

John Boehner vows that Congress will stop Obama ... as soon as they get back from vacation

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/21/1346442/-John-Boehner-vows-that-Congress-will-stop-Obama-as-soon-as-they-get-back-from-vacation?detail=email



and now for your tax dollar this is what you get

At a Friday morning press conference, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner denounced President Obama's executive orders on immigration and vowed to do ... something. Said Boehner:

We will not stand idle as the president undermines the rule of law in our country and places lives at risk ... we’ll work to protect the Constitution of the United States.”

And then, with the rule of law, lives and the Constitution all at risk, Republicans headed out of town for their extended Thanksgiving vacation.

but they are so good at standing idly by they get an A+ for doing it the last 6 years Mr. Beohner don't try to fix what's not broken, and as far as the constitution just another case of them doing it and blaming Pres., Pres. does not support voter suppression they do, he supports "we the people" they don't, they are waging a war on women and te poor, Pres. is leading the army of support for woman and poor, they don't want you to have affordable care and quality treatment they want to overflow the ER's, Pres. passed this they are trying to take it away.

heading off for thanksgiving after systematically denying needy Americans a food stamp and a job,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/how-many-days-has-congress-actually-worked-in-2014

Fox News' Megyn Kelly admits that the right uses 'amnesty' to 'sort of get people upset'

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/21/1346431/-Fox-News-Megyn-Kelly-admits-that-the-right-uses-amnesty-to-sort-of-get-people-upset?detail=email

While many congressional Republicans seem not to know what they mean when they say "amnesty" in relation to immigration policy, two rather different sources offered succinct explanations of the fuss over it in recent days. According to President Obama:

I know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. Well, it’s not. Amnesty is the immigration system we have today—millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time.

Fox News' Megyn Kelly kind of agreed:

On the November 19 edition of The Kelly File, Kelly acknowledged that the president is not actually pursuing "amnesty," because "amnesty is citizenship and that's not what [Obama] is talking about." Kelly also explained how conservatives purposely misuse the word "amnesty" for political gain: "That's a hot-button term that the right uses to sort of get people upset."

(sounds of people falling over furniture), running through the halls of Fox we have seen her try to hang with the big misleading misinformation guys like Hannity and O'Reilly and pretty much got exposed and called out on 98% of her stories that said is she having some kind of conscious flashback? she had to know those stories she did trying to get Black people to turn on each other and failed miserably, if I might quote Rick Perry, "OOP'S".

Nevada Republican tapped for speaker's chair issues blanket apology for everything he ever said

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/21/1346512/-Nevada-Republican-tapped-for-Speaker-s-chair-issues-blanket-apology-for-everything-he-ever-said?detail=email#

Nevada Assemblyman Ira Hansen, who Republicans have chosen to be their new speaker, is very sorry for that very long and detailed history of every single thing he ever said.

If Republicans still allow him to be their speaker, he promises his door will be open to all. Even Nevada's "Negros," who no doubt understand the Confederate flag is just there to remind them of their "lack of gratitude" to white folks. And Hispanic Nevadans, even though it seems like all the "criminal activity" you read about in his state is "dominated" by them. And even LGBT Nevadans, who "fill their ranks" with "child molesters, called 'pederasts,'" are free to schedule appointments with his staff. You're all welcome to come share your thoughts with him, just don't mess with his career opportunities or bring up any of those things he said

"I am deeply sorry that comments I have made in the past have offended many Nevadans. It is unfortunate that these comments, made almost 20 years ago as a newspaper columnist and talk radio host, have been taken out of context and are being portrayed as intentionally hurtful and disrespectful.

this guy is the perfect pick to be Nevada speaker for republicans, they knew his past record and statements and still tapped him, because he reflects their "PRINCIPLES" formerly known as "VALUES".  prime red meat tosser full of racial epithets they will love this guy.  they seem to get more and more emboldened since being handed the election they think they won well they did by stay at home default and gerrymandering and voter suppression all the things that fit like a glove the right wing hate rhetoric this guy has a record for.

How the hell can comments made over an entire columnist and talk show career be taken "out of context"? What additional "context" could possibly be provided? Pictures you drew in the third grade? An explanation of plate tectonics? When you boast about having a confederate flag pinned to the wall of your office, what "context" are we missing there?

These comments were meant to be purposely provocative in various political, cultural and religious views. I have the utmost respect for all people without regard to race, gender, religious or political beliefs.

Nothing says respect for race, gender, religious or political beliefs like hanging a confederate flag behind your chair while writing that you did so "in honor and in memory of a great cause." It's the universal symbol of racial respect.

"I am committed to showing that actions are much louder than words and my office will always have an open door to all backgrounds and political viewpoints. This will not distract us from finding solutions to building a brighter and more prosperous Nevada."

if Nevada let's them get away with this without some serious kick back this same picture will unfold   throughout the nation as it is now in those red states.  I think this will be our next two years of political discontent and if we continue to be stricken with the indifference that brought us here it will be the next 4 to 8 years of our life discontent. RECOGNIZE!  I really thought we had shed that indifference monster on our backs in 2008 and definitely in 2012, then we fell back into that old habit and turned our backs on the best thing since Lincoln and Johnson.  we really don't deserve this Pres.

GOP Intel Report Debunks Its Own Party's Nutty Benghazi Theories

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republican-benghazi-investigation-debunks-conspiracy-theories-clears-obama-Hillary

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.

Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found. That led Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to inaccurately assert that the attack had evolved from a protest, when in fact there had been no protest. But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found. The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.

The House Intelligence Committee report was released with little fanfare on the Friday before Thanksgiving week. Many of its findings echo those of six previous investigations by various congressional committees and a State Department panel. The eighth Benghazi investigation is being carried out by a House Select Committee appointed in May.

The attacks in Benghazi killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and two CIA contractors, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. A Libyan extremist, Ahmed Abu Khatalla, is facing trial on murder charges after he was captured in Libya and taken to the U.S.

In the aftermath of the attacks, Republicans criticized the Obama administration and its then-secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in 2016. People in and out of government have alleged that a CIA response team was ordered to "stand down" after the State Department compound came under attack, that a military rescue was nixed, that officials intentionally downplayed the role of al-Qaida figures in the attack, and that Stevens and the CIA were involved in a secret operation to spirit weapons out of Libya and into the hands of Syrian rebels. None of that is true, according to the House Intelligence Committee report.

 

will republicans apologize to this admin and "we the people" for allowing their grand inquisitor Issa to pursue this folly for two years and millions of taxpayer dollars and misleading us with Issa's gut contrivance?  with all they have done to the country and you why are they now in place to do even more mayhem, where is the anger of being used to accomplish their deceitful taking over to do even more harm and deprive us of even more things, you do realize if you give them the keys to the WH 2016 all the accomplishment till then will be immediately revoked.  so if you like what Pres. has done for us don't waste your 2016 vote on a pig with no makeup, because they won't dress up the damage they will just inflict it.

 

this is the harm they cause when they spot that grain of sand they are intent on spinning into a scandal they jump the gun and proceed half cocked and promote the lies with impunity 8 times 47 more and they would have tied the repeal of ObamaCares law which they are about to up that number unless "we the people" stop them because the right wing and the party won't they will ride the rebuked scandal into 2016,  they know enough will continue to believe them and create an atmosphere of distrust of Dems unless Dems get up and fight the power.

Kansas secretary of state warns of 'ethnic cleansing' if Hispanics become the majority

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346269/-Kansas-secretary-of-state-warns-of-ethnic-cleansing-if-Hispanics-become-the-majority?detail=email

How in the hell did the voters of Kansas re-elect this guy?

Right Wing Watch has the audio of Kansas' Kris Kobach–the worst secretary of state in the nation—warning that if Hispanics become the majority, they might begin killing whites:

Claiming that immigrant rights groups are “calling for the return of the Spanish territory, which could be almost half of the United States,” the caller warned, “When one race or culture overwhelms another culture, they run them out or they kill them. And it’s a bigger issue than just being Democrats. And they know in numbers, once the numbers are so bad, they can pretty much do whatever they want to do.”  

“What protects us in America from any kind of ethnic cleansing is the rule of law, of course,” Kobach responded. “And the rule of law used to be unassailable, used to be taken for granted in America. And now, of course, we have a president who disregards the law when it suits his interests. So, while I normally would answer that by saying, ‘Steve, of course we have the rule of law, that could never happen in America,’ I wonder what could happen. I still don’t think it’s going to happen in America, but I have to admit, things are strange and they are happening.”

And that's not all:

Earlier in the program, Kobach used a more subtle form of racial dog-whistle by accusing Democrats of “replacing American voters” with "socialist" Hispanic voters. While reading polls about political attitudes broken out by race, Kobach said that “if you look at it through an ethnic lense,” Democrats want to create a “a locked-in vote for socialism” by “replacing American voters with newly legalized aliens.”

right wing scare tactics decades old and yet their base bites like this was the first time they heard it nothing like scaring an under informed looking for a leader to tell them who to hate and their reason why, leading a group in a direction they are predisposed to going is not rocket science it's just as
G W Bush said, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on". 

as I said in an earlier post today bottom line they don't want Hispanics in a position where they can vote there have been key words indicating that like the 13 year wait for citizenship, I like this pay back taxes even Pres. says this but by virtue of the status of undocumented no soc. sec. card how do the compute back taxes?  back of the line when those undocumented  are 11 million plus long line rivals republican voter suppression lines.  point is they want them here like they want ISIS remember they claimed the immigrants would bring Ebola and ISIS across the border with them.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/10/12/GOP-Campaign-Tactic-Fear-Mongering-Over-Ebola-and-ISIS

Reviews are coming in: Republican Governors Livid About Immigration Speech

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346363/-Reviews-are-coming-in-Republicans-Governors-Livid-About-Immigration-Speech?detail=email

Most Congressional Republicans were not in Washington DC to react to the President's speech as they had flown back home for a much-needed break from doing nothing, in order to spend quality time with family and donors.

But the Republican Governors Association, holding their conference in Boca Raton, Florida have been reacting angrily to the speech since yesterday.

Attendees at the RGA were not just seeing red, at least one member reportedly turned red about the speech--even before the President gave it:

[Former Mississippi Gov. Haley] Barbour grew red in the face as he explained his frustration with the media’s focus on immigration. Most of the questions at two separate press conferences, in addition to the panel moderated by [Chuck] Todd, were about Obama’s coming executive order.[...]  

“To take up all the time talking about that is taking your eye off why we’re here. That’s what y’all want to talk about,” Barbour said to reporters assembled around him. “If y’all want to talk about it, go somewhere else.”
Most of the governors’ energy was focused on denouncing the president for raining on their parade and spoiling their thunder. There was not much talk about how to deal with the reality that, even if states are the place where policy experiments are best conducted, the modern presidency still holds enormous power to control the national conversation.

we heard talk from both sides of a willingness to work together the only difference is the republicans are the only one engaging in name calling and threats, and references to well poisoning and killing any chance of future collaboration that all came from the republican side, Pres. calmly said if you don't like what he did do you job "PASS A BILL", now I haven't heard a response to that have you?

Video: Police lied. Mike Brown was killed 148 feet away from Darren Wilson's SUV

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346374/-BREAKING-VIDEO-Police-Lied-Mike-Brown-was-killed-148-feet-away-from-Darren-Wilson-s-SUV?detail=email

For 104 days, the police have lied and said Mike Brown was killed 35 feet away from Darren Wilson's SUV. It was actually 148 feet.

This distance is essential to the defense and how Darren Wilson must demonstrate that he "reasonably feared for his safety." At the point in which Mike Brown ran half a football field away, how reasonable is it for an armed officer to fear anyone?

On the afternoon of August 9, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Mike Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri. Below is the first video filmed from Canfield Drive, where the shooting occurred, showing the exact measurement between where Darren Wilson's SUV was parked and Mike Brown died. After that, we methodically debunk the lie that Mike Brown was killed in close proximity to Darren Wilson's SUV.

Our starting point, which is 17 feet behind the driver's side window of Darren Wilson's SUV, is this yellow fire hydrant next to the storm drain.

why is this info just being put out now, was the grand jury privy to it how can a fair assessment come out even in a non prejudicial atmosphere if crucial evidence is deliberately withheld?  if this evidence was not forth coming then that is all the more reason the feds should take over, either that is the dumbest grand jury in history or they are trying to justify the lies to make their ruling appear rational how man months has it been 4 months and two more available they have until Jan. 7  something's rotten in Ferguson.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/09/ferguson_grand_jury_given_until_january_to_decide_whether_to_charge_officer.html

much more info in article it shows deliberate obstruction or incompetence un rivaled

Michele Bachmann warns of 'illiterate foreign nationals' voting in 2016

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346183/-Michele-Bachmann-warns-of-illiterate-foreign-nationals-voting-in-2016?detail=email

Rep. Michele Bachmann is going a little off the Republican Party's desired message on President Obama's planned action on immigration. The official Republican message is that their anger is about executive overreach, not about scary brown people. Bachmann, though, is definitely focused on the scary brown people:

“The social cost will be profound on the U.S. taxpayer — millions of unskilled, illiterate, foreign nationals coming into the United States who can’t speak the English language,” Bachmann told reporters at the Capitol. “Even though the president says they won’t be able to vote, we all know that many, in all likelihood, will vote.” Bachmann added: “The president has a very single-minded vision. He’s looking at new voters for 2016.... People do vote without being a citizen. It’s a wink and a nod, we all know it’s going to happen."

This is so wrong on so many levels. Set aside the overt racism, it's completely wrong about what Obama is doing. The plan is to allow people who have already been in the United States for years to avoid deportation, not about new arrivals in the country, and as Bachmann admits she knows, non-citizens are not allowed to vote.

But we really shouldn't set aside the overt racism. After all, the entire point here is to scare voters into being afraid of illiterate brown people dragging down the economy and taking over the government. That's pretty damn racist! However, Bachmann was prepared to explain that she had excellent sources for her claims:

"... I spent four days at the border and spoke to American Hispanics on the border. That’s what they told me. Those are not Michele Bachmann’s words, those words came from Hispanics who live on the border…. I’m not using a pejorative term against people who are non-American citizens. I’m only repeating what I heard from Hispanic Americans down at the border. That’s what they told me."

why is it every time a racial issue is on the table some bigoted republican whack a mole pops up and claims to have spoken to one of those in question and even though they are the target of republican racial angst  and are subject to all the anti them generated by republicans they are going to tell them that they are of the same mind?  they always have some nondescript unavailable for conformation person who just wandered up to them and ask the questions that are the republican talking point de jour, they offer this as corroboration of their having a finger on the pulse of America and that gives them the right to say things like, "the American people want..." when it makes no difference that they are wrong they aren't hearing the people they are hearing the one who gives them their talking point and marching orders.

Oops! GOP's plan for shutting down Obama's immigration action is 'impossible'

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346184/-Oops-GOP-s-plan-for-shutting-down-Obama-s-immigration-action-is-impossible?detail=email

GOP leaders say they're going to block President Obama's executive action on immigration not through impeachment or a government shutdown, but by very specifically defunding the agencies that would carry out Obama's executive order. There's just one small problem. It turns out Congress can't do that. According to a House Appropriations Committee spokeswoman, it would be "impossible," because Citizenship and Immigration Services is funded through fees, not congressional appropriations:

“We cannot, literally cannot, defund that agency in an appropriations bill because we don’t appropriate that agency. That agency is entirely fee funded,” Hing said.

Bahahahahaha. Even better:

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who wants to defund the order, said he didn’t buy the news.

Republicans were really all-in on this idea that they could defund the order without shutting down the government. And now they've got like a day to figure out their next super-sneaky maneuver to ensure that Obama can't slow deportations. Or they can just keep insisting they can do the thing that's "impossible." Denying reality is a favored Republican strategy, after all.

this is almost comical if it were not so serious they call Pres. lawless he can't do this without us, he's an emperor, king, monarch, with all the panty bunching they've been doing about this immigration issue they lied about saying they were all for it before they were rebutting it now how many times?  started with Cruz being their path to Hispanic living rooms that that went sour all culminating in it's not their job they don't hold that purse string.

there is a bigger point here no one has mentioned that is republicans do not want immigration they do not want Hispanics here for anything other then cheap labor tax free.  their real issue they will probably vote with Dems if they were ever allowed as long as there is republican control over any branch of legislation ain't gonna happen no path to citizenship.

the fact that they are in such rabid opposition threatening the President, warning of civil assaults, threatening to undo services that would be incremental in it's success, bottom line THEY DON'T WANT TO FATTEN POTENTIAL OPPOSITION VOTERS, AND THE HATE THEM.  the cracks like kids with calves size of melons from hauling drugs across the desert, they will bring Ebola with them, they will take your job, they will use health care that they are trying to take from Americans the hate and bigotry has fogged up their windows more than usual they really can't see the anti immigration is killing their 2016 hopes they need Hispanics but what they are doing and saying now you would think they just don't want to breathe the same air, they don't want them to be anymore than they have stereotyped them to be and that is not American.

White Students At St. Louis Area High School Wear Blackface During Football Game

http://sports.politicususa.com/2014/11/19/white-students-at-st-louis-area-high-school-wear-blackface-during-football-game.html

Roughly 60 miles from Ferguson, Missouri, where racial tensions have been high in the wake of black teenager Michael Brown’s death, a dozen high school seniors, all white females, decided to wear blackface during a Powder-Puff football game earlier this month. The incident initially flew under the radar as the game was played on November 5th. While the school posted pictures of the games played that night on the school’s Twitter account, the pictures were intentionally taken from a distance so as not to show the girls up close.

these girls are seniors no way they did not realize the connotation they were making by doing this it has never been anything but racially done to humor other bigoted people and insult Black people.  don't think they realized this also showed ow Whites have stolen from Black people Jolson on stage mimicking and those two White guys who played Amos and Andy on radio, the record promoters who took music claimed it as theirs and released it with a White group.  also imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so were their ignorant attempt at levity more flattery than racial?   if they were unaware of the social message their act sends the adults in the school sure did but they let it go all bigots are not racist but all racist are bigots. despicable them

in light of what's going on in St. Louis that was a reprehensible thing to do it only fans the flames of an already potential raging fire

Kentucky Fire Chief refuses accident victims: We ain't taking no n*****s here

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1346005/-Kentucky-Fire-Chief-refuses-accident-victims-We-ain-t-taking-no-n-s-here?detail=email

Stories like this make you look at the calendar to check the year. Yep, still 2014. And it is utterly embarrassing and shocking that anyone who holds these racist views are operating in any leadership role. Meet Kentucky's Southeast Bullitt Fire Chief Julius Hatfield. After stopping to help accident victims, one white family and one black family, he was caught on video having a friendly good ol' boy chat:

Video from a Bullitt County Sheriff's deputy's body camera shows Hatfield's department responding to a car accident on I-65, south of the Clermont exit in September. "Well, I've got a family of four from Cincinnati, I got to do something with," the Bullitt County deputy said in the video.
Hatfield replied, "We ain't taking no n------ here." Then he laughs.

And no, that's not all. When questioned by WDRB reporter Valerie Chinn about an investigation into the financial mismanagement (and possible fraud) of Hatfield's district, he went on:

"Do you understand English darling?" Hatfield replied. "Do you understand English?"

The man can't even hide his racism with the glare of television cameras. Of course he's now apologized off-camera, but it's time for the good people of Kentucky to send good ol' boy Chief Hatfield out to pasture.

this is not an isolated incident I know all White people in Ky are not like this because I have a dear White friend there who I cherish.  but this is the sentiment of those who vote for those who promote this intolerance.  I really have begun to look at the condition of this country differently sure republicans are selfish apathetic SOB's but they would not matter if it weren't for their voters of equal reprehensible character continually voting against their own interest in favor of somebody else's hate.  

and no they don't try to hide it they IMO have steadily become more emboldened since the deadbeat dad joe Wilson first hollered "you lie" during the first state of the union address by this Pres., it come easy because it's second nature or first nature in most cases they just let it rip and stall and demand he the duly elected Pres. come bowing and smiling to them whoa I was about to curse.  this is what half the power gets us elect one President 2016 and open the flood gates because here it comes.

McConnell, Boehner struggle to find a way around another government shutdown

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/18/1345751/-McConnell-Boehner-struggle-to-find-a-way-around-another-government-shutdown?detail=email

Fun times ahead.

Welcome to House Speaker John Boehner's hell, Mitch McConnell. Now that you have to actually lead the Senate, with a Republican conference chock-full of extremists with presidential ambitions, you get to figure out how to simultaneously appease your crazies without destroying your party in 2016.

Obama plans to use his executive authority to change the enforcement of immigration laws by the end of the year, a move that top Republicans warn could derail efforts to pass a long-term spending bill by a Dec. 11 deadline. Increasingly, some top Republicans believe that it will be difficult to pass the year-long spending package that they originally envisioned, and are refocusing on a shorter term bill. Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and their top aides and deputies are mulling several options that would give Capitol Hill Republicans the opportunity to vent their frustration with what they view as an unconstitutional power grab by the White House—without jeopardizing the government financing bill.

 In other words, the rabble rousers in the party are itching for another government shutdown, and believe that executive action on immigration gives them their opening. It's not just the Ted Cruzes of the Senate, either. Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III is among the loudest proponents of brinksmanship with Obama over the issue, and there are nearly 60 House Republicans pushing it as well.

Republican leadership wants a long-term funding bill, but will have to try for a shorter-term bill because of the pressure. The lawmakers who most want confrontation with Obama like short-term funding bills—they give more opportunities to try to force these fights and more shutdown threats. Meanwhile, McConnell and Boehner have to actually put up some semblance of governing, now that Republicans are fully in control of Congress. Lurching from crisis to crisis with short-term funding bills isn't governing. McConnell, in fact, promised the day after the election,"[t]here will be no government shutdowns and no default of the national debt."

they lied schemed and finagled their way in to both houses but did they ever stop to consider though we have heard little of the tea people Cruz their boy wonder has been speaking opposite of the traditionalist they denied civil war within their ranks another lie now the Dems really don't have to be them in order for disorder to prevail, the fight will now be between them and them, will they come together or demand THAT THE OTHER COME TO THEM WHILE THE OTHER MAKES THE SAME DEMAND. see what staying home gets you this will not be good viewing must see TV this will be thee turning of the screwer's on each other and who suffers everyone does even the rich can be subject to their own creations.  to quote Yogi Berra,  "deja vu all over again"  same crap different combatants different day

House Republicans finally find a lawyer for their bogus lawsuit against Obama, a Fox News guest

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/18/1345716/-House-Republicans-finally-find-a-lawyer-for-their-bogus-lawsuit-against-Obama-a-Fox-News-nbsp-guest?detail=email

Maybe the third lawyer's the charm. House Republicans have hired legal scholar and tv personality Jonathan Turley to represent them in their flagging lawsuit against President Obama over "executive overreach" for doing something they wanted to do—delay the employer mandate in Obamacare. Presumably this had something to do with the hiring.

National Review on Monday flagged comments by Turley on Fox News where he said that if Obama takes executive action on immigration reform it would "tear at the very fabric of the Constitution."

That's the kind of Fox News soundbite the GOP needs to turn this turkey of a lawsuit—which has yet to be filed and two lawyers have already dropped—into the kind of public relations fodder they're looking for. Because in terms of the actual lawyering part, House Democrats have nailed it.

"Even for $500-per-hour in taxpayer dollars, Speaker Boehner has had to scour Washington to find a lawyer willing to file this meritless lawsuit against the president," said Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Minority Leader Pelosi. "Now, he's hired a TV personality for this latest episode of his distraction and dysfunction."

if you want a understanding of why this asinine effort continues after two other wasted retainers and your tax dollars what are they doing trying to tie their ObamaCares repeal record 55 times trying to sue for their hurt feelings they have spent millions to debase this Pres. and like their homespun scandals they are archived you don't hear them anymore but don't panic some whack a mole will pop up and Benghazi and IRS and NSA and he overreached with exec action for immigration when their hero twice removed Reagan did it both Bush's but somehow when the Black Pres. does it the halls of congress are ablaze with republican hair on fire or simply hypocrisy.

Fox must have been losing their Svengahli grip on their base and need more red meat to stir up the radical inclinations of those they have nurtured and concentrated on.  G W Bush, " you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on".  with all their rhetoric about working with Pres. the speak is always he needs to come to "THEM" and work with "THEM"  "THEM" are the same bastards that have denied him and by proxy you for 6 years and proclaimed proudly that intent before he even took office, they told us and still here we are with "THEM" saying he needs to work with "THEM"............... you can fill in the blank you know I don't like to use profanity on this blog

GOP Senator Says Obama’s Immigration Speech Could Trigger Some Kind of White Ferguson

http://www.thenation.com/blog/191073/gop-senator-says-obamas-immigration-speech-could-trigger-some-kind-white-ferguson

Retiring Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, in an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page yesterday, seemed to both warn about and threaten white violence against President Obama's executive action on immigration reform, saying the president's speech Thursday night could provoke "violence” and “anarchy." He even suggested that the reaction could parallel the demonstrations and violence in Ferguson, Missouri.

Page asked what will be the reaction of Republicans in Washington, and Coburn acted as if it’s not the GOP that will be upset (‘cause, you know, they’re such a even-keeled bunch: Alabama Representative Mo Brooks actually thinks Obama could end up in jail, as well as impeached). Rather, it’s all those regular folks out there who will be terribly disappointed that the president isn’t working with Congress.

“Oh, I don’t think it’s so much a Republican reaction here,” Coburn said. “The country’s going to go nuts. Because they are going to see it as a move outside of the authority of the president. And it’s going to be a very dangerous situation. You’re going to see—hopefully not—but you could see instances of anarchy."

why do they instigate this type of dissent that is born of bigotry we know hate drives their world but it does not for the majority of Americans by making these assertions they are telling us what their party really stands for segregation, discrimination and separation.  they say Pres. is trying to divide us and their is no racism just one of the two words they changed republicanism all inclusive and all of the above.  

calling him names denoting kingdom and emperors and tyrannical entities when they have been unwillingly and willfully refusing to do their jobs as elected they assumed another job description get Obama at any cost or any lie. Mr. Beohner, where are those 2010 promised jobs??  he is serving "we the people" the same "we the people" republicans abamndoned in order to pursue and undo this President.

they again instead of working with him try to stir up violence in their opposition remember compromise in republican means "Democrats do what republicans want".  also remember they armed the crazies that would commit violence

Major Networks Not Airing Obama's Immigration Speech

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/networks-obama-immigration-speech_n_6188952.html

Despite the great significance of Barack Obama's planned executive action on immigration reform, the four major television broadcast networks are not planning to cover the president's Thursday night address where he is expected to announce his plan.

ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX have all indicated they won't break their planned programming to cover Obama's 8 p.m. ET speech. CNN's Brian Stelter first reportedthat ABC, NBC and CBS were opting out, and an official with FOX confirmed the same with The Hill.

CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and other cable news networks were expected to air the speech, as was PBS.

But the networks that cater to an audience who will be very interested in what the president has to say cleared the time for the address, CNN reported. The vice president of Univision, the nation's leading Spanish-language network, announced plans to interrupt its airing of the Latin Grammy Awards for the president's address. Telemundo, the other big Spanish-language network in the U.S. will also show the speech live. And the White House is expected to stream the event online.

Stelter reported that White House officials decided against formally requesting that the major networks carry the address after getting the impression that they would be hesitant to do so, reports echoed by Deadline and The Hill. November is sweeps month, when primetime slots become all the more valuable. The four major networks have shows slotted for 8 p.m. that attract big audiences, including the fall finale of "Grey’s Anatomy" on ABC, Deadline noted.

i know there are those of us who never listen to Pres. because the Big Bang Theory is on well it's clear that they will probably scream the loudest when they find out what it is others will be happy for Hispanics.  i feel the major networks should have poushed for access and extended their broadcast whats more important who Olivia Pope kissed this time or the future face of America

There's Been HOW Many Pipeline Spills in Alberta in The Last Four Months??

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/17/1345431/-There-s-Been-HOW-Many-Pipeline-Spills-in-Alberta-in-The-Last-Four-Months?detail=email

Alberta, Canada is basically a petro state. Oil and gas production rule everything and it's happening everywhere in the north of the province. Pipelines criss cross most of Alberta. As a result, leaks of wells, facilities and pipelines are a constant thing all over the province.

But we Canadians almost never hear about them. Our main media, CBC, does not provide any coverage of the many, many spills and gas releases that happen every month, nor the efforts to clean up the messes. They're simply not considered news...at least not on the scale of disasters like some attention grabber showing up at the War Memorial on Remembrance day in uniform and bedecked with medals..none of which (uniform included) belonged to him. The guy is under arrest for impersonating an officer.

But back to the non news. It seems someone is taking notice. West Coast Native News (WCNN) has been quietly keeping tabs on all the spills and leaks. What they have found is shocking!!

More past the toxic orange spill...careful you don't get any on your shoes!!

The WCNN is reporting on all the spills and natural gas releases and have kindly provided the incidence reports to back up their claims

Over the past year WCNN has reported on many Crude oil and Toxic produced water spills all over Alberta, in fact we have reported over 600,000 Litres of toxic crap that has been spilled just last month and yet not one mainstream media outlet has picked up the incidents. So lets take a look back at just the last month (October) and see just what the mainstream is not telling you.

Oct 3, 2014 – Canadian Natural Resources Limited – 11Km East of Delia – 10,000 litres of Crude oil
Oct 5, 2014 – Nexen Energy ULC – 2.5Km SouthWest of Kinosis – 5,800 litres of Toxic water
Oct 5, 2014 – Cenovus Energy Inc – 56Km East of Brooks – 9,800 litres of Toxic water
Oct 5, 2014 – Nexen Energy ULC – 41Km SouthEast of Ft. McMurray – 13,000 litres of Condensate
Oct 10, 2014 – Husky Oil – 30Km SouthEast of Vermilion – 50,000 litres of Crude oil and 25,000 litres of toxic water
Oct 13, 2014 – Arc Resources – 5Km North of Redwater – 150,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 11, 2014 – TAQA North Ltd – 44Km SouthWest of Spirit River – 24,000 litres of Crude oil
Oct 14, 2014 – Whitecap Resources Inc – 37Km NorthWest of Sexsmith – 10,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 15, 2014 – Penn West Petroleum Ltd -14Km SouthEast of Slave Lake – 52,000 litres Crude oil
Oct 14, 2014 – Zargon Oil & Gas Ltd – 26Km NorthWest of Vauxhall – 8,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 17, 2014 – TAQA North Ltd – 32Km NorthWest of Rocky Mountain House – 18,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 21, 2014 – Harvest Operations Corp – 20Km East of Galahad – 200,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 26, 2014 – Apache Canada Ltd -9Km East of Zama City – 50,000 litres of Toxic water
Total = Over 625,000 Litres of toxic crap spilled in Alberta for just the month of October and not one Mainstream media reports about it.

https://sheet.zoho.com/...

Curious, I went back to July, August and September of this year, and found that October's incidents weren't unusual at all!! In July, 27 incidents were reported --16 of which involved pipelines spilling either crude oil or gas production. August saw 39 spills or releases happen, 28 of which involved pipelines. September--26, of which 22 were pipeline spills or releases. October-- 41 total incidents ( 24 pipeline incidents).

The grand total for four months....133 incidents of which 90 involved pipeline spills....68%!!!!

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/08/25/what-is-wrong-with-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/

so why hasn't the republicans divulged this to us it would appear that since they voted and lost for the keystone abomination we are left only with they don't give a gnat's crap as long as big oil gets what it wants, screwing the people well that's just gravy. we know they don't care if your family gets sick because if they continue to get their way and repeal leaf and branch ObamaCares you'll still have their favorite health care your local ER. recognize  I hope for the sake of those families that will be exposed that Pres. does the right thing.

oh and will you see any benefit from keystone personally?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-steyer/keystone-xl-is-a-suckers-_b_4676227.html

or will people like the Kochs be the winners?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/10/22/the-kochs-will-not-make-a-100-billion-profit-from-keystone-xl/

Mississippi tea partiers seek to recognize Christianity as the state's 'principal' religion

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/18/1345754/-Mississippi-tea-partiers-seek-to-recognize-Christianity-as-the-state-s-principal-religion?detail=email

We turn our eyes now to Mississippi, a state that has never really gotten very comfortable with this Western democracy nonsense and wonders aloud at whether the caliphate idea is a pretty good one, with a few adjustments to suit the local tastes. In Mississippi, a tea party group seeks to declare that Christianity is the state's officially recognized religion because that's just the way it is, the rest of you, and to put such a statement into the state constitution via ballot measure in the 2016 elections.

The campaign’s Arthur Randallson explained to American Family Association news network OneNewsNow, “We have taken a little bit of time to prepare an initiative that covers promoting Christianity, which is recognized as the principal religion of Mississippi from the founding of the state in 1817 to the present, and affirmed in the state constitution prayer acknowledging the Holy Bible.”

The actual text of the amendment would read:

The State of Mississippi hereby acknowledges the fact of her identity as a principally Christian and quintessentially Southern state, in terms of the majority of her population, character, culture, history, and heritage, from 1817 to the present; accordingly, the Holy Bible is acknowledged as a foremost source of her founding principles, inspiration, and virtues; and, accordingly, prayer is acknowledged as a respected, meaningful, and valuable custom of her citizens. The acknowledgments hereby secured shall not be construed to transgress either the national or the state Constitution’s Bill of Rights.

these persons are of the evangelical type the ones who have usurped Christianity and it's teachings and made them their own. this is the same tea party that took your kids off to summer indoctrination camps i guess that was so successful they now are trying to change the school curriculum to teach the same brain washing topics that create those faithful more to them then God mostly because their bigotry and racism and tenets are not those of the Christian teachings of Jesus or the Bible.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/15/246341/tea-party-summer-camp/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/texas-school-board-approves-controversial-textbook-changes/954/

In other words, it doesn’t violate the First Amendment, which prohibits the establishment of a state religion, simply because it says that it wouldn’t.

Oh, it also bars all government services from being rendered in any language other than English and designates a month in which the Confederate flag will be flown at the capitol and demands the return of "Colonel Reb" as the University of Mississippi's school mascot—again, though, if you see "flaming tea party racism and a longing for simpler times when we fought that war premised on the inherent inferiority of every non-white among us" as the motivating link between these various measures, you need to stop being divisive, you divider. But those are piffling concerns compared to the important thing, which is establishing a state-recognized religion (specifically, Jesus) in spite of that being one of the Primary Damn Things our founding document says the state cannot do. 

It looks like the advocates will be attempting to wriggle out of that one by claiming, as is often the case, that the constitutional amendment "acknowledging" the state as "principally Christian" and built from the principles of "the Holy Bible" doesn't actually do anything, it's just there for shits and giggles and to honor the confederate heritage of not giving a damn what the Constitution of the United States actually says.

your 2014 midterm vote or non vote at work welcome to another world order, wish i could say enjoy especially to those who voted for this