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Give me your thoughts, 3CP and I’ll tweet it. I’m having so fun with this. :)
— -☺@fjudkins1
@JeffersonObama @carmenvellon You hit the nail on the head. He should be arrested! Absolute worst Speaker in history!! Spineless weasel😡
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
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@molodyko
Almost every $ spent in promoting shutdown has come from 5 groups, all five funded by the Kochs. This is a Koch US Govt. shutdown
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We are wasting our time with the GOP House leadership. The real power players in this crisis are the Kochs & Jim Demint #GOPshutdown
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Ted Cruz is essentially America’s most dangerous terrorist bent on destroying it. —
MORE –L8R :>) — –
Schaub got picked off again. **lays head on desk**
Good night, every one!
Say it ain’t so! That did not happen!
Go, Texans! Lets rock and roll!
Go head, sister! Sing the song!
NY1 News @NY1headlines5 Oct
De Blasio, Lhota Both Appear At National Action Network http://bit.ly/1f8HbUz
edroso @edroso5 Oct
.@joshgreenman can’t tell you what pleasure it gives me that Sharpton has basically replaced the NY Archbishop as a political broker.
tee hee hee Rev AL .. Can’t touch him When are the rest of the MSNBC CLOWNS
How about those Lynx!
Miriam Carey, Unforgettable and Unnecessary?
Posted: 06 Oct 2013 10:04 AM PDT
The name Miriam Carey is one we should never forget. The woman at the center of what is looking more and more like yet another potential case of excessive police force is just as dead as Jonathan Ferrell, another name we should never forget. Mr. Ferrell shot dead and killed after an automobile accident by police who were called by a frightened woman who’s door he knocked ostensibly seeking help after climbing out of the car he had been driving that was involved in an accident.
Miriam Carey – is a name that should never be forgotten. So far what little information that has been put out centers around her job as a dental hygienist and where she lived in Brooklyn and apparently Connecticut. There have been vague statements about her possibly suffering from Post-partum depression as well as her being on some form of medication that might be psychotropic and that she was in the process of being weaned off of. Comments about mental illness as a root cause to this have been thrown around however the question in that instance would remain — was there no other way for Miriam Carey to get help or for her situation to be resolved aside from the way it turned out?
As the investigation is ongoing not much is being said by local DC law enforcement aside from a press conference given on the evening that the events occurred. One interview that was given by the sisters of Miriam Carey indicated that they had no idea that their sister was headed towards DC and that they couldn’t speak to any motivation on her part to explain any part of the actions that led to her death.
http://www.rippdemup.com/2013/10/miriam-carey-unforgettable-and-unnecessary/
Yeah, I think that the incident with Miriam Carey is going to come down to a person who was severely depressed and the use of excessive force by the police. From what has been written about Ms. Carey it does not sound as though the treatment she was getting was sufficient for the severity of her depression. I would just add that it is not uncommon for a severely depressed person to suffer in silence and to try to conceal how badly they feel from even those who are closest to them. This has nothing to do with denial, it is part of the illness. The suicide rate for severe depression is somewhere around 20%, if I am not mistaken.
Commentary: We need journalists to hold politicians accountable for extremist actions, not to enable them
.US. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a “bitterly divided” Congress that “failed to reach agreement” (Washington Post) or “a bitter budget standoff” left unresolved by “rapid-fire back and forth legislative maneuvers” (New York Times). This sort of false equivalence is not just a failure of journalism. It is also a failure of democracy.
When the political leadership of this country is incapable of even keeping the government open, a political course correction is in order. But how can democracy self-correct if the public does not understand where the problem lies? And where will the pressure for change come from if journalists do not hold the responsible parties accountable?
The truth of what happened Monday night, as almost all political reporters know full well, is that “Republicans staged a series of last-ditch efforts to use a once-routine budget procedure to force Democrats to abandon their efforts to extend U.S. health insurance.” (Thank you, Guardian.)
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/1/reporting-governmentshutdowndemocracy.html
GO COWBOYS! Where are you SG2? Texans & 49ers play later
Did you see Romo’s 502 yard pass? :)
Hee hee!
http://images.crestock.com/3790000-3799999/3797165-xs.jpg
Yes! Dang it; Bronchos took it. 51-48. BUMMER. GOT TEXANS!
This was the 4th highest scoring game in the NFL.
Romo threw an interception with only minutes left in the game. Dang!
I’m waiting on the Texans!
LOL BEAT’EM TEXANS!!!
Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
Chris Plummer: There are people who hate Obama not just because they disagree with him, but also because he’s black. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/05/christopher-plummer-on-muhammad-ali-and-getting-a-police-horse-drunk.html …
8:27 AM – 6 Oct 2013
KSK(africa) @lawalazu
In my part of the world, they call this a coup de tat, except that they use guns. Here the ammunition is money. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html …
5:10 PM – 6 Oct 2013
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
The stand by conservatives that led to the current crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort, waged by a galaxy of well-funded groups, to undo President Obama’s health care law.
The New York Times @nytimes
When elections used to have consequences
By Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor, NBC News
As conservative Republicans continue to demand concessions from President Barack Obama’s health-care law as the price to end the government shutdown, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was asked a simple question on Sunday: Why not accomplish this instead by winning elections?
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ut other Republicans have said those efforts are a pipe dream. “The Democratic Senate is never going to pass, nor is President Obama ever going to sign, a bill that would repeal his signature accomplishment,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said on Saturday.
Two ways Washington creates change
In the U.S. system of government — with its checks and balances — major legislative change comes in two forms. One, when one political party controls most, if not all, of the branches of government (see the New Deal, Great Society, Obama’s health-care law). Two, when divided government reaches good-faith compromise (Social Security changes in the 1980s, welfare reform in the 1990s).
But in the 15-plus years this reporter has covered Washington politics, such legislative compromise has never been dictated by the terms of the side that had lost the previous election. The losing side has certainly blocked the majority creating new laws (like George W. Bush’s Social Security effort in 2005, Bill Clinton’s second-term agenda, Obama’s cap-and-trade legislation). However, it hasn’t rolled back major laws, especially without controlling all the branches of government.
The reason: Elections have consequences. Or at least they used to.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/06/20843270-when-elections-used-to-have-consequences?lite
Have They No Shame?
http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/wp-content/blogs.dir/85/files/2013/10/government-shutdown-cartoon-heller1-495×341.jpg
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/10/06/revealing-tan-line/
Cruz: Tie debt ceiling to ObamaCare
By Vicki Needham – 10/06/13 09:53 AM ET
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday said changes to President Obama’s signature healthcare law should be tied to a debt ceiling increase.
The Texas Republican said any deal on raising the nation’s borrowing authority should include some “significant structural” plans to reduce government spending, avoid new taxes and “look for ways to mitigate the harm from ObamaCare.”
“The debt ceiling historically has been among the best leverage that Congress has to rein in the executive,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Of the 55 times Congress has raised the debt limit, Cruz argued that 28 of those times Congress has attached “very stringent requirements,” many designed to reduce spending, including the 2011 sequestration plan.
So, a debt-ceiling increase should “respond to real harms coming from ObamaCare,” Cruz said.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/326801-cruz-calls-on-lawmakers-to-tie-debt-ceiling-to-obamacare#ixzz2gytRtYbz
October 6, 2013, 2:38 pm 8 Comments
We Are Now At War With Eastasia, I Mean The Deficit
This morning, for my sins, I found myself involuntarily watching bits and piece of the morning talk shows, and it seemed clear that Republicans have been given a new talking point. Suddenly, the shutdown/debt ceiling confrontation isn’t just about Obamacare; it’s about curbing runaway spending growth and exploding debt.
I’m a bit surprised. I didn’t expect Republicans to worry about the facts that federal spending has been flat in nominal terms, and falling fast in real per capita terms, for several years, or that the deficit is plunging. But I did think they might worry that the public has moved on from the debt scare, and also that some people might balk at the sudden attempt to rewrite history.
And they should balk. This was never about controlling the deficit. It started as an attempt to stop health reform before it could get started; it has now morphed into an attempt to extract something, anything from Obama to save face (which he can’t give them, because he needs to take a stand against extortion.)
And it’s still looking grim.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/we-are-now-at-war-with-eastasia-i-mean-the-deficit/?_r=0
zizi2 @zizii2
Who BENEFITS from #GOPDefault? Who benefits from mass-scale FEAR, global financial chaos? Follow the money
4:24 PM – 6 Oct 2013
zizi2 @zizii2
#GOPLemmings do you know where ur #KochPuppetmasters hve MOVED their assets to? Cantor shorts US creditworthiness. What’s in it for You?
2:58 PM – 6 Oct 2013
zizi2 @zizii2
Now we know when Kochs flew Cantor, Ryan, Boehner, Cruz, et al for the billionaires’ retreat this year, they were MANDATED to DESTROY USA
4:06 PM – 6 Oct 2013
zizi2 @zizii2
PHANTOM @RepPeteKing “moderates” gang is a choreographed dogbone-toss intended to string out #Democrats & Media. #GOPshutdown
4:20 PM – 6 Oct 2013
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/10/06/revealing-tan-line/#comment-4649534
People, Who Will Soon Be Visited By the Secret Service.
http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/62927287232/people-who-will-soon-be-visited-by-the-secret-service
A Visit to Mississippi
Yee Haw.
These people are living pitiful lives……It’s the pits.
Visionary Leon Kennedy: “Believe in Myself.”
Fareed Zakaria government shutdown ‘extortion’.
Excellent video!
@thepeoplesview
The GOP has two choices: break the Tea Party or break America. They’re doing the second. So much for #countryfirst. #GOPshutdown
So these folks are going to keep Miriam’s daughter away from the rest of her family? WTF
what the fuck is this shyt?
I don’t get it.
Is there a problem with the father who would claim her/his daughter before Miriam’s parents could claim her?
It’s Not Always Good News for Republicans
by BooMan
Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 10:10:31 AM EST
The headline is misleading, but I get what Reid Wilson is saying. For Republican governors who are thinking of running for president, the government shutdown offers them an opportunity to be a little above the fray. They can badmouth Washington in general terms, which is always popular on both sides of the aisle. And they can point out that their governments are open for business.
But I don’t think the government shutdown actually helps these governors’ chances of winning the presidency. And it isn’t going to help Tom Corbett win reelection in Pennsylvania or Rick Snyder in Michigan.
Ground zero is obviously Virginia, where so many people work for the federal government. Open up an Electoral College Calculator and try to find a path to victory for the GOP that doesn’t involve them winning Virginia. (Hint: if the Dems win Virginia in 2016, they can cede Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Florida and still win the election with 272 votes). Anything that damages the GOP brand in Virginia should be of the utmost concern to any potential Republican candidate for the presidency in 2016.
As Dan Balz documents in this morning’s Washington Post, the country is growing increasingly polarized, which means that there are lot of areas of the country where the people think what the Republicans are doing makes some kind of sense. Northern Virginia is not one of those places. The Philly suburbs are not one of those places.
In my opinion, the shutdown is increasing polarization on a lop-sided battlefield that favors the Democrats on the presidential level. It will increase passions on both sides, but the only movement from one party to the other will come from people in the middle who will be alarmed at the financial brinksmanship of the Republicans or who have directly detrimental experiences as a result of the shutdown.
It isn’t good news for Republican gubernatorial candidates who are running for election or re-election in blue states, and it isn’t good news for whoever wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
It’s also creating real stressors on the Republican coalition because they have quite a few representatives who are serving in states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California that are culturally alienated from the ObamaCare revolt and whose base is centered in the financial industry. These seats, along with the ones the GOP holds in Virginia, will be the ones that become vulnerable and that could fall if the backlash is severe enough.
On the whole, the shutdown isn’t doing the Republicans any favors, which is one main reason why the Democrats aren’t too worried about it lasting a while.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/10/6/101031/880
Happy Birthday to Rev. Joseph Lowery.
Happy 92nd Birthday Rev. Lowery!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, REV. LOWERY!
Does Michelle Nunn Know What She’s Doing?
by BooMan
Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 01:33:45 AM EST
Maybe it is because I grew up as the son of an advertising executive, next door to a senior partner at a major Manhattan law firm, with classmates whose parents worked at places like Cantor Fitzgerald or the Institute for Advanced Study, but I’ve never been really comfortable with the language of the Occupy Movement. I understand the usefulness of discussing the 1% vs. the 99%. I certainly understand the impulse to bash Wall Street. In any case, we need to have some kind of language for discussing rising income inequality and its causes. I just choose to use my own terminology.
I also noticed and was somewhat annoyed that the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Georgia, Michelle Nunn, came out of the box talking about the need to address the country’s debt. It annoyed me on the merits, not so much on the politics.
I have long argued that progressives can win in the South without adopting the DLC/Blue Dog model, so long as they can figure out how to finance their campaigns. On balance, I think someone who talks about Wall Street the way Elizabeth Warren talks about Wall Street will do better with your average Georgian voter than one who talks constantly about lowering our debt.
But let’s also be realistic. Go down to Georgia hill country and a spend a little time. “The massive Primal Scream coming from the children of the DixieCrats” that currently has the government shut down has to be taken into account.
Michelle Nunn can win this race, but she is going to have to significantly cut into the Republicans’ advantage with the white vote. Maybe she can count on some x-chromosome solidarity, but she can’t sound like she’s going to Washington to be a big help to the president.
The most obvious route to victory for Michelle Nunn is for her to brand herself as a newer, hipper, more estrogen-endowed version of her father, and to take advantage of the radicalism of her opponent. It’s not too distinct from the path Kay Hagan took to win a seat in North Carolina, and Sen. Hagan looks like she is in decent shape to win a second term.
Now, playing it safe may not be good enough, but going populist is probably the harder challenge. For starters, I’d hesitate to recommend a strategy that isn’t genuine. The daughter of a senator isn’t necessarily a natural anti-establishment candidate. Secondly, we need to think of what type of white voters she can attract, and how she can attract them?
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/10/6/13345/4256
Fri Oct 04, 2013 at 09:53 AM PDT
GOP Wants Nothing We Dems Have To Offer In Trade…
by cskendrick
but our political extinction.
You cannot look at the standoff in Washington as an exercise in game theory, or in terms of rational self-interest, or even in terms of political gamesmanship.
If you do, you are going to be magnificently wrong in your assessment of Republicans’ perceptions, assessments of conditions, decisions based on those assessments, motivations and reactions to your own existence and behavior, and the more subtle clues of mobilization, communications and morale.
Last but not least, you are going to come up with a completely wrong synthesis of WTF Are These People Up To?
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Thing is, the President doesn’t seem to be very good at destroying America. So the Tea Partiers, the energizing heart of the modern Republican Party, are very thoughtfully helping him fulfill the destiny they’ve assigned him.
You might wonder what does default get them?
And this is why I think Democrats have nothing to offer in trade that Republicans want in lieu of the default.
They get everything they want by pushing America over the edge.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/04/1244129/-GOP-Wants-Nothing-We-Dems-Have-To-Offer-In-Trade
Frankenstein Goes to Congress
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: October 4, 2013
Our question for today is: Why don’t the Republicans just throw in the towel? Really, this is not going well for anybody.
Lots of reasons. There’s Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the General Patton of the government shutdown. And people like the Republican in the House who said he and his colleagues “have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.” Also, Ted Cruz.
“So many Democrats have invoked my name as the root of all evil in the world,” Cruz complained on the floor of the Senate Friday. This is true. Senate Republicans merely regard him as the root of most of the evil in the world.
But here’s my long-term theory. Over the past few years, Republicans have terrified their most fervent followers about Obamacare in order to disguise the fact that they no longer knew what to say about their old bête noir, entitlements. Now they can’t turn the temperature down.
Let’s review. Not so very long ago, worrying about entitlements was central to Republican identity. Then, they began to notice that the folks at their rallies looked like the audience for “Matlock” reruns. The base was aging, and didn’t want to change Social Security or Medicare. The base didn’t even want to be reminded that Social Security and Medicare were federal programs.
During the last Republican primary debates, Gov. Rick Perry called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” Mitt Romney jumped all over him, then raced off to tell a conservative talk show host that if the Republicans nominated someone with Perry’s view on Social Security “we would be obliterated as a party.”
This year, when President Obama proposed a budget that actually did reduce the rate at which Social Security benefits would rise in the future, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee denounced it as “a shocking attack on seniors.”
People like Paul Ryan still fiddled with Medicare, but only in wonkese that didn’t trickle down to the public. There were vague references to the need to “protect” programs for the elderly. But the party had lost its old rallying cry. Enter health care reform.
Just this week, Rick Perry called Obamacare “a criminal act.” He appears to be gearing up for another presidential run, and you are not going to hear any Ponzi talk this time around. However, he’s so set against the new health care law that he’s refusing to let 1.5 million really poor Texans qualify for federally financed coverage. When Rick Perry has a principle, no sacrifice is too great.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/opinion/collins-frankenstein-goes-to-congress.html
The rise of the New Confederacy
By Colbert I. King, Published: October 4
It took on new force with fears of the federal government in Washington interfering with their cherished way of life. It gathered steam with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. And it all came into full flower when shore batteries fired on Fort Sumter. It was the spirit of the Old Confederacy, a state-sponsored rebellion hellbent on protecting its “peace and safety” from the party that took possession of the government on March 4, 1861.
The rebels launched a grisly war against the Union. In his inaugural address, Lincoln warned the Confederacy: “You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”
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Federal government as the enemy.
Today there is a New Confederacy, an insurgent political force that has captured the Republican Party and is taking up where the Old Confederacy left off in its efforts to bring down the federal government.
No shelling of a Union fort, no bloody battlefield clashes, no Good Friday assassination of a hated president — none of that nauseating, horrendous stuff. But the behavior is, nonetheless, malicious and appalling.
The New Confederacy, as churlish toward President Obama as the Old Confederacy was to Lincoln, has accomplished what its predecessor could not: It has shut down the federal government, and without even firing a weapon or taking 620,000 lives, as did the Old Confederacy’s instigated Civil War.
Not stopping there, however, the New Confederacy aims to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States, setting off economic calamity at home and abroad — all in the name of “fiscal sanity.”
Its members are as extreme as their ideological forebears. It matters not to them, as it didn’t to the Old Confederacy, whether they ultimately go down in flames. So what? For the moment, they are getting what they want: a federal government in the ditch, restrained from seeking to create a more humane society that extends justice for all.
The ghosts of the Old Confederacy have to be envious.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-the-tea-party-resurrects-the-spirit-of-the-old-confederacy/2013/10/04/95b37f6e-2c7b-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html
CBS Host Takes Apart GOP’s Shutdown Argument
By Zack Beauchamp on October 6, 2013 at 11:56 am
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) was unable to explain why Republicans needed to threaten economic disaster to try to get their way on Obamacare during an interview on CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday.
Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation’s host, repeatedly asked Cornyn why, instead of using normal legislative procedures like passing laws, Republicans were refusing to pass a continuing resolution funding the government or raise the debt ceiling absent changes to several parts of President Obama’s signature health care law. Schieffer compared this strategy to saying “I’m going to throw a brick through your window unless you give me $20:”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/06/2739081/schieffer-cornyn-debt-shutdown-ceiling/
Father, I want to thank You for President Obama and his tireless efforts to advance and bring benefits to this country. Thank You for breaking the stronghold being put against his efforts to advance healthcare in particular. Thank You, Sir, ending this shutdown quickly and speedily and with such a force that it cannot be denied that it was You. Thank You for continuing to guide, guard and protect our beloved President and his family and Vice-President and his family and giving them continued wisdom as they keep their hearts and minds on helping the American people. Shower them with Your Love, in Jesus Name. Amen.
AMEN!
Vindicate our President!
Amen.
AMEN!!!
Nearly 11,000 Complete Kynect Application For Coverage
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kentucky officials have released the latest data on kynect, the new health benefit exchange.
They say nearly 11,000 applications have been completed to obtain health insurance under the state’s new online marketplace, and almost 5,000 individuals or families have picked a health plan and signed up for coverage.
Enrollment began Tuesday through the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange – the online guide to a variety of insurance policies. Such exchanges across the country are the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
Kentucky officials said Friday more than 137,000 people have browsed the website, and 93 percent of them have gone through pre-screenings to determine if they qualify for subsidies or Medicaid.
Gov. Steve Beshear says he’s pleased with the response and says Kentucky is the “gold standard” for implementing the program.
The system encountered some first-day glitches, but those were fixed in a few hours.
http://wuky.org/post/nearly-11000-complete-kynect-application-coverage
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. Their push to repeal Mr. Obama’s health care law was going nowhere, and they desperately needed a new plan.
Out of that session, held one morning in a location the members insist on keeping secret, came a little-noticed “blueprint to defunding Obamacare,” signed by Mr. Meese and leaders of more than three dozen conservative groups.
It articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that had long percolated in conservative circles: that Republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow Republicans — including their cautious leaders — into cutting off financing for the entire federal government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html?hp&_r=2&
2014 poll: GOP could lose the House
By LUCY MCCALMONT | 10/6/13 10:54 AM EDT
The Republican Party could be in danger of losing control of the House in 2014, new polls on Sunday show.
In a survey of 24 seats, Republicans fall behind in 17 head-to-head matches against “generic Democrat candidates” among registered voters and lag in an additional four districts when respondents are told the Republican candidate supported the shutdown, according to the surveys by Public Policy Polling which were funded by the liberal group, MoveOn.org
Democrats would need to pick up 17 seats to take over the House – something the polling reveals could be within reach.
One district that shows a favorable position for a Democratic challenger is N.Y.-19, the high-profile contest in which Sean Eldridge, the husband of Facebook co-founder and New Republic owner Chris Hughes, is looking to unseat the Republican incumbent, Chris Gibson. However, Eldridge’s name does not appear on the survey as the challenger
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/2014-elections-poll-gop-house-97890.html#ixzz2gxnIV67G
iegoUK @DiegoUK15m
Remember to mark the moment the Republicans realize their mistake and quietly switch from calling it Obamacare.
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another great comment by aleth:
Schumer To Boehner: Prove That A Clean CR Won’t Pass Share
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) challenged Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) contention Sunday that “there are not the votes in the House to pass a clean CR” and reopen the government.
“Well, first, the speaker said there aren’t the votes on the floor to re-open the government. Let me issue him a friendly challenge. Put it on the floor Monday or Tuesday. I would bet there are the votes to pass it,” Schumer said on ABC’s “This Week” appearing just after Boehner. “We have just about every Democrat, 21 Republicans have publicly said they would. There are many more Republicans who have said that they privately would.”
“So, Speaker Boehner, just vote. Put it on the floor and let’s see if you’re right.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney issued a similar challenge on Twitter:
Jay Carney (EOP) ✔ @PressSec
The Speaker says there are “not enough votes” to pass a clean CR? If he’s right, why not prove it? http://wapo.st/1bAEOJr #JustVote
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/schumer-to-boehner-prove-that-a-clean-cr-won-t-pass
COSIGN. And the media goes mightly along and pretend as though what the GOP is doing and how they re behaving is normal and acceptable. FUCK’EM!
John Boehner Threatens to Destroy the Economy If Obama Won’t Give Him What He Wants
By: Jason Easley
On ABC’s This Week, Speaker of the House John Boehner issued threatened President Obama and the country with default on debts if his demands aren’t met.
The faux Republican position of compromise has now shifted to one of threats. President Obama has refused to give Boehner what he wants, so now he is threatening to blow up the economy. Speaker Boehner is sticking to the extremist position that Obamacare must be delayed, or the economy gets it.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/06/john-boehner-threatens-destroy-economy-obama-give.html
Michael Steele on shutdown: ‘We have elected a bunch of children to run our government’
Opinion
by Michael Steele | October 2, 2013 at 9:17 AM
Look ma, no federal government!
At some point the entire BS that is the government shutdown sinks in and we have to deal with reality: We have elected a bunch of children to run our government.
One reality that must not change about America and the free enterprise economy is that the root of America’s success has always sprung out of the hard labor of its entrepreneurs: the men and women who risk it all on a dream. Government doesn’t do that; government can’t do that. When a job is created by a small business owner they make an investment in people in a way that government can’t match. So when those same business owners have legitimate concerns about government policies that affect them, elected officials must listen in order to preserve the conditions that allow small businesses to thrive.
http://thegrio.com/2013/10/02/michael-steele-on-shutdown-we-have-elected-a-bunch-of-children-to-run-our-government/
Report: Halle Berry Has Delivered a Bouncing Baby Boy!
October 5, 2013 by EurPublisher
*Halle Berry has given birth! Yep, congrats are in order.
According to E! News, Saturday, the Oscar winning actress gave birth to a baby boy at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
This is the second child for Halle and her first with her husband, Olivier Martinez. Berry has a 5-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry.
In telling People, back in May that Ms. Berry was pregnant with a boy, Martinez said, “My son will remain an American, but I will remain French.”
He continued: “I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there—but I’m still a foreigner. My son will be an American.”
As of this posting no other details were available regarding the baby’s health, weight name.
Meanwhile, in other news about Halle, as we reported on Friday, she’s set to star in Steven Spielberg’s new CBS drama “Extant,” in which she’ll play an astronaut who returns home after a year-long solo mission in space.
The series is scheduled to air in summer 2014.
http://www.eurweb.com/2013/10/report-halle-berry-has-delivered-a-bouncing-baby-boy/
Please sign petition.Tell NBC News: Correcting Republican lies is part of Chuck Todd’s job.
http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-nbc-news-correcting-republican-lies-is-part-of-your-job
I wrote LOD and Al Sharpton on FB to do just that.
Brilliant comment by aleth:
Excellent. Thanks for this, rikyrah!
“Supreme Court term begins with contentious topics”
Excerpt:
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP7640abad06eb488db571f4b493e5dd5b.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
“Supreme Court to Hear Mount Holly Discrimination Suit”
by Tom De Poto/Star Ledger
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/06/top_court_to_hear_mount_holly.html
“Supreme Court agrees to hear Michigan affirmative action case.
Supreme Court justices will weigh in on Michigan’s Proposal 2 to bar race as a factor in admitting university student applicants.”
March 25, 2013 By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/25/nation/la-na-court-affirmative-action-20130326
“Susan L. Taylor: 01 You Bring You a Whole Person”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BLCU2C7s9ts
Uploaded on Youtube by UVvideos
“2011 Poem of the Year By New Comer Janette Ikz”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gza69LXvuaY
Uploaded on Mar 10, 2011 by Style Magazine
“An Introduction to the Maroons”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=X7tyFxHk5SI
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025841/
For more see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mitchell,_Jr.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-gov-brown-approves-limit-on-local-law-enforcement-holding-of-unlawful-immigrants-20131005,0,6384695.story
2005 article about Edisto Beach in SC:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2866281
“Archeologist Excavating Historic African-American’s Home”
“Jameson Jenkins: Lincoln Neighbor, Underground Railroad Conductor”
Posted on April 13, 2013 by editor
http://sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/?p=527
“Lecture To Focus On Jameson Jenkins’ Home In Lincoln Neighborhood”
http://wuis.org/post/lecture-focus-jameson-jenkins-home-lincoln-neighborhood
You can listen to this lecture when you click on the link.
“”Waitress” – LJP on HBO Def Poetry”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eIkyp9JiG68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b5xhWXzRFks
She quotes a poet at the beginning of her performance (Miriam Williamson?) who has words similar to those in one of Maya Angelou’s poems.
Oh, rikyrah…thanks for posting such moving deliveries by Aretha and Whitney Houston! I feel it!
You know, this is what means so much to me when I listen to gospel music. It is not music that taps you quickly on the head with a wonderful message that requires your mind to digest it and then send it to your soul.
No, to me, gospel music is a laying on of hands directly to my soul. Gospel music rejoices in the repetition of the words of the message and then stays and embraces while the “listening” soul is “watered”, nurtured, and then blooms right then and there in the midst of the singing.
Beautiful comment.
Happy Sunday, everyone!
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Beautiful!
Glad you liked the selections, and your comment was wonderful.
rikyrah, SG2, and vitaminlover,
Bless all of you!
Happy Sunday, Everyone. Rikyrah bringing church all up in here. this is definitely SOUL-Striring music.