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CARSON CITY, Nev (AP) - Northern Nevada is hosting 18 semi-finalists from a Chinese beauty pageant in a televised tour and competition officials hope will bring international exposure to the state.
Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Monday that the Miss Chinese Cosmos Semi-Finals will take place in Reno and Lake Tahoe Sept. 23-30. The
winner becomes China's representative to the Miss Universe pageant.
The contest moves around the world and was in Sydney, Australia last year. This is the first time the pageant has been held in the United States.
Contestants will tour the National Automobile Museum, the state Capitol and the Nevada State Museum. They will also take a cruise on the M.S. Dixie II and see a Wild-West shoot-out in Virginia City.
More than 10 million viewers are expected to watch the pageant.
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Tuesday's ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442832940868876512014-11-20T13:02:50.347-08:00Reading is for SnobsReporting Left Wing News that Even the Liberal Media Won'tXenoshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-20773765911828935592014-11-20T12:59:00.000-08:002014-11-20T13:02:50.366-08:00Poll: Half of All Republicans Agree With Gruber That The American People Are Indeed StupidRepublicans have been absolutely furious at Jonathan Gruber's secret remarks about the American people being "stupid". But you know who else thinks the American people are stupid? Republicans.

Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters agree that the American people are too stupid to understand the true costs associated with Obamacare, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll. Just 52% disagree and another 16% are not sure.

...

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Democrats and voters not affiliated with either major party by a 47% to 33% margin say the American people are not too stupid to understand the actual costs associated with Obamacare. Republicans are evenly divided on the question.
Since his comments were leaked, Jonathan Gruber has turned into history's greatest monster. Yet for some strange reason, half of Republicans seem to concur with Herr Gruber. Imagine that.Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/11/poll-half-of-all-republicans-agree-with.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-71601392907821341022014-11-13T03:32:00.000-08:002014-11-13T03:34:26.176-08:00Rush Limbaugh Thinks Stephen Colbert's Audience Was Laughing WITH HimApparently some things are too subtle for El Rushbo:

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number one. Last night it was Comedy Central, and it was Colbert Report. I always do that, the Colbert Report. And it was time to make fun of your host, El Rushbo, for my take on the meaning of the election.

LIMBAUGH: The biggest and perhaps the most important mandate a political party has had in the recent era, and it is very simple what that mandate is: It is to stop Barack Obama. Republicans were not elected to govern.

COLBERT: Thank you. Republicans were not elected to govern. Their one job -- (applause) -- huge, huge Rush Limbaugh fans here tonight. (cheers) Republicans were not elected to govern. Their one job is to stop Obama.

RUSH: And that got practically a standing ovation on Comedy Central last night, totally shocking the host, and once again, demonstrating the whole world agrees with me on this. It just does. It's a great validation.

Rush seems to understand, unlike many on the right, that Colbert is not in fact, a genuine conservative, but doesn't seem to grasp the possibility that the people cheering in the audience, probably weren't doing so as legitimate fans. If they were, don't you think they'd probably be booing when they realized Colbert was making fun of Rush?

But hey, don't take my word for it. Watch the segment below and judge for yourselves:

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Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/11/rush-limbaugh-thinks-stephen-colberts.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-25748192902504333262014-11-11T12:49:00.001-08:002014-11-11T12:54:07.769-08:00More Good Economic News For KansasHeck of a job, Brownback:

Kansas will collect $1 billion less in revenue in 2015 and 2016 than its projected expenses following massive income tax cuts signed into law by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

The new revenue estimates released Monday revealed that Kansas would burn through about $380 million in reserves and still need to cut $280 million to balance its current budget for fiscal year 2015, which ends next June 30.

The problem continues in 2016 when revenues are projected to run $436 million short of expenditures, the estimates show.
Now yes, that sounds pretty bad, and you would think that the state should be doing something to make it less bad, but Brownie thinks the state's finances are doing just fine thank you very much:

Brownback's budget director, Shawn Sullivan, said the administration has no intention of revisiting the state's tax policy, which calls for further income tax cuts through 2018.

Sure, the original point of enacting the tax cuts was that they would supposedly create more revenue (because that is a thing that actually happens in reality, of course) , but just because it failed to achieve its primary goal doesn't mean we need to change course!

My favorite part from the report is this:

"The state of Kansas must continue to live within its means just as families do every day," Sullivan told reporters Monday. "Our primary focus will be to curtail growth in state spending through additional efficiencies and policy proposals."
For those of you who aren't familiar with why trickle-down policies are not really held in a positive light by liberals, this is it. Republicans enact tax cuts that kill the revenue stream, which makes it difficult to pay for services, which Republicans then shed crocodile tears for and say "Welp, guess we gotta gut all these wonderful poverty programs. What a shame".

This is what the Kansas electorate voted for. Again. But hey, at least Brownback never went to a strip club, right?

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article3729756.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article3729756.html#storylink=cpyBrownback's budget director, Shawn Sullivan, said the administration has no intention of revisiting the state's tax policy, which calls for further income tax cuts through 2018.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article3729756.html#storylink=cpy

Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/11/kansas-economy-gets-even-more-good.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-44735653851596290292014-11-08T04:20:00.000-08:002014-11-08T04:20:47.876-08:00Don't These People Ever Give Up?Republicans continue to valiantly fight in the war against biology:

Legislation that could "open the door" to creationism in public schools has advanced in the Ohio House, the National Science Education Center warns.

Ohio's House Bill 597, approved by the House Rules and Reference committee on Wednesday, would eliminate new multi-state educational standards known as Common Core. But the legislation contains language that could allow school districts to teach creationism or intelligent design in science classes.

As originally written, the bill would have prohibited schools from favoring one "political or religious interpretation" of a scientific fact in favor of another. When asked if that meant schools would be allowed to teach intelligent design alongside the theory of evolution, one of the bill's sponsor replied that "districts will be able to choose based on their judgment."
 Realizing that it was a bad idea to admit what the true goal of this legislation was, we get the eventual backpedal:

Supporters of the bill have since walked back their comments. "Nowhere in the bill does it mention creationism," Rep. Andy Thompson (R-Marietta) said in August.

The idea of teaching creationism/Intelligent Design in biology classes is one of those things that I'm surprised is actually a thing to begin with. Even if it turned out that the theory of evolution was completely wrong, I don't see how the only correct alternative would be the Bible. Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/11/dont-these-people-ever-give-up.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-81303731092371651202014-10-29T03:34:00.002-07:002014-10-29T03:35:26.525-07:00Man Who Doesn't Know How Gravity Works Calls American People "Dumb"Fox News' Bill O'Reilly was a bit annoyed on his show yesterday at the fact that a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll had people trusting Democrats to do a better job handling the nations problems than Republicans (39% to 37%). Bill O' of course had an explanation for this:

"There are two primary reasons for the confusion. First, apathy: we are living in a narcissistic time where individual pursuits override the collective good. And secondly: poor education. As Watters' World proves every week, many American citizens are simply dumb, they don't know anything, and when you don't know anything, you'll buy anything – propaganda rules."
 It's pretty late on my end, so I'll just leave this here:

Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/10/man-who-doesnt-know-how-gravity-works.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-60039865746009346882014-10-21T03:02:00.001-07:002014-10-21T03:20:52.268-07:00Glenn Kessler Demonstrates Once Again How Useless He IsAs much as I dislike right-wing media, at least I know what to expect from their ilk. Conversely, I have far less compassion for so-called "centrist" journalists who ought to know better.

One such example is the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, who runs their "fact checking" division. The other day he decided to take on the accusation from the Democrats that the Republicans have been responsible for cutting funding for the CDC and NIH over the past several years. He gave this claim four Pinnochios, which is the worst level of lying one can achieve on the Fact Checker page.

Needless to say, conservative media outlets all over the intertubes praised Kessler's verdict. Sites like The National Review, Newsbusters, and Hot Air were absolutely giddy that someone from the evil lamestream media was on their side.

As you might have guessed, I took issue with Kessler's analysis.

This is the crux of Kessler's argument:

There's no doubt that spending has been cut, or at least failed to keep pace with inflation, but the fingerprints of both parties are on the knives.
 "Both parties". Why is that the case? Well, most of the cuts that the CDC and NIH have received were due to sequestration, which Kessler blames on the White House for proposing. The implication is that Obama himself wanted brutal cuts to these agencies.

Of course, this is an idiotic assumption.

Just to quickly review, the idea of sequestration manifested when the newly insane Republican congress in 2011 thought it would be fun to blow up the world economy (again). In an attempt to prevent this catastrophe, the idea of sequestration was introduced. Kessler has gone to great lengths to prove that this horrible proposal was Obama's idea.

Though whether it was Obama's idea or not, is completely irrelevant. The point of the sequester was that it would initiate such massive, draconian cuts to all parts of the government, that both sides would be forced to come to some sort of compromise. In other words, this was supposed to be such an awful, horrible idea that no one would actually want it to go through.

Of course, in due time we learned that Republicans thought that this remarkably idiotic initiative wasn't idiotic enough, and decided it was just fine and dandy to keep after all. Obama once again, misjudged how pathologically insane the opposition was.

If a mugger tried to rob someone and they ordered him to hand over all their cash, and the muggee offers to give only half, would anyone in their right mind say that the muggee was the one who wanted to hand over half their cash? Presumably the muggee wouldn't want to have handed over anything. Obama didn't want sequestration. It was a response to Republican threats to burn down the world.

Let's also not ignore the bizarre gloating from right-wing websites because of this article. The big government loving, socialism supporting, most liberal President in history...is the one that wants cuts in government spending, not the Republicans! RNC Chairman, Reince Preibus was bragging about how the Bush Administration spent far more than Obama on the CDC and NIH. Yet do any of these right-wingers want to actually increase funding for these agencies? Of course not! If they did, they would have already done so.

They just simply want to have it both ways. They want to attack Obama for supposedly wanting to cut funding, while not actually doing anything about it. If Obama had any opportunity whatsoever to reverse the sequester cuts, he'd do it in a heartbeat.

Seriously, with useless "centrist" journalists like Glenn Kessler, who needs Michelle Malkin?Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/10/glenn-kessler-proves-once-again-how.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-8685871351933884792014-10-15T02:17:00.001-07:002014-10-15T02:20:08.553-07:00Scott Walker: "We don't have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem!"Wisconsin will probably be seeing a lot of ads featuring this sound bite, I reckon:

"We don't have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem," Walker said during a discussion about raising the minimum wage.

 See, the unemployment rate would be so much better if the unemployed would stop being lazy during a recession. Yeah, that oughta go over real well.

Apparently realizing that wasn't the smartest thing to say, here's Walker's inevitable attempt at damage control:

Walker said that his opponents were taking the comment out of context.

During an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Walker explained that he is seeking to boost workers in two areas. First, he pointed to employers who need trained workers for higher-skilled jobs like welding.

"We have jobs, we don't just have enough people with the skill sets to fill those jobs," he said.
 A bit less derisive than the original statement. Unfortunately, here's Walker again, refuting himself moments later:

Walker also said he wants to help others acquire the basic skills needed to hold down any job. Walker has proposed requiring drug tests for working-age recipients of public benefits.

"Many employers tell us they have work but they can't get people who know how to work and can pass a drug test," Walker said. "That drug test provision is obviously new."

"Again, we've got more than 70,000 job openings" on a state website, Walker added. "But one of the challenges is removing some of the disincentives for people not to work."

"Removing disincentives for people not to work"? Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume Walker wasn't referring to a skills gap after all. Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/10/scott-walker-we-dont-have-jobs-problem.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-64550792303613204552014-10-06T03:15:00.000-07:002014-10-06T03:15:57.803-07:00VIDEO: Steven Crowder and Dana Loesch Destroy Feminist Nazis!Right-wing "comedian", Steven Crowder, teamed up with ex-Breitbart columnist, Dana Loesch to do a thing, apparently:

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You know what? I'm not even really bothered by the inane attempts by these chuckleheads to mock feminists. The most aggravating issue is that right-wingers have no goddamned understanding of the fundamentals of comedy. The directing is completely incompetent, the acting is completely flat, and there's zero sense of comedic timing.

Fortunately for Crowder, Loesch and co., their viewer base couldn't care less about such trivial things.Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/10/video-steven-crowder-and-dana-loesch.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-45941901708272488072014-10-04T17:30:00.000-07:002014-10-04T17:30:36.499-07:00Even Mitt Romney Didn't Think He Could Get The Unemployment Rate To Fall This FastThis is what Presidential silver medalist, Mitt Romney said back in 2012:

"I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate would be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, or perhaps a little lower," he said.
Well, look at that. Seems Mittens thought that even the power of FREEDOM that his policies would unleash wouldn't be enough to get the UE rate down to 6% until 2016. Yet here we are at 5.9% in 2014, two years ahead of schedule, and with more of Obama's job killing tax hikes and regulations in place than in 2012.

By Romney's own standards, he should be glad that he lost the presidency. After all, would he really want to subject the American people to another two years of less than impressive job growth?Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/10/even-mitt-romney-didnt-think-he-could.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-14473136260955966862014-10-04T15:15:00.001-07:002014-10-04T15:15:39.606-07:00So What Did Some Republican Compare To The Holocaust This Time?If you said the separation of Church and State, congratulations, you get a cookie:

After placing his hand on the Bible and taking the oath of office, state Sen. Charles Perry compared what he called the "spiritual battle" brewing across the nation to the Holocaust.

God has a place in the government, Perry explained in his inaugural speech as he vividly recalled a recent trip to a concentration camp in Berlin.

"There were 10,000 people that were paraded into a medical office under the guise of a physical. As they stood with their back against the wall, they were executed with a bullet through the throat. Before they left, 10,000 people met their fate that way," Perry said.

"Is it not the same than when our government continues to perpetuate laws that lead citizens away from God? The only difference is that the fraud of the Germans was more immediate and whereas the fraud of today's government will not be exposed until the final days and will have eternal-lasting effects."

 Yup, having a government that doesn't attempt to prefer one religion over another exactly the same (if not worse) than the systematic killing of an entire race of people.

Also, you would think that if God were so important to the Founding Fathers, they might have bothered to mention him at least once when they were writing that constitution thing.Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/10/so-what-did-some-republican-compare-to.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-72217934355196383652014-09-26T04:21:00.002-07:002014-09-26T04:45:53.134-07:00Conservatives Explain Why Bush's Dog Salute Wasn't As Treasonous As Obama'sSorry for the lack of updates. It's been an incredibly hectic and busy several weeks with my new (very distant) job. I was planning to resume blogging on Saturday, but the latest bit of idiocy from conservatives has motivated me to return ahead of schedule.

I'm sure you've heard of the most recent worst thing ever that President Obama's done. Yes, he insulted the entire military and the ghost of George Washington by saluting to two brave marines with a coffee cup in his hand. As would be expected, the right-wing proceeded to once again, completely lose their shit.

What made this latest "scandal" all the more irritating was that you had real, legitimate, not-completely-shitty, news outlets report on this as well for some odd reason.

As you would expect from generally stupid "controversies" like this, it would only be a matter before liberals brought up examples of heroic, Republican presidents committing the same crime:

To @gatewaypundit & others attacking Obama for saluting Marines with coffee cup in hand, I offer this giant AHEM: pic.twitter.com/EY5BQsk9Qf
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) September 23, 2014

I would have figured by this point conservatives would more than likely never acknowledge what Bush did and get back to whining about BENGHAZI! But no, once again right-wingers manage to exceed my expectations, and proceeded to explain why the two situations are NOTHING alike.

The staff at Twitchy's responded to Sally Kohn's tweet:

And we offer a giant "you are an idiot."

As Twitchy reported, President Obama once again let his disgraceful show when he saluted U.S. Marines with a styrofoam cup. No, really. That happened.

Pitiful libs swiftly tried to protect The One. Because, Bush!!111
Newsbusters' Kyle Drennen:

 Rather then just cover the incident as a gaffe for Obama, the NBC morning show sought to muddy the waters by seizing on a photo of Bush put out by liberal spin doctors and dismiss the whole thing as just another "back and forth" between political partisans.

Breitbart's John Hayward:

 For starters, you don't have to know anything about military protocol to see that holding a live animal is rather different than strolling past the Marines with a styrofoam cup of coffee in your hands.
Also, President Bush is rendering the salute correctly, a detail Kohn apparently couldn't be bothered to research. He's using his right hand while managing his burden with the left. It looks a bit goofy because he's wrestling with a dog and he's got the dog leash wrapped around his arm, but he's clearly making a real effort to show proper respect.

Liberal Logic 101 (this site appears to be quite popular in the world of chain e-mails):

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Yes, Fox News' Todd Starnes does not seem to understand why our racist-in-chief would not offer condolences to the guy who is not currently dead. If Obama did do what Todd wanted, how would that go? "Sorry that Black kid got in the way of your bullets, officer"?

And now that Obama's went ahead and once again offered sympathy to a family of a slain African American teenager, prepare to see the floodgates open for more of this sort of vile, disgusting sewage spewed by every right-wing gasbag in the Party of Lincoln.Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/08/todd-starnes-wonders-why-obama-wouldnt.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-75087766415533660012014-08-09T04:13:00.000-07:002014-08-09T04:13:19.186-07:00Judge Rules Ten Commandments Monument Must GoGood:

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that a New Mexico city must remove a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lawn in front of Bloomfield City Hall.

Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Parker said in his ruling in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that the monument amounts to government speech and has the "principal effect of endorsing religion."

Because of the context and history surrounding the granite monument, Parker said Bloomfield clearly violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. He gave a Sept. 10 deadline for its removal.

The suit was filed in 2012 on behalf of two Bloomfield residents who practice the Wiccan religion.
Peter Simonson, ACLU of New Mexico executive director, called the decision a victory for protection against government-supported religion.

"We firmly support the right of individuals, religious groups, and community associations to publicly display religious monuments, but the government should not be in the business of picking which sets of religious beliefs belong at City Hall," Simonson said Friday.

According to previous court testimony, plaintiff Jane Felix said the display "says that anybody who doesn't agree with this monument on city grounds is an outsider."

"It has no place on City Hall property," Felix said in March.

City attorneys say private individuals erected and paid for the monument under a 2007 city resolution. That resolution allows people to erect historical monuments of their choosing.

 About damn time, I say. It was absurd that the monument managed to stay up as long as it did. The guys who paid for it claimed it was for "historical" purposes, though they seem to be getting history confused with theology.

Definitely good news for supports of separation of Church and State.Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/08/judge-rules-ten-commandments-monument.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-33285677455790939762014-08-03T19:27:00.000-07:002014-08-03T19:34:55.950-07:00Conservative Radio Host Has Had ENOUGH And Actually Goes GaltLet this be a warning to all you tax and spend Democrats:

Twin Cities talk-show host Jason Lewis made a sudden exit from radio Thursday night, quitting in the middle of his syndicated show, heard locally on Clear Channel's KTLK (1130 AM).

Reached Friday morning, the conservative commentator said he decided to end "The Jason Lewis Show" to devote his full attention to his fledgling libertarian website, Galt.io, but also to put his money where his mouth is on taxation and highly regulated businesses.

"There's a tipping point for everyone and for the economy as well," he said. "I'm going to try to make certain [Minnesota Gov.] Mark Dayton gets as little of my money as possible going forward. My ending may have been a bit dramatic, but it's a suitable one, because it's happening all over. If people who take capital risks keep getting demonized, they will stop playing the game."
 Oh no! Please don't leave! How will the world go on without another smug, right-wing asshat whining on the radio about how it's so hard to be a rich, White guy these days?

The story doesn't specify whether Lewis will remain in Minnesota or relocate to a more freedom-y state. But assuming he does stay in Minnesota, I don't really see how he would be making sure that Gov. Mark Dayton "gets as little" of his money as possible. The only way I can see that is if Lewis winds up taking in a smaller paycheck from his newest venture than what he would be getting on his radio show. In which case, I would say, good job socking it to the man! That'll teach him!

Lewis made a 15-minute video that the site calls a "parody of what it is like working in a highly regulated industry and some of the events that led to his decision" to end his show.

Galt.io, named for John Galt, the protagonist of libertarian hero Ayn Rand's 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged," will be a "marketplace for causes," said Lewis, who plans to contribute commentary as well. "We want to reward activism, but have fun as well, offering rewards for points."

The site's members are part of a virtual economy that uses "Galtcoins," earned through dividends, voting and updates, to invest in such causes as supporting the Keystone XL pipeline or contributing to a political candidate's campaign.

The site was launched after an independent crowdfunding campaign last November that raised nearly $800,000, largely on the strength of on-air promotions by Lewis, whose show was carried by more than 50 stations nationwide. According to the site's co-founder and president, tech start-up consultant Alex Huff, most contributions were in the $25 range, with fewer than 10 topping $1,000.

The 7,000-member site had been invitation-only, Lewis said, but the goal is to expand membership and increase capital.

I watched the entire 15 minutes of that "parody" video so you don't have to (the things I do for my viewer base), and here are the lowlights:

- Libertarians/Conservatives to this day still do not understand what a "parody" is supposed to be.
- Seriously, this is just 15 minutes of this smug douchebag walking around, regurgitating right-wing economic talking points.
- Lewis has this female assistant in the beginning who he mocks for not paying any taxes (yes, he's mocking his own employee). But wait, why isn't she paying taxes? Is she an unpaid intern? Cause that would be why, asshole!
- Taxation is theft, as usual.
- He cut off an entire portion of the Ed Show explaining why professional golfer, Phil Mickelson wasn't being accurate about his tax bill, and also why it's in his interest to pay them. Wouldn't want his audience to see that now, would we?
- If you keep taxing all the rich people, there won't be any rich people left to tax.
- The video ends with Lewis abruptly quitting his job at the beginning of his show, completely ignoring his assistant's reaction of being shocked and upset at what will happen to her now that she's unemployed. Just to remind everyone, it's Lewis who we're supposed to be feel sympathetic for in this scene, apparently.

Now if only we can have every right-wing mouth piece on radio and T.V. follow suit, that would really teach that commie Obama a lesson.
Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/08/conservative-radio-host-has-had-enough.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-22783576035308149872014-08-02T03:26:00.000-07:002014-08-02T03:28:40.984-07:00Republicans Refuse To Pass Bill That Honors Pope Francis Because He Sounds Like ObamaFrom the party of Bible thumping, folks:

A popular piece of legislation that seeks to honor Pope Francis is stuck in Congress.

With time running out on the Capitol Hill calendar, the lawmakers who crafted the bipartisan measure are getting impatient with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

The resolution, written by Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Pete King (R-N.Y.), congratulates Francis on his March 2013 election and recognizes "his inspirational statements and actions."

The seemingly innocuous resolution was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which hasn't acted on it. The panel didn't comment for this article.

The inaction and the lack of a white smoke signal from Boehner have sparked speculation that politics is at play.

Only 19 of the 221 co-sponsors are Republicans. The dearth of GOP members on the measure could be attributable to assertions that the pope is "too liberal," according to a Republican backer of the legislation.

The source noted that Francis last year denounced "trickle-down economics."

Some Republicans believe the pope is "sounding like [President] Obama. [The pope] talks about equality — he actually used the term 'trickle-down economics,' which is politically charged," the GOP official said.

I never tire of seeing Republicans turn their backs on religious figures whenever they advocate something that goes against the "correct" Republican teachings of Christianity.

If Republicans are annoyed at Pope Francis for attacking our beloved job creators, imagine how they'll react once they learn about that Jesus Christ fellow.
Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/08/republicans-refuse-to-pass-bill-that.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-34806054341312326512014-08-01T03:01:00.003-07:002014-08-01T03:01:53.432-07:00Dick Morris Says Power Hungry Tyrant Obama Will Probably ResignRemember Dick Morris? He's the toe-sucking little troll who predicted Mitt Romney would win the last election with 325 electoral votes, and a whole slew of other, equally idiotic predictions. The guy was so inept, incompetent, and completely wrong about everything that even Fox News (!) decided to give him the boot.

Fortunately for Dick, he still appears to be respectable enough to warrant interviews from certain other outlets in wingnut media, such as the folks at Newsmax:

President Barack Obama has been criticized for continuing to headline political fundraisers while the country is facing so many crises, but veteran political commentator Dick Morris says the president doesn't seem to care if it hurts his image.

"I think Obama has almost 'cashed-it-in' at far as that goes," Morris told Ed Berliner on "MidPoint" on Newsmax TV Thursday.

"I think he's removed, distracted, aloof," he said.

"If I open the newspaper tomorrow and I learn that Obama resigned, I wouldn't be surprised," Morris added.
 Yes, which is exactly why he's constantly going to those fundraisers that Republicans keep bitching about. Morris continues, with what I assume is supposed to be evidence for why Obama will resign:

Morris also appeared on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV Thursday, telling hosts J.D. Hayworth and John Bachman that the president's ultimate goal is "to convert the United States into a one-party nation . . . where there is only one functioning party and a bunch of splintered opposition parties."

To reach his goal, Obama "is mobilizing all the powers of the federal government to achieve that."

Morris contends that he is doing that through his effort to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants so he can "bring as many Democratic voters into the country as he possibly can," by increasing the number of Americans who are on welfare, by increasing the union rolls "so that they can control their votes and their campaign contributions," by blocking the "filibuster for judicial confirmations . . . so that his executive actions can be approved," by eliminating the Electoral College, and by combating voter ID laws.

Such despotic machinations are totally what you would expect from someone who plans on calling it quits some time next week. The line between Obama and Der Fuhrer blurs with every passing day.

Watch the video below:

Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/08/dick-morris-says-power-hungry-tyrant.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-30159783354736574152014-07-30T04:14:00.001-07:002014-08-01T12:03:55.845-07:00The Newest, Oddest Conspiracy Theory From Republicans On Obamacare: Obama Secretly Agrees With Halbig Decision On SubsidiesHave any of you heard of Gruber-gate? It's the hip, new "scandal" that all the conservative kids are talking about nowadays! See, last week, the U.S. court of appears for the District of Columbia ruled in a 2-1 decision that health insurance subsidies would not be eligible to people who were in states that didn't have a state insurance exchange. This was definitely not good news for President Obama and his allies. Many on the pro-Obamacare side have argued that the rationale for panel's ruling makes no sense whatsoever:

The 4th Circuit has the most plausible, commonsense reading of a badly drafted part of a 2,400-page statute. The alternative is that Congress included in Obamacare the seeds of its own destruction, giving naysaying governors the power to kill it—without ever saying so. The history of passing this law was full of devious twists and turns, but that form of willful self-destruction is not among them.

The anti-Obamacare crowd however, obviously disagreed, and last week some conservative columnists unearthed the smoking gun. Ryan Radia, from the libertarian think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discovered a video of one of Obamacare's leading architects, Jonathan Gruber, seemingly agreeing with the conservative interpretation. The same day, John Sexton at Breitbart released an audio clip of Gruber making the same argument at a different venue. Needless to say, the entire world of conservatism was utterly ecstatic about this brilliant display of ownage. As conservative writer, Moe Lane says:

Possibly the most damning thing about this video is that Jonathan Gruber stated, quite forthrightly, that the decision to deny subsidies to federal exchange policies was deliberate, and designed to push states into starting their own exchanges. That is… extremely unhelpful to the current Democratic narrative.

Now, this might make Gruber and the pro-Obamacare crowd look bad, but this supposed smoking gun managed to do something else as well. It changed the argument that the plaintiffs were using in Halbig, from arguing on technical grounds, to arguing on the original intent of the law's framers.

Therefore, this brings up a question that I haven't really seen anyone ask. If the original intent of the Obama administration was to only allow subsidies to be available to states with their own exchanges, then....shouldn't Obama have been cheering the D.C. court ruling? Think about it. If that was the original plan, then the D.C. court ruling made sure that everything would be going, well, according to plan, right? Why is the Obama administration disputing the decision if that's what they wanted all along?

I've seen some conservatives argue that Obama didn't think that the Republican governments in many states would go through with their threats of not setting up their exchanges, but now that it's apparently clear many still won't, Obama has to pretend he never supported the original idea to begin with.

But that makes no sense. Remember, according to the story revealed in Gruberghazi, the law was supposedly set up so that if Republicans refused to build their own exchanges, the Democrats could then use the fact that the states would be losing millions and billions of dollars in subsidies to attack Republicans.

But guess what? The Democrats can still do that! They can hammer Republicans relentlessly on their decision to screw over the people in their states, and hopefully have them eventually give in. In fact, you would think this was excellent timing because this is something that the Dems can use to attack Republicans in the midterms. The point here is that nothing has changed!

Furthermore, if Republicans truly believe that Obama is lying about the original intent of Obamacare, then they should attempt to call his bluff. Present a bill that would simply change the text of the law to make it clear that subsidies would be available to people on either exchange. If the Republican theory is true, then Obama would refuse to sign it, and then they would have all the proof that they need that Obama, and not them, is the one who really wanted to make getting insurance much harder for poor people.

Of course, they won't do that cause they themselves don't believe the crap they're spewing, and they don't want there to be any fixes to what they see as the worst piece of legislation since the dawn of civilization.Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/07/why-would-obama-administration-fight.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-68600751034062170642014-07-23T04:42:00.000-07:002014-07-23T04:46:44.430-07:00Adam Carolla Thinks School Lunch Programs Will Make Kids Hate Their ParentsFormer The Man Show host, Adam Corolla, explained on his radio show yesterday why he's become more outspoken about politics over the past few years :

Well, you know, I've not changed my tune to any great extent. I think I've become more conservative as I've gotten older, as I've had a family. As people do when they get older and they get older and have a family and pay taxes. You start looking for school systems for their kids that are usable and things like that. There's a move toward a more conservative life in general as you get older. It goes -- many of the principles sort of bode with frankly getting older, having a family, focusing on your children and your family and things like that.
He was doing pretty good so far, but then he makes the mistake of continuing to speak:

But as far as my talking points go, you know, stop shitting out kids you can't afford. You pay for their school breakfast, not because I want you to pay for their school breakfast but because the kid should know that mom and/or dad are paying for breakfast, making the effort. It's a psychological thing, it's not a matter of I don't want to pay 39 cents a day for your kid. I don't give a fuck about that. The fucking government takes half of money and does whatever the fuck it wants with it anyway. I mean, your kid's breakfast is the least of my worries. I worry about your kid and the message that is being sent to your kid by momma not making a breakfast. That's what I a worry about.

Well, now. Isn't that compassionate of him? He cares so much for the kiddies, you see. It's oddly similar to the rationale provided by Republican boy genius, Paul Ryan, a few months back for why we should completely destroy the idea of government funded school lunches. The possibility that many of these parents can't provide lunches as opposed to not wanting to make them for their kids doesn't seem to ever come up in these conversations for some reason.

Carolla speaks from experience though. His family lived off welfare growing up and he himself received government subsidized school lunches:

The lesson seems to be pretty clear. Parents should buy/make their kids their own lunch, otherwise they may grow up to be bitter, right-wing douchebags some day.

What was also amusing was how Carolla was whining about how the word "conservative" is seen as a negative nowadays:

It's bizarre and that's what we have turned it into. But also, it's the left turning conservatism into a pejorative, number one. Being conservative didn't used to be a pejorative in any stretch of the imagination. Being a conservative with your money was being prudent. Being conservative as it pertains to work or investments or even at the poker table it was sort of prudent. Conservative meant prudent; it was not a pejorative.
The left has taken over the word conservative and turned it into a pejorative. So it's like, "Oh, you're a conservative?" They've done a wonderful smear campaign.

"Oh, are you a conservative?" "Yes, I'm a conservative." "Oh, great. You hate women. You hate blacks. You hate all cultures. You love people's money. You hate poor people."
"No, no. I just want to focus on education. I want to focus on hard work. I want to focus on being motivated and getting ahead in a country that made for that ethic…"

Now, it's weird that I can be conservative and never talk about religion. Because conservatives are a bunch of Bible-thumping, you know, brainwashed, you know, they believe the earth is 1,000 years old. How come I'm not religious? I'm an atheist. See, they just pick and choose whatever they want.

Sorry, Adam. You guys are doing a great job ruining that word on your own. You definitely don't need any help from liberals on that front.Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/07/adam-carolla-thinks-school-lunch.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-33677195414464499622014-07-13T21:54:00.000-07:002014-07-13T21:54:25.113-07:00Sorry Republicans, Looks Like Obamacare Is Here To StayHere's a poll that should make every conservative pundit and politician <a href="http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_14053112496886&key=de2ccb8ca8943c06669720e0a267a9f6&libId=b71e4c9a-ea98-40d1-954b-e4c918676e0e&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neogaf.com%2Fforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D854344&v=1&out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2014%2F07%2F10%2Frepublicans-health-insurance_n_5574079.html&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neogaf.com%2Fforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D854344%26page%3D4&title=Shocking%20News%3A%2074%25%20of%20Republicans%20who%20signed%20up%20for%20Obamacare%20are%20pretty%20happy%20-%20NeoGAF&txt=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2014%2F0...n_5574079.html">soil their undies:

Republicans who signed up for Obamacare this year are liking their new insurance coverage, according to a new survey.

A poll of Obamacare enrollees published Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund found that 74 percent of newly insured Republicans are happy with the plans they bought. Overall, 77 percent of people who had insurance prior to the rollout of the Affordable Care Act said they are pleased with the new coverage they obtained in the last year.

The survey revealed the current uninsured rate among working-age adults in the U.S. has dropped to 15 percent, down from 20 percent in July-September 2013 -- meaning an estimated 9.5 million people have gained coverage since then.

74% of Republicans - REPUBLICANS!! - are happy with their new government-defiled health insurance. Just to give you an idea of the significance of such a number, only 21% of Republicans had a positive opinion of Obama after Bin Laden was killed. As Bill Maher once said, Obama could save an average Republican from drowning, and they'd still hate his guts. The fact that we have not just a majority, but nearly 3/4 of Republicans accepting something positive came out of the socialist, Kenyan anti-Christ is a colossal accomplishment.

Truth be told however, this shouldn't really be that surprising. Obamacare, for all its faults, really does have some very pleasing things that make it very attractive to most non-wealthy folks. Indeed this very thing was predicted correctly (for once) <a href="http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_14053127378766&key=de2ccb8ca8943c06669720e0a267a9f6&libId=42ec8cb4-d6bc-4821-ad69-34fd036a5cb4&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neogaf.com%2Fforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D854344%26page%3D2&v=1&out=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fedblog%2Fthe-1993-kristol-memo-on-defeating-health-care-reform&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neogaf.com%2Fforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D854344&title=Shocking%20News%3A%2074%25%20of%20Republicans%20who%20signed%20up%20for%20Obamacare%20are%20pretty%20happy%20-%20Page%202%20-%20NeoGAF&txt=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fedblog%2F...th-care-reform">by Bill Kristol in 1993:

The long term political effects of a successful Clinton health care bill will be even worse — much worse. It will relegitimize middle-class dependency for "security" on government spending and regulation. It will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests. And it will at the same time strike a punishing blow against Republican claims to defend the middle class by restraining government…
Conservative complain all the time about big government not being able to do anything right, and being awful for the populace. But the truth is that the real reason they don't want big government policies to be in place is that they might end up actually being popular. That's what conservatives fear more than anything. They've seen how popular programs like social security and medicare are, and how that makes it much more difficult to eliminate them.

And now conservatives have to face the frightening fact that repealing Obamacare has just gotten significantly more challenging. In a few years, you're going to see right-wing nitwits holding up signs like this:

But with Obamacare instead. Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/07/sorry-republicans-looks-like-obamacare.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-18674956020781541322014-06-26T04:13:00.003-07:002014-06-26T04:19:00.308-07:00Grover Norquist Thinks Song About Man Killing His Wife Is "Pro-Family"You can't make this stuff up:

@Bro_Pair Hendrix: "Hey joe..where you going with that gun in your hand." pro-family, pro-2nd amendment. Janis: anything. Everything.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 26, 2014

According to Grover Norquist, the song "Hey Joe" (which by the way, Jimi Hendrix only did a cover for), is "pro-family" and "pro-2nd amendment". Here are the lyrics so you can judge for yourselves:

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Alright. I'm goin down to shoot my old lady,
you know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.
Yeah,! I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady,
you know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.
Huh! And that ain't too cool.
You don't really have to listen to the song very long to understand that it's about a man planning to kill someone. In this case, his wife. Yes, Grover thinks a song about a man killing his wife with a gun is "pro-family" and "pro-2nd amendment".

Seriously, the guy gives it away in the third fricken line! You hear this in the first 30 seconds. It's kind of hard to miss.

After many twitter users on Grover's feed kindly pointed out this little detail to him, Grover tried to offer a defense:

@RobotCommission @Bro_Pair Do they surgically remove your ability to mock. Great song about a horrible crime. complain to JH.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 26, 2014

@djshiva @Bro_Pair Great song about a horrible crime, you idiot. was I unclear. Complain to JH.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 26, 2014

Okay, now Grover's trying to claim that he knew about the song being about a "horrible crime" the whole time? So where does the whole "pro-family" and "pro-2nd amendment" thing fit in again?

This shouldn't really be shocking, though. After all, the prophet Reagan (peace be upon him) seemed to entirely miss the point of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., so it should come as no surprise that one of his most prominent minions would be equally dense when it comes to comprehending musical verses.Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/06/grover-norquist-thinks-song-about.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-28772160969773505432014-06-25T04:13:00.000-07:002014-06-25T04:29:44.520-07:00Joe Scarborough Forgets Why He Was Supposed to Be Outraged At The IRSOn Tuesday's episode of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough provided yet another wonderful example of why no sentient human being should ever listen to Republican complaints about anything ever.

Scarborough and his panel were once again whining about IRS-gate. Scarborough was particularly perturbed by the New York Times not giving the story the exposure it so rightfully deserved:

You know, if George W. Bush or any Republican and an IRS member that went after Democrats, and then there was an internal investigation launched, you would not have time, or space on the front page to talk about women's issues. This is a scam.
 But later on in the show, a funny thing occurs. Scarbrough says the following:

If it was Henry Waxman or Darrell Issa or whomever, when the IRS gets involved in this sort of play, whether it's against Democrats or Republicans, I think that is the time the Hill should go after him. I'd love to see some Democrats come out and start pounding this guy too. Because there were Democratic groups also targeted as well, right? I slept through three years of law school, but even I know political speech is held to a higher standard.

Did you catch that?

Remember, the entire point of this moronic farce to begin with was that the evil thugs at the IRS were targeting poor, innocent, little conservative organizations. But here's Scarborough whining about the fact that Democrats aren't as outraged as Republicans are at the IRS, despite Democratic organizations being targeted as well. If left leaning organizations weren't able catch a break, and had to be examined closely as well, then what the hell are you guys complaining about?

By admitting that liberal groups were also the victims of scrutiny by the IRS, Scarborough manages to unwittingly destroy the entire original right-wing rationale for this inane "scandal".Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/06/joe-scarborough-forgets-why-he-was.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-74645199213756559972014-06-24T03:31:00.002-07:002014-06-24T04:10:09.442-07:00GOP Rep Suggests IRS Conspiracy Might Not Involve ObamaIt appears that IRS-gate, a scandal that's way worse than illegally selling thousands of missiles to terrorists, has been given new life since it was revealed that former IRS official, Lois Lerner, traveled back in time to destroy a hard drive that held indisputable evidence of IRS' insidious plot to inconvenience Right-wing organizations applying for tax exemptions.

Today we had yet another hearing, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC). He provided a head scratching comment when he was grilling current IRS commissioner, John Koskinen.

Koskinen was getting noticeably irritated by Gowdy's inane questions, and tried to explain to him that he saw no evidence of wrongdoing by either Lois Lerner or the White House. This led to the following exchange (skip to 5:18):

Koskinen: It's a good argument. All I said was the White House has revealed there were no Lois Lerner e-mails, Treasury has given you all their e-mails, but to the extent that the argument was that Lois Lerner was conspiring and e-mailing back and forth, thus far I haven't seen any...

Gowdy: You can be engaged in a conspiracy that doesn't include the White House.
Guh?

What are we supposed to make of that line? There was a conspiracy involved to make conservative groups sad, and it didn't involve direct orders from Obama? This makes no sense because seconds earlier Gowdy was whining about the Obama administration sticking their noses in this "scandal", with Gowdy clearly implying that the only reason they would do that is to cover their tracks.

But let's pretend for a minute that Gowdy doesn't think the White House wasn't involved. If that was the case, then whose orders was Lois Lerner acting on? 'Or was she leading this operation?

Of course, it is quite possible that Lois Lerner, and a few other IRS agents were acting independently, but that would be a fairly boring scandal, now wouldn't it? Let's not pretend for a second that Gowdy and his ilk aren't trying their damndest to implicate Obama for this some how. After all, Gowdy's clownish colleague, Darryl Issa, isn't.Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/06/gop-rep-suggests-irs-conspiracy-might.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-9896951899673945192014-06-23T04:45:00.000-07:002014-06-23T04:52:12.135-07:00Twitter Wars: Conan O'Brien VS. Grover Norquist!So Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist offered a suggestion for a possible name change for the Washington Redskins, one that should surprise no one:

Washington, D.C., anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who has been on a long campaign to name pretty much everything after Ronald Reagan, said renaming Washington's football team the "Washington Reagans" is a "great idea."

...

"This is a great idea," Norquist told BuzzFeed when asked about chatter about the new name on social media. "The former Redskins can be the Ronald Reagans on winning years and the Nancy Reagans on losing years. Unless that gets us in more trouble elsewhere."
The bolded is a really nice touch. It helps perpetuate the fanatically religious belief that the Gipper could do no wrong. Ever.

As it happens, late night comedian, Conan O'Brien decided to comment on Grover's suggestion:

Grover Norquist wants to rename the Redskins, the "Washington Reagans." So they'll at least be able to beat Grenada.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) June 20, 2014

 This led to a little back and forth between the two:

And Soviet Union MT @ConanOBrien: Grover Norquist wants to rename the Redskins, the " Reagans." So they'll at least be able to beat Grenada.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 20, 2014

.@GroverNorquist Sorry, Soviet Union technically happened under G.H.W. Bush. But I'll give you Gaddafi's tent.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) June 20, 2014

Newsflash: Andrew Johnson wins Civil War. RT @ConanOBrien: .@GroverNorquist Sorry, Soviet Union technically happened under G.H.W. Bush.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 20, 2014

.@GroverNorquist Right on all counts, Grover. And Warren Harding kicked the Spanish Flu's ass.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) June 21, 2014

So Truman won World War Two? Not FDR? RT @ConanOBrien: .@GroverNorquist Sorry, Soviet Union technically happened under G.H.W. Bush.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 20, 2014

Lots to chew on in those tweets. But Conan should know very well that without Reagan, the Soviet Union would never have fallen. I mean, it's not like conservatives have ever made the claim that communism was a highly flawed economic system that would never work and was destined to crumble or anything.

Also, too. Grover also sent out this other tweet which led to an exchange of my own:

"Tax and spend" creates jobs the same way taking a bucket of water from a lake and pouring it back in "stimulates" the lake to great depth.
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@GroverNorquist There was also that whole thing with gov spending getting us out of the Great Depress. but maybe it was the freedom fairies
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@RIFSnobs Really gov spending onNew Deal helped depression? When did private sector jobs rebound? Stock market? What happened in 1938?
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@GroverNorquist You're forgetting that one other big government spending program: World War II.
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For some reason he didn't respond to that. And here I thought I made a new friend. Alas.Xenoshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/06/twitter-wars-conan-obrien-vs-grover.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-6442492755967726142014-06-13T12:07:00.000-07:002014-06-13T12:07:06.245-07:00Mitch McConnell: The Democrats Are Secret Republicans!Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) provides a rather odd defense for why he voted against Sen. Warren's student loan relief bill:

"The Senate Democrats' bill really isn't about students at all, its really all about Senate Democrats, because Senate Democrats don't actually want a solution for their students, they want an issue to campaign on to save their own hides this November," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Of course, this is an incoherent mess. Democrats don't actually want to pass this bill that helps our poor people with student loan debt, and that's financed by taxing the wealthy? The only way for that to make sense is that Democrats are in fact, secret Republicans who don't truly want to pursue the class warfare policies that Republicans have claimed Democrats have wanted to do for the past few decades.

But just to pretend McConnell is serious for a nanosecond, if he truly believes what he claims, then shouldn't he and his Republican alllies have voted for the bill? If McConnell truly believed the crap that he's spewing, he would have called the Dems bluff, but obviously he didn't, cause he himself doesn't want that to pass.

This isn't surprising of course. As I'm mentioned in the past, this sort of thing happens occasionally. Republicans realize they may not be on the side of most of the public on a given issue, so they have to resort to a bit of Karl Rovian political jiu-jitsu. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan attempted a similar gambit during the election by hilariously claiming that it was noted socialist dictator, Barack Hussein, and not they who truly wanted to eliminate the crown jewel of socialized health care after all.Xenoshttp://email@example.com://www.readingisforsnobs.com/2014/06/mitch-mcconnell-democrats-are-secret.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44283294086887651.post-75015617089803910162014-05-23T02:59:00.002-07:002014-05-23T03:25:27.302-07:00Welfare Recipient Ben Carson Complains About Welfare Recipients On The ViewWonderful. I was planning on going to sleep early today cause I have to wake up early for my second job, but that was before it was brought to my attention that Dr. Ben Carson, AKA, Herman Cain Jr. (God willing) was being an idiot again.

Carson went on The View earlier today and when discussing the topic of losers living on welfare had this to say:

When you rob someone of their incentive to go out there and improve themselves, you are not doing them any favors. When you take somebody and pat them on the head and say, 'There, there, you poor little thing. … Let me give you housing subsidies, let me give you free health care because you can't do that.' What would be much more empowering is to use our intellect and our resources  to give those people a way up and out."

He said this in front of The View co-host, Whoopi Goldberg, herself being a welfare mother. As you could probably guess, doing such a thing made the wingnutosphere go wild with joy.

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He might or might not run for president, but there isn't a better spokesman for conservative values in America today.
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Ben Carson took to "The View" stage this week to explain to his mostly liberal hosts and largely liberal audience just why the liberal-driven welfare system stinks — and he emerged not only unscathed, but a big winner.
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But I must say, that after watching this interview, he might be closer to a presidential type than I had originally thought.

See here's the thing, though. It turns out that for some strange reason, the evil welfare system didn't seem to destroy the incentive for his own mother to go out and make things better for her and her family:

No doubt, Mother Carson deserves tremendous credit, but – in the words of a political sound bite from the last presidential election – she didn't do it alone. Carson, in his book, tells how his grades improved tremendously when a government program provided him with free eyeglasses because he could barely see. Not only that, in "Gifted Hands" we read this nugget: "By the time I reached ninth grade, mother had made such strides that she received nothing but food stamps. She couldn't have provided for us and kept up the house without that subsidy."

Well, isn't that interesting? Ah, but you see, Carson has an excuse as to why the situation with his mother is completely different from the situations with everyone else currently on welfare:

It's hard not to see Carson's own upbringing coming into view here. He grew up in meager surroundings in Detroit and Boston, in a family that made use of public assistance programs like food stamps. The culture was different then, Carson insists. "I think there was a time when people were not proud of taking handouts," he said. "There were more people who did have that drive and determination. You do what you have to do."
So according to Carson, it's okay to accept government assistance as long as you feel bad about it. And he seems to think that nobody who is on welfare today feels shame, cause apparently nobody seems to demonize it or anything. But even so, what about all that stuff about self reliance and bootstrapping and whatnot? Once you accept government aid, doesn't Ronald Reagan begin weeping from White Heaven?

He goes on to say:

Did food stamps allow me to achieve my dream?" He laughed. "Of course not."

 Directly contradicting what he said in his book:

He writes elsewhere, "As I've said, we received food stamps and couldn't have made it without them."

The depressing thing about all this is that conservatives won't see this inconvenient little bit of history as an example of hypocrisy. Why? Because while Carson himself may have grown up on welfare, he's now espousing policies that make sure other people can't get on welfare, so it's totally cool (this is an actual defense that I've seen thrown around by right-wing bloggers, by the way). After all, did the fact that former vice presidential candidate and child prodigy, Paul Ryan supported himself with the social security benefits of his deceased father hurt his status as a conservative ubermensch in the least? Of course not. And it won't hurt Carson either.

Watch the interview:

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I took a nap after breakfast to make up for the 4.30am arrival, then when I woke up (noonish) I wandered out into the local neighbourhood in search of lunch. I found a rather stylish, small sushi bar so popped in for a look. The waitress handed me the menu card with not a syllable of English on it, so I smiled and said sushi?. She was all bows and said sushi set-o?, which sounded just the ticket. I showed her a credit card & she nodded again (I couldnt see any prices, so wanted to make sure I wouldn't be left high & dry.) After a warm up of tea, pickles, then miso soup, a plate of sushi arrived which was absolutely delicious. I'm a big fan of sushi. Living in London you can get passable sushi at a price, but it remains one of the things I miss most about San Francisco. This sushi, however, was in a different league altogether so I can see myself making this a habit.
The bill arrived and it was Y950. I was amazed as I thought there were about 100 yen to the US dollar, so checked online when I got back to the hotel, where I found out that its currently even less than that. My little spread cost just £4.25 all in (about eight bucks.) Consequently, I'm now deeply confused about Tokyo pricing. I just checked my hotel room mini-bar as a reference point and found that a miniature of Bombay Saphire costs Y1250 (ten bucks.) A bowl of cornflakes on room service costs Y945 (plus tip, plus10% delivery charge) and a bottle of 1995 Dom Perignon weighs in at a mighty Y84,000, or about four hundred quid. I'm left feeling rather chuffed with myself for having eked out such a killer sushi bargain. Mind you, I could easily have eaten that lunch twice over, (or very possibly three times for dinner,) but my surplus of manners and total lack of vocabulary prevented me from doing so today. I may work up to it tomorrow.
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Millet Couscous with Roasted Carrots
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Carrot-Coconut SoupIf you like things extra spicy, pass some chili sauce at the table.


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• This robot begins to walk when it detects a change in light intensity or sound commands (such as clapping)
• Quick to assemble and requires no soldering
• Ages 13 and up
Owi Moon Walker II, a robot that can detect light and sound. Built by OWI, this robot begins to walk when it detects a change in light intensity or sound commands (such as clapping). MOON WALKER continues it's four legged voyage until instructed by an internal timer to stop. This kit presents an engaging opportunity to learn about some of the mechanics, operation and history of robots. In addition, this fabulous robot allows you to experiment in a fun way light and sound sensors. There is nothing better for those who dream about robots colonizing the moon or Mars. This kit for intermediate roboticians is perfect to increase your knowledge in construction of walking robots.
Simple hand tools required for assembly (screw driver, pliers).
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Owi Moon Walker II Robot Kit (no soldering)USD $42.95
Follow Me Robot KitUSD $26.95
Beetle Robot KitUSD $44.99
OWI-535 Robotic Arm EdgeUSD $44.29
Dagu Caterpillar Robot KitUSD $177.48
ST-10 Electronic Hand Tool KitUSD $9.95


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