Why Speaker Ryan can’t be ‘trusted’ on Obama and immigration

When it comes to comprehensive immigration reform, everything old is new again. All the obstruction and careless rhetoric about not trusting the president flung around by former House speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was picked up by new Speaker Paul Ryan. And just because the Wisconsin congressman says it with such conviction doesn’t make what he says true.

Ryan made his unprompted assertion during an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press.”

The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue, because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself. Presidents don’t write laws. Congress does. The president’s proven himself to be untrustworthy on this issue. I think if we reach consensus on something like border enforcement, interior security, that’s one thing. But I do not believe we should advance comprehensive immigration legislation with a president who’s proven himself untrustworthy on this issue.

Let’s unpack this, shall we.


“The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue, because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself.” The speaker is referring to the executive actions the president took a year ago this month to address some of the festering issues around illegal immigration.

“Presidents don’t write laws. Congress does.” Thanks to “Schoolhouse Rock,” we all know that that is how it is supposed to work. In fact, that’s how it did work in 2013 when the bipartisan Gang of Eight (four Republicans and four Democrats) in the Senate cobbled together a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill that passed with an astounding 68 votes. And then the legislation went to the House.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/11/02/why-speaker-ryan-cant-be-trusted-on-obama-and-immigration/

Meanwhile, in Moscow...

Russia has been invaded by hipster scum:



https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/661299711823998977
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2015/11/02/novelty-toilet-themed-cafe-opens-in-moscow/

‘YOU ARE A LYING B*TCH!': Truthers attack grieving mom’s book about her Sandy Hook son

Sandy Hook truthers have swarmed the Amazon reviews of a book written by the mother of a 6-year-old massacre victim, accusing her of “Fraud, Treason, And Tyranny.”

Scarlett Lewis is the mother of Jesse Lewis, a first grader who was murdered along with 25 others — mostly little children — when a mass shooter went on a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary in December of 2012. She penned a book about her grief journey, called Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother’s Journey of Hope and Forgiveness.

But according to the Seattle Times, instead of receiving support after enduring an unthinkable loss, conspiracy theorists have come out in force to malign Lewis.

A quick scan of her Amazon page reveals numerous comments claiming Lewis is lying and urging readers to watch the conspiracy theory video, “We Need to Talk About Sandy Hook,” which is posted to YouTube.

One poster on Amazon calling themselves “Operation Truth,” wrote:

“DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK !! This book is based on pure lies. The Sandy Hook Elementary did not have a school shooting, this was a Hoax that was used to create laws under false pretense !! Instead of buying this book, research the video called “We need to talk about Sandy Hook” And here’s the best part… It’s FREE to watch the video. These people are profiting off of LIES, and they are erasing truth from history. This is Fraud, Treason, And Tyranny.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/you-are-a-lying-btch-truthers-attack-grieving-moms-book-about-her-sandy-hook-victim-son/#.VjZ45Ry3PL0.twitter

There isn't a level of hell low enough for these assclowns...

Russian police raid Crimea Tatar TV channel, journalist homes

SIMFEROPOL (AFP) - Russian police searched the offices of a Tatar TV channel in Crimea early Monday as well as homes of its employees as part of a new probe, the latest actions against the once popular network which was forced to go off air in April.

"About 20 armed men from the FSB (security service) came to my house at 5:30 am and seized all documents, computers and telephones," said Lilia Budzhurova, the deputy director of ATR channel, adding that her lawyer was not allowed to be present.

The FSB said in a statement distributed via Russian news agencies that the probe had been launched on October 22 against Lenur Islyamov, who owns the channel and other assets in Crimea.

Police also went to homes of other journalists and their relatives, she said, and the search was ongoing at the offices of ATR in Simferopol, the main city of the peninsula, Budzhurova, who also works as a reporter for AFP, said.

The police actions are related to an "extremism" probe launched against Islyamov, Budzhurova added.

http://www.france24.com/en/20151102-russian-police-raid-crimea-tatar-tv-channel-journalist-homes?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-11-02&dlvrit=66745

Don’t Believe Russian Airline’s New Excuse for Crash

A spokesman for the Russian airline Kogallymavia, or Metrojet, whose jet crashed in Egypt, said Monday that the cause was “external influences.” But within hours, an investigator told Reuters that there is no evidence of an external impact on the Airbus 321 and that the pilot did not make a distress call.

“The plane was in excellent condition,” Alexander Smirnov said. “We rule out a technical fault and any mistake by the crew.”

The airline is insisting that its own maintenance and safety procedures cannot have been at fault, but they are not denying that the airplane broke up in the air at 31,000 feet. Instead, the airline is saying that they don’t believe that a mechanical or technical fault in the Airbus, for which they would be responsible, was the cause.

While nobody can yet be sure of the cause, new images from the crash site confirm that the main part of the wreckage and the tail section were three miles apart. The aerial footage taken by RT shows the wings to have been intact on impact.

This reinforces the belief that the tail was severed from the rest of the airplane at the point when it broke up and fell separately. It all happened in 25 seconds: the A320’s fate was very sudden, as revealed in data released by FlightRadar24.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/02/don-t-believe-russian-airline-s-new-excuse-for-crash.html

The Sexy Spy in the Vatican

VATICAN CITY — For many inside the Vatican, Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui was trouble from the start. The willowy 32-year old brunette raised eyebrows almost immediately in 2013 when, at 30, she was handpicked by Pope Francis as the only lay woman on an eight-member advisory panel called the Commission for Reference on the Organization of the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See.

On Monday, the Vatican confirmed that Chaouqui, along with a Spanish monsignor named Lucio Vallejo Balda, who was the secretary of COSEA, had been arrested for leaking documents to journalists.

Sound familiar? It should. In 2012, Pope Benedict’s butler Paolo Gabriele was arrested for just the same crime, and the butler was charged with leaking to just the same journalist, Gianluigi Nuzzi, who has a new book coming out this week.

His previous book, His Holiness, is widely believed to be the last straw that led to the eventual resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. God (and likely Chaouqui) only knows what his new book, called Via Crucis in Italian and Merchants in the Temple in English, will reveal when it hits bookstores Thursday. Nuzzi tells The Daily Beast that Chaouqui did not collaborate on this, or any, of his books. But he told us the same thing about the butler, too.

Though Chaouqui’s resume is impressive at face value, with stints at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Ernst & Young, she didn’t quite fit the Vatican mold. She was a devout Catholic, sure, but she had tweeted a number of questionable missives that didn’t sit well with the ruling Vatican elite at the time, including how she thought that the Holy See’s then-secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was “corrupt,” and how Italy’s finance minister Giulio Tremonti was “un gay,” who she implied was quite well known along the Vatican’s gay lobby and for which Tremonti later sued her for slander.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/02/did-anti-francis-cabal-plant-a-sexy-spy-in-the-vatican.html

Glenn Greenwald's anti-Hillary vendetta continues unabated: