November 20, 2014

President Obama, we have your back!

I have family, friends and students who will be personally affected by what our president will today on immigration. The GOP is determined to continue to define themselves as hateful obstructionists who don't care who the leave in the wake of destruction. President Obama and the Democrats are the good guys and we have their backs - because they have ours.

God Bless America.

November 17, 2014

I wonder if Kassig refused to read ISIS propaganda statement before his murder.

That would explain its absence. Just speculation. But can you imagine the strength that would take, given what these hostages have been subjected to according to other hostages who have been released?

November 15, 2014

Some people are obsessed with HRC

Karl Rove has been for years now. The thought of her candidacy drives him nuts. I had forgotten how much the Clintons get under the right people's skin. Go Hillary!

November 13, 2014

Collection of Polling for the 2016 primary. Clinton waaaay out front in all polls.

Sanders 1%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_Democratic_Party_2016_presidential_primaries

November 12, 2014

here is some ACA irony for you.

I figure the success of the Kentucky exchange makes Turtle man less likely to genuinely screw with it, it also means Turtle Man's constituency gets to keep their subsidies even if the Supremes gut the subsidies in the red states with federally run exchanges.

November 12, 2014

hard to believe it has been eight years since this chaged everything

Wonder how meant people actually invested in it.

November 12, 2014

anyone who says my "tribalism" has overcome my "moral compass" has pretty much lost my attention

Fuck this guy. His assessment sucks. You asked.

November 12, 2014

the horror

Iguala police fired on the students in two incidents, killing six people. Officers then allegedly turned over 43 arrested students to a local drug gang. Murillo Karam said members of the gang confessed to killing the students before burning their bodies and tossing the ashes and bone fragments into a river.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/frustration-boils-over-in-mexico-amid-news-missing-students-are-dead/

November 9, 2014

pope demotes outspoken conservative american cardinal

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-demotes-outspoken-american-conservative-cardinal/ar-AA78KoQ?ocid=iehp


At a meeting of bishops from around the world last month, Burke was the flag-bearer for conservatives opposed to the Church adopting a more welcoming attitude towards homosexuals.

Burke has publicly clashed with the pope several times since the Argentine pontiff's election in 2013 and Vatican sources have said the pope saw Burke's outspokenness as part of the so-called "culture wars" among Catholics that he wants to avoid.

During the synod, Burke assailed German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who had argued that the Church should modify teachings that ban Catholics who have divorced and then remarried in civil services from receiving communion.

November 8, 2014

reality tv reaches some new level of something

a filmmaker and naturalist, built a custom snake-proof suit so he could be devoured by an anaconda for a Discovery Channel television special. A YouTube promo for the Dec. 7 special — titled, predictably, "Eaten Alive" — shows Rosolie stalking an anaconda, otherwise minding its own business, before it presumably attacks


http://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/Man-to-be-eaten-by-anaconda-during-Discovery-5876391.php