October 10, 2015

Anyone watch Bill Maher last night on Real Time?

Do you think he was mean when he told conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, " enough about your mother."

They were talking about big pharmaceutical companies and he went to say his mother suffers from depression and uses anti depressants, then Maher said, "ok enough about your mother"

October 8, 2015

Rep. Paul Ryan on House speaker's job: Thanks, but no thanks

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/08/rep-paul-ryan-wisconsin-house-speakers-job-thanks-but-no-thanks/73588750/


WASHINGTON — When Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced he was withdrawing his candidacy for House speaker Thursday, eyes quickly turned to the next logical candidate, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, a former GOP vice presidential nominee who has earned respect among the mainstream and conservative wings of the party.

Even McCarthy told National Review on Thursday, “I personally want Paul Ryan.”

But almost as quickly — within the hour — Ryan’s office blasted out a statement saying thanks, but no thanks.

"While I am grateful for the encouragement I’ve received, I will not be a candidate,” he said.

Since he was the vice presidential nominee in 2012, Ryan has consistently been cited as a possible candidate for higher office, including for president earlier this year. Each time, he has passed, saying he wants to stay put. He reiterated that stance Thursday.

“I continue to believe I can best serve the country and this conference as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee,” Ryan said.

October 8, 2015

The new stupid.....

Ben Carson Blames Holocaust On Gun Control


The Anti-Defamation League says these sorts of comments are "historically inaccurate and offensive."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-holocaust-gun-control_5616a7aee4b0082030a185c2

Ben Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, blamed the Holocaust on Nazi gun control in an interview on CNN Thursday.

Host Wolf Blitzer read a section from Carson's book, A More Perfect Union, in which Carson writes:

German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s Hitler's regime had mercilessly slaughtered six million Jews and numerous others whom they considered inferior ... Through a combination of removing guns and disseminating deceitful propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.
"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson elaborated in the interview. "There's a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first."

The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors and responds to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has long opposed the use of Nazi comparisons in the U.S. gun control debate. "The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families," Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director at the time, said in 2013.

The 1938 law did ban Jews from owning guns. But as the ADL explained in 2013, "the small number of personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany’s Jews (about 214,000) remaining in Germany in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German state," which eventually conquered most of Europe.

October 8, 2015

Rupert Murdoch: Carson could be ‘a real black president’

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday said Republican Ben Carson would be “a real black president,” implying doubts about President Obama’s connection to minorities.

The chairman and CEO of News Corporation tweeted Wednesday night: “Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else.”

As though anticipating questions about Obama, Murdoch tweeted moments later with a call to read a New York Magazine article titled “The Paradox of the First Black President.”

Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) October 8, 2015
Read New York magazine for minority community disappointment with POTUS

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) October 8, 2015


Murdoch has made a habit of tweeting positive things about Carson. He wrote last week: “Everywhere pundits keep underestimating Ben Carson. But public understand humility as admirable, listen to the multi-faceted strong message.”

He also touted a poll that had Carson ahead of Donald Trump, who has been leading most GOP presidential primary polls in recent months.

In September, Murdoch said Carson was “maybe the one to beat” and “irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision.”

He also compared Carson favorably to Obama on race, writing: “2 stories. Carson, Detroit ghetto to brilliant neurosurgeon. Obama white upbringing to community organizer. Sincere men, different values.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/256317-rupert-murdoch-carson-could-be-a-real-black-president



** So only black Presidents are required to address the racial divide?** STFU