The President should order the Justice Department to charge Snyder and his personally appointed "manager" of Flint with criminal negligence.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has asked President Barack Obama to issue an emergency and major disaster declaration amid a drinking water crisis in Flint that began months ago.

Snyder's office said in a statement late Thursday night it had asked for the declarations and is seeking additional federal aid for both individuals and public agencies involved in the effort to provide Flint residents with clean drinking water.

Flint's tap water became contaminated with too much lead after the city switched its water supply in 2014 to save money while under state financial management. Local officials declared a public health emergency in October. Residents already are being urged to use drinking water filters, which are being distributed for free along with bottled water.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/snyder-asks-obama-emergency-declaration-water-crisis-054223136.html

Like every fucking bullshit Christian, the solution to poverty was the free market for Robertson, not actual programs. So where the fuck does Brooks get his information when he says, "The best conservatism balances support for free markets with a Judeo-Christian spirit of charity, compassion and solidarity." No. Jesus doesn't say jackshit about free markets. He says take care of the poor. You can pretend that's Christian because you happen to be a free market conservative who believes Christian hoodoo, but that doesn't mean it's "Christian" in the sense of, you know, Christ, the biblical dude

Other have dealt with Cruz's contemporaries who Brooks views as better Christians (really, David? Mike Huckabee? Jesus would turn that hateful cockknob inside out and dance with his organs). To return to Robertson, after his campaign was finally over, George Bush and Dan Quayle had to kiss fundamentalist ass to get endorsements, pressing their lips to the bright white buttocks of Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The Christian Coalition became a presence in American politics throughout the 1990s. Their existence and their bitch members of Congress were a big reason we had to go through the fucking Clinton impeachment nightmare. And those taintfleas all but accused then First Lady Hillary Clinton of being a witch and demanding her burning. Brooks writes, "Evangelicals and other conservatives have had their best influence on American politics when they have proceeded in a spirit of personalism — when they have answered hostility with service and emphasized the infinite dignity of each person. They have won elections as happy and hopeful warriors." No, they didn't. They won as hateful motherfuckers who only want everyone else to fuck their mothers just like them. Actually, the evangelicals who do give a shit about the poor are liberals and would rather be crucified than vote for Republican jackals and whores.

Ted Cruz isn't an anomaly in his "brutalism," as Brooks puts it. He's modern Christian fundamentalism's perfect example. (Note:

Don't google "armpit fucking" unless you want to see men fucking armpits.)

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Christie boasts of saving N.J. economy

TRENTON — Boasting about saving New Jersey from the brink of economic calamity, Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday credited Republican principles and his bold leadership with making the state "strong and growing stronger every day."

In a State of the State address aimed at a national audience as he campaigns for president, Christie also warned the state's gains are in jeopardy if the Democratic-controlled state Legislature strays from the path he forged over the last six years...

....Still, New Jersey is experiencing the eighth slowest job growth of any state in the nation and is one of 13 states that have not recovered all their jobs lost during the Great Recession. The Garden State only recovered 82 percent of the jobs it lost since the state of the recession, having been outpaced by neighboring New York and Pennsylvania — which both regained the lost jobs and then some.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/christie_state_of_the_state_2016_6th.html

He also talked about addiction while ignoring his own addiction...will he support stomach banding for all overweight people in NJ?

He always looks like he's about to nod of into a drug-induced coma. If food stamp recipients have to be tested, shouldn't the same be true for presidential candidates?

CINCINNATI (AP) — Police in Cincinnati say a man has fatally shot his 14-year-old son in their home, thinking he was an intruder.

Police say the man thought his son had caught the bus for school Tuesday morning, but the teen returned home soon afterward. Police say the man heard a noise in the basement and checked on it with a gun in his hand. Police say the father fired after apparently being startled, hitting the boy in the neck.

Authorities say the father called 911 and the boy was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where he died Tuesday morning.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cincinnati-man-kills-son-intruder

As the Donald Trump phenomenon endures, it’s become fashionable to make a certain kind of excuse for the boorishness of his backers, if not The Donald himself.

“Don’t blame them” is the theme of front-page stories and much-discussed magazine essays. The economy left them behind, the world doesn’t work like they were promised it would as young people, and we have to understand. They’re angry, and should be.

Well, bull...

--the author explains why at this link--

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-downtrodden-supporters-dont-deserve-our-sympathy-2016-01-12?link=MW_home_latest_news

designed to coopt Democratic Party winning issues. Total crap!

As we know from 9/11, skyscrapers melt and collapse after fires like this.