Monday, June 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby:   WTF?

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that certain "closely held" for-profit businesses can cite religious objections in order to opt out of a requirement in ObamaCare to provide free contraceptive coverage for their employees.

The 5-4 decision, in favor of arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby and one other company, marks the first time the court has ruled that for-profit businesses can cite religious views under federal law.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion in the ObamaCare case, finding the contraceptive mandate in its current form "unlawful." The court's four liberal justices dissented.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday afternoon that the decision "jeopardizes the health of women who are employed by these companies," but said the administration would respect the ruling.

"We will work with Congress to make sure that any women affected by this decision will still have the same coverage of vital health services as everyone else," he said.   Earnest did not get into specifics, saying they are still assessing the decision and trying to determine which companies are affected.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Ann Coulter: Soccer is Un-American!

Here's what Ms. Coulter had to say about the World Cup!
"I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade…or about the length of the average soccer game…so as not to offend anyone.   But enough is enough.   Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
"Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer.   In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls…all in front of a crowd.   When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate.   But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks."

"In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway.   There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised."  

"There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms.   Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.   No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level."

"I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton."

"One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it."

"Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European.   Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine."

"If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law.   I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer.   One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time."

You can read her entire WACKO post here!

FOOTNOTE:
Ann Coulter is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.   She rose to prominence in the 1990s as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration.
Well known for her unapologetic conservative political opinions and the controversial ways in which she presents and defends them, Coulter likes to "stir up the pot", and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Dick(HEAD) Cheney...Even FOX News Agrees?


Holy sh*t...even FOX News is on board with this!!!   They ALL (DickHEAD, Rumsfield, and Dubya) should be dragged to the World Court!

I think she let him off easy (but I didn't see the whole interview).   He is a war monger and a war profiteer...nothing else!   Oh...and he is evil!

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Dick(HEAD) Cheney...WAR CRIMINAL!!!


Per Mr. Dick(HEAD)...
"Our enemies no longer fear us.   Our allies no longer trust us.   Empty threats, meaningless redlines, leading from behind, and 'engagement' with rogue regimes, have put America on a path of decline.   Threats to America’s security are on the rise.   Iran is marching towards a nuclear weapon.   Al Qaeda is resurgent, establishing new safe havens across the Middle East, including in Iraq where President Obama withdrew all American forces with no stay behind agreement.   He has announced he intends to [do] the same in Afghanistan.   Syria has become the most dangerous training ground for Islamic terrorists since the attacks of 9/11."

My 2 cents...
WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction)?   NO!   Halilburton?   Yes!
You, Rumsfield and Dubya ought to be charged with war crimes!

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Judges Are Attacking Christianity!

As I've said on repeated occasions...you just can't make this sh*t up!

Paul Krugman - "Obama...Yes He Could"!!!

Mr Krugman has, on occasion, been critical of President Obama but here's his latest...

"Several times in recent weeks I’ve found myself in conversations with liberals who shake their heads sadly and express their disappointment with President Obama.   Why?   I suspect that they’re being influenced, often without realizing it, by the prevailing media narrative.

The truth is that these days much of the commentary you see on the Obama administration — and a lot of the reporting too — emphasizes the negative: the contrast between the extravagant hopes of 2008 and the prosaic realities of political trench warfare, the troubles at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the mess in Iraq, and so on.   The accepted thing, it seems, is to portray Mr. Obama as floundering, his presidency as troubled if not failed.

But this is all wrong. You should judge leaders by their achievements, not their press, and in terms of policy substance Mr. Obama is having a seriously good year.   In fact, there’s a very good chance that 2014 will go down in the record books as one of those years when America took a major turn in the right direction."

Read the full article at the New York Times!

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Happy Father's Day!

My Mom and Dad divorced in 1955.   I believe divorce was a rarity in those days.   I was only nine years old, but among my sphere of family and friends, I didn't know anyone else whose parents were divorced.   Not in my neighborhood; at school; at church (I used to attend back then) or anywhere else!

Back then divorce was a "hush hush" subject.   You just didn't speak about it or ask any questions.   Eventually my Mom said that Dad moved out of our Bronx apartment because it was too small and they wanted us to have our own room.   As a nine year old...I bought that line/logic/excuse...hook, line and sinker!

As I grew older, and even to this day, I would love to know what actually drove them apart...but, at this stage in my life, I know I never will.

So on this Father's day, I do think about the past, but I'm focused on the present and the future!   I'm blessed with two wonderful/awesome daughters (and their spouses) and an "over the top" grandson who calls me "Dude"!

And...I'm happy!   With that said...Happy Father's Day!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

A Raisin in the Sun & Much...Much More!


R.I.P. Ruby Dee!

Texas Politics & Their Politicians!

Does the oil from their wells leak into their drinking water?

Words of Wisdom from Govenor Rick Perry!

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaking in San Francisco on Wednesday night, said the U.S. would better serve its diverse population by letting the states handle many economic and social policies, a point he perhaps inadvertently drove home when he compared homosexuality to alcoholism.

"Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that," Perry said. "I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way."     More at SFGATE.

Then there is the Newly Adopted Texas RNC Platform!

Under the new plank, the Texas Republican Party recognizes "the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle."

"The platform reflects what the people in the Republican party have asked for, and that should be no surprise: family values, protection of marriage between one man and one woman and everything that goes along with that," said Jonathan Saenz, president of the conservative group Texas Values and a convention delegate.

The party did, however, remove language from the platform stating: “we affirm that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God.”

And how Can We forget Louie Gohmert!    
(U.S. Representative from Texas's First Congressional District.)

People...you just can't make this sh*t up!!!

Eric Cantor:   Good News...Bad News!

Good News:   Eric Cantor Lost!
Bad News:   Eric Cantor lost...because of Jesus!

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Does Eric Cantor Qualify for Unemployment???

Rep. Eric Cantor will relinquish his leadership position as the No. 2 House Republican, he announced Wednesday after losing his Virginia primary in a stunning upset.

"While I may have had suffered a personal setback last night, I couldn't be more optimistic about the future," he said at a news conference on Capitol Hill, calling for Republican unity ahead of November midterms.

"Now, while intend to serve out my term as member of Congress in the seventh district of Virginia, effective July 31, I will be stepping down as majority leader," he said.

The decision sets up a leadership scramble among Republicans in the House, which is led by Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.

The heavily-favored Cantor lost Tuesday to college professor and political novice Dave Brat, who triumphed in the Richmond-area district with tea party support.

More at CNN!

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Gitmo Taliban Detainees: Obama=5; Dubya=500+

I will save judgement until I hear/understand all the FACTS!

Source below from: Americans Against the Tea Party

"The Republicans have a lot to say about President Obama’s recent release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees.   He is being called criminal.
He’s being accused of endangering America.   They’re calling for hearings to investigate his actions.   All of this outrage over five men.

If the release of five men is such a crime, what about the release of close to 600?   You would think that would be considered a much bigger threat to our country, but you’d be wrong.   Why?   Because it was done by a Republican, and they surely believe that anything they do is for the good of the country.

Between 2007 and 2009, President George W. Bush released 520 detainees from the facility at Guantanamo Bay – at least that’s how many are officially recorded.   One of those detainees was Abu Sufian bin Qumu, who is a suspect in the Benghazi embassy attack.

The strangest part of this story is that despite official White House documents and news articles detailing Bush’s actions, people continue to deny that he has negotiated with terrorists.   Apparently his negotiations with Iraqi insurgents, Iran and North Korea never made it into the Republican history books."

Photo below from the cover of this week's Time Magazine.   Haven't read the article yet, but here's a teaser from Time's website...

"If every soldier were brave in battle, we wouldn’t need a word for valor. Yet generals since the time of Saul have confronted the problem of breakdown and desertion.   The eminent military historian John Keegan, in his masterpiece The Face of Battle, quoted U.S. military authorities who concluded after World War II that “there is no such thing as ‘getting used to combat’...Psychiatric casualties are as inevitable as gunshot and shrapnel wounds.”   Some soldiers deal with the pressure by running away—or worse, by switching sides.   Which is why Stalin kept a significant share of his guns pointed at the rear of his own army.   When President Obama stepped into the Rose Garden on May 31 to announce..."

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

46% of Americans hold the creationist view!!!

Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.   The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question.   About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, but with God's guidance; 15% say humans evolved, but that God had no part in the process.

Gallup has asked Americans to choose among these three explanations for the origin and development of human beings 11 times since 1982.   Although the percentages choosing each view have varied from survey to survey, the 46% who today choose the creationist explanation is virtually the same as the 45% average over that period -- and very similar to the 44% who chose that explanation in 1982.   The 32% who choose the "theistic evolution" view that humans evolved under God's guidance is slightly below the 30-year average of 37%, while the 15% choosing the secular evolution view is slightly higher (12%).