Chris Hayes: President GW Bush was really bad!!

GW was so bad that people had to find a hard time finding positive things to say about  GW Bush.  The try to rewrite the Bush years has begun.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/hayes-bush-presidency-it-was-just-bad-you

Morning Joe on Senators who voted NO on Gun Background checks. Joe gave em hell.

Joe Scarborough let loose on those who voted NO on Gun Law Changes.  He even said they were pathetic!!

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/vp/51656757#51656757

Rachel Maddow: Right Wing is saying the Government did the Boston Bombing

The Alex Jones show and his ilk are making all kinds of crazy blame on the Government.

The same people, apparently, who believe that the 9/11 attacks were engineered by the government are applying the same “false flag” theory to the Aurora, Colorado shooting, the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and now the Boston Marathon bombing. Some have even gone so far as to disrupt press conferences by public officials in Boston.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/maddow-slams-right-wing-mainstreaming-of-crackpots-like-alex-jones/

The Texas Prosecutor Homicides seem solved and it was a Justice of the Peace and his Wife

2 Prosecutors being killed in cold blood became old news when 3 people were killed and 150 were injured in the Boston marathon bombing.  We also had the blowing up of West Texas by dangerous chemicals stored by a money grubbing businessman who felt it was ok to ignore regulations and the safety of a community.

Here is an update on the killing of those prosecutors. It sounds like the wife of the Justice of the Peace has admitted her part in the killings and implicated her husband.

https://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/lost-in-the-scuffle-the-texas-prosecutor-homicides/

US Govt Buying Bullets: Republicans making it into a Conspiracy. A Democrat calls them out.

We have a lot of non-military agencies that have police type individuals.  Some are authorized to have guns and the US Govt. must have bullets for training and for their guns while they are on the job.  THE GOVT MADE AN ORDER FOR MANY, MANY BULLETS!  Palin and Right Wing fools made up this noise about the Government getting bullets to take away guns of the average citizens and people freaked out.  SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT CROCK OF CRAP!  So now the Republican House is having hearings to show the Conspiracy to the world.

I am glad a Democrat told them they are wasting precious time.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/rep-blasts-house-hearing-bizarre-conspiracy-

Jail: Alaskan Native Males in villages are being jailed and it is making things worse

A whole generation of Village Native Alaskan boys and men are being jailed and THEY ARE NOT GETTING BACK TO THE VILLAGES BETTER AND REHABILITATED.  They are meaner, angrier and worse off than without the court and police intervention.  Some tribes are going to village courts instead of involving State Troopers and State Courts.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/04/alaska-governor-sean-parnells-choose.html

Margaret and Helen: No one ever has to be shushed at the Bush Library

While watching the dedication I was reminded of his idiocy (I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully) as well as his  arrogance (I am the decider).  Lord help me.  I wonder if that man’s library even has books.  I bet nobody ever has to be ssss-hushed in that place.   It’s probably filled with paint-by-number sets.

http://margaretandhelen.com/2013/04/25/nobody-will-ever-need-to-be-shushed-in-the-bush-library/

Walmart - Sexy and I know it

Lots of butt cheeks  If you see your dad, momma, grandma, grandpa, wife or husband - I apologize.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/fuel-barges-explode-causing-large-fire-in-ala/2111739/?csp=fbfanpage

2 Barges Explode in Mobile, Alabama

A cruise ship that was being worked on had to be evacuated.  (The same cruise ship that lost power at sea and had to be towed back to shore with few lights or sewer in February)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/fuel-barges-explode-causing-large-fire-in-ala/2111739/?csp=fbfanpage

Spilled Tar Sands Oil moving towards the Arkansas River

The mess has not been cleaned up.  The oil moves downstream.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/untitled/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=update&utm_campaign=socialflow

20 kids and 8 adults were killed 4 months ago. NO CHANGE OF LAWS! 3 People killed 150 hurt in Boston Bombing - TIME TO TIGHTEN UP LAWS AGAINST MUSLIMS. Why the difference?

Sandy Hook Babies and staff were killed and the noise from the Right was to be quiet and don't change a thing.  A Bombing in Boston happened and THE RIGHT IS YELLING FOR TIGHTER LAWS AND TAKING AWAY OF RIGHTS OF THOSE OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH.  I just find the difference of tone and TAKING AWAY OF RIGHTS so strikingly at odds with each other.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rubio-tells-cavuto-hes-open-idea-profiling

Abortion: Killing Abortion Providers brought up again

I taught a 15 year old girl who during the summer was the prize for winning the poker game for the night.  She got pregnant by some unknown person,  (Dad ran a illegal bar, gambling at the home)  When she finally talked, she was put into a foster home and she got an abortion, which she needed.  Abortions are necessary in a real and sometimes unpleasant world.

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/anti-abortionist-shooting-abortion-doc

50 things you despised about GW Bush as President

The rewriting of what happened during the GW Bush years is in full force.  The opening of the GW Bush library shows a picking and choosing of the Bush Legacy.  There is  A LOT not mentioned about the Bush Presidency at the library.  After reading over the list, I sure could see why he would want to forget much of what he did and caused.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/50-reasons-you-despised-george-w-bushs-presidency-reminder-day-his-presidential?akid=10363.294211.XBHvfK&rd=1&src=newsletter830237&t=3

Here is another article on the cleaning up after the worst President.
This campaign is as much about cleaning up the mess he made for his brother Jeb, who clearly wants to claim his rightful place in the White House, as it is about refurbishing his legacy. Last week Bush told Parade magazine he hopes his brother runs. “I would hope that people would judge [him], if Jeb were to run, on his merits and his track record.…So I hope he will run.” The Bush rehabilitation project is something the entire Republican Party needs

http://www.alternet.org/worst-president-america-history-trying-spin-his-nightmare-legacy?akid=10363.294211.XBHvfK&rd=1&src=newsletter830237&t=11

Coffee is good for health

Coffee does not stunt growth.  Coffee has strong health benefits.

http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/the-science-of-healthy-eating/whats-the-deal-with-coffee.html

The Bombers: What they did wrong which got them caught

So much of what they did put them in the path of the police after the bombing.  It was almost like they wanted to get caught.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/eleven-most-mystifying-things-tsarnaev-brothers-did

The Green Shsdow Cabinet has started

Lee Camp is Commissioner of Comedic Arts.  What should he do?

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/lee-camp/lee-camp-its-time-build-shadow-government

Boston Bombers sold POT to earn money for bombs?

Speculation but Bomber 1 did not have a job.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/boston-bombing-suspects-sold-pot-article-1.1326722

Westboro Church VS Michael Moore - a video

Michael Moore takes a Gay Team to visit Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjFMYysdqHQ&feature=player_embedded

Westboro Baptist Church members will be arrested for picketing the funerals of dead people in West, TX

“We’ve been made aware that there could be individuals or groups who plan to picket or protest during the funeral services of our fallen heroes. Make no mistake about it, any attempt by any group or organization to disrupt the funerals of any of our victims of this tragedy will be dealt with swiftly and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I’ve contacted district attorney Abel Rena and he has assured me of his cooperation in this matter. We’re simply not going to tolerate that.”

Evidently, they just created a State Law recently which said WBC style protests CANNOT LEGALLY TAKE PLACE within 1000 feet of a HERO's burial.  So, they will test their new law with the deaths of the West, Texas first responders who died trying to deal with the fire in the inferno they encountered.  Some Westboro members are Lawyers so expect a legal battle.

http://samuel-warde.com/2013/04/texas-sheriff-takes-on-westboro-baptist-church-stay-away/?fb_ref=recommendations-bar

Under current law, those on the government's Terrorist Watch List can't buy a plane ticket. They can, however, buy an assault rifle. Any chance Congress might want to rethink this?

It's a legal oddity that doesn't get talked about much: if you're an American on the federal Terrorist Watch List, you can't buy an airplane ticket, and you're likely to have quite a bit of trouble at the border, but you can still buy an assault rifle. Graham sees no need to change this.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/04/24/17897510-guns-and-the-terrorist-watch-list?lite

Ted Cruz gets a letter: Hypocrite!

Ted Cruz continually voted NO on help for Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast but A TEXAS TOWN GETS BLOWN UP BY A COMPANY THAT LIED ABOUT EXPLOSIVES AND CRUZ INSISTS THAT THE TEXAS TOWN GET MONEY IMMEDIATELY if not sooner.  Hypocrite

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/dearsenatorcruz/

Colbert takes on the flawed right wing AUSTERITY BUDGET STUDY which used bad information,

Who would have thought a study that wasn't peer reviewed could have caused so much misery for so many? Stephen Colbert did a great job of taking down the deficit hawks who relied on the flawed Reinhart-Rogoff study, as only he can on his show this Tuesday evening.
Now if we could just get our President and Congressional leaders to quit listening to the likes of Simpson and Bowles, who are still out there pushing a new plan for austerity, even after it was revealed that theirs relied on the discredited research.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/colbert-takes-down-deficit-hawks-who-relie

Juanita Jean: Missouri stopped issuing driver's licenses because of a conspiracy to take your guns??

I will just let Juanita Jean tell it.  Only Glenn Beck can come up with this kind of crazy!!

Tsarnaev said he and his brother were self-radicalized, not trained by outside groups. Read more: http://wgntv.com/2013/04/24/marathon-suspect-i-did-it/#ixzz2RO2zx7TL

'I DID IT' Bomber 2 told investigators.

Tsarnaev said he and his brother were self-radicalized, not trained by outside groups.  It sounds like the older brother was the major influence on the younger brother.

Read more: http://wgntv.com/2013/04/24/marathon-suspect-i-did-it/#ixzz2RO2zx7TL

http://wgntv.com/2013/04/24/marathon-suspect-i-did-it/

Senate Repubs voted NO on GUN CONTROL to keep the House of Reps from taking a vote which would get them out of office.

2014:  The senate Republicans will not lose a lot of seats, so they could safely vote NO on Gun Control.  In the House, half the seats are up for grabs and they would be vulnerable when 90% of the people want real gun law reform.  So the Senate voting NO means the House does not take a vote and the emotional level for their re-election goes down.  That is how politics work in DC.  Politics has little to do with what is best for the average person on the street.

Which is what I said last week, and in the weeks before.  Nate's  (Nate Silver) analysis is worth reading completely as his numbers show pretty convincingly that no Senate Republicans are going to suffer from this next year.  The real issue was sparing House Republicans from going on record against it, and the Senate GOP played it perfectly.

Look for them to do the same on immigration reform.

Count on it.

http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2013/04/nates-numbers-on-gun-vote.html

Baucus WHERE POWER RESIDES, see how power works in WA DC

My guess is that Max Baucus will get a multi million dollar job as a Lobbyist as soon as he leaves office.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/hayes-center-american-politics-name-we-giv

Keystone XL - IMPACT STATEMENT, poorly done, MORE WORK IS NEEDED

” They (EPA) rated it “Insufficient Information,” which means that they do not know enough to fully assess the environmental impacts of a tar sands pipeline traversing the continent.
Here are the reasons EPA said that State’s DEIS needs more work:

• Increased carbon pollution: EPA acknowledged the DEIS’s attempt to do a life-cycle analysis of the pipeline’s emissions, which found that emissions from oil sands crude would be 81 percent higher than regular crude, or an incremental increase of 18.7 million metric tons of CO2 per year. EPA noted that “If GHG intensity of oil sands crude is not reduced, over a 50 year period the additional CO2 from oil sands crude transported by the pipeline could be as much as  935 million metric tons.” These statistics are alarming, yet EPA’s analysis did not stop there. 

Tar sands oil is particularly dirty to clean up: The EPA notes that diluted bitumen is very dense and sinks to the bottom of rivers and lakes. The  2010 Enbridge spill will require dredging, because normal cleanup methods do not suffice.

Who needs drinking water?: Though Keystone’e proponents received praise for moving the original route away from the Sand Hills, it still crosses the Ogallala Aquifer. 

http://www.alternet.org/environment/epa-slams-states-draft-impact-statement-keystone-xl?akid=10360.294211.67VZRS&rd=1&src=newsletter829656&t=25

US: DRAMA QUEEN NATION? Expecting the Good Guy to Blow away the Bad Guy so we can cheer and then wait for the next tragedy

BECAUSE WE SURE DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING FOR A DIFFERENT OUTCOME!


So I ask, has catastrophe become a kind of emotional catnip for us? You know, the kind of stuff we love to hate?
Whether it's school children mowed down by a crazed gunman, a bombing, even a fertilizer plant leveling half an American town, we no longer just shake our heads in disgust and disbelief and then go on with life. No, we don't. That was so last century. That's not enough today.
When one of these kind of events happen now an entire industry swings into action. News becomes reality TV - for real -- unscripted, unpredictable, unfolding as we breathlessly watch. And watch we will, because there's no escape. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, CBS, ABC, radio, internet, it's everywhere, all the time.

We, the United States, must like it because unlike other countries, WE DO NOTHING TO CHANGE THE laws which allow such tragedies to become so common.  The only question anyone has is where will the next tragedy take place.  Will it be an assault gun massacre, a bombing at an event or the blowing up of a town because a company ignored regulation or will we crash the economy because the Billionaires needed more money?  US: Drama Queen Nation.


http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/boston-bombings-are-tragedy-theres-something-else-we-gotta-ask-america-drama-queen?akid=10360.294211.67VZRS&rd=1&src=newsletter829656&t=5

We frack our water so it is not drinkable, we have pipeline spills which trash rivers and towns, WE SELL THE OIL OVERSEAS SO OUR GAS AND OIL PRICES ARE HIGHER

Patzek, an expert in unconventional gas recovery who has extensively studied U.S. shale plays, called congressional boosters of unlimited exports "delusional" in an interview with AlterNet.

"This is the same argument over and over again," he added. "If we have a boom, then twice the boom is always better. Right? Well, not necessarily."

Domestically, natural gas remains cheap, hovering around $3.50 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf). But in Europe and Asia, respectively, prices are three to nearly five times that amount. 

I don't know of anybody who's studied this who doesn't acknowledge that prices will go up," said Art Berman, an oil and gas geologist who heads the Houston-based geological consulting firm Labyrinth Consulting. "So if we lock ourselves into 20-year contracts to export X number of billions of cubic feet a day, well, that's going to increase the price. And that's really what it's all about." 

http://www.alternet.org/fracking/get-ready-higher-prices-and-less-energy-security-our-natural-gas-reserves-are-being?akid=10360.294211.67VZRS&rd=1&src=newsletter829656&t=3

Damning evidence against the Fertilizer Company (and the State of Texas) when they blew up a town.

The State of Texas was told that the Fertilizer Company had 270 Tons of a very dangerous explosive, BUT THEY DID NOT PASS THAT INFORMATION ON TO THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY.  The Company also intentionally omitted that they had hundreds of tons of explosive chemicals WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW!!  They just ignored the law and ended up blowing up a town.  From the article: 

Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the DHS when they hold 400 lb (180 kg) or more of the substance. Filings this year with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which weren't shared with DHS, show the plant had 270 tons of it on hand last year.

A U.S. congressman and several safety experts called into question on Friday whether incomplete disclosure or regulatory gridlock may have contributed to the disaster.
'It seems this manufacturer was willfully off the grid,' Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D-MS), ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in a statement. 'This facility was known to have chemicals well above the threshold amount to be regulated under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act, yet we understand that DHS did not even know the plant existed until it blew up.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312156/Texas-fertilizer-plant-exploded-failed-report-storing-volatile-chemical-used-Oklahoma-City-bombing-1-350-times-safety-levels.html#ixzz2RLHKY6uk
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312156/Texas-fertilizer-plant-exploded-failed-report-storing-volatile-chemical-used-Oklahoma-City-bombing-1-350-times-safety-levels.html

Bomber 2 is cooperating with the police

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755883/ns/msnbc-the_last_word/vp/51627628#51627628

The Fertilizer Plant EXPLOSION: The Coverup begins

Let the cover-ups, excuses, lies and CYA charades begin. The horrific and deadly Boston Marathon blasts have dominated recent media coverage and for good reason considering it’s an iconic historic event and the twin-bombings carried out by 2 brothers had grave terrorists implications. The pair of Marathon explosions took place Monday, April 15.
There was another explosion two days later roughly 1,800 miles distant in a tiny town of 2,800, 20 miles outside of Waco, Texas. The name of the town was West, Texas and it was home to two companies owned by Donald Adair. There was the Adair Grain Co. and West Fertilizer Company.



According to authorities, as late as last year (and I suspect possibly this year) the plant housed an incomprehensibly high quantity of ammonium nitrate as well; some 540,000 pounds of the stuff. This exceeded the quantity of Tim McVeigh’s Oklahoma City ANFO (Fuel oil) fertilizer bomb by a factor of 100. To put that amount in further perspective, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is supposed to be notified when plants hold a minimum of 400 lbs POUNDS of ammonium nitrate. The West Co. housed 270 TONS! That’s 1,350 times the red flag amount.
http://www.politicususa.com/deep-heart-texas-lies-coverups-surround-fertilizer-plant-explosion.html

The guns the Bombers had

They are slowly finding out about the guns.  Here is what is known at this time.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/tsarnaev-brothers-guns-boston-marathon-bombing

HS Girl Raped by basketball player: Principal asks girl not to report it, 'It will hurt his basketball career.'

The boy then raped another girl 2 weeks later.

http://www.alternet.org/school-principal-discouraged-teen-girl-reporting-sexual-assault-because-it-would-ruin-attackers?page=0%2C1

TEAMSTERS BLOCK WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH members from a Boston Bombing Funeral.

A great person woman was laid to rest today and the Westboro Baptist Church CRAZIES were there to protest with their STUPIDITY.  The Teamsters kept them blocked so those attending the funeral could deal with their loss and the accompanying grief after such a huge and unexpected loss.

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/boston-teamsters-westboro-baptists-sho