Christie asks people to be patient while he makes up a new story.

TRENTON (The Borowitz Report)—Responding to fresh charges that he knew about the controversial lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last fall, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today asked for the public’s patience while he makes up a new story.
“Today you have heard some allegations that are shocking and explosive,” he told reporters at a hastily called press conference. “All I ask is that the people of the great state of New Jersey give me sufficient time to invent a new story that explains my way out of this.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/christie-asks-for-publics-patience-while-he-comes-up-with-new-story.html

Sandra Fluke considering running for Congress

Hours after Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced on Thursday that he was retiring after four decades on the Hill, Sandra Fluke announced that she is “strongly considering” a run for his seat. 

Fluke, 32, made headlines in 2012 when she was denied the opportunity to testify in Congress on Obamacare’s contraception requirements while she was a law student at Georgetown University. Her story gained instant fame when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut” and a “prostitute.” Since then, she has become an advocate for women’s health issues and was invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2012.


http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/01/sandra-fluke-considers-running-for.html

Pity the 1%. Ed Schultz

Ed does a great way of talking about inequality and how the wealthiest are playing with the term.

http://wegoted.com/videos/pity-the-top-1-percent/

'Koch's are buying the US.' They spent 400 Million during the 2012 election. Harry Reid talks.

Harry Reid tells it like it is.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/30/harry_reid_rips_the_koch_brothers_for_trying_to_buy_the_country/

Jon Stewart - Atlanta Snow Zombie Mess that could not be predicted

Jon also has a few great comments about the State of the Union Address and the aftermath

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/jon-stewart-atlanta-snow_n_4701796.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Chris Christie is sinking fast.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is sinking fast. Yet another national poll finds that his 2016 hopes are fading, as he falls from first to third place among likely GOP presidential contenders in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, and 20 points behind Hillary Clinton. Like earlier polls, this one finds that Christie is losing his best attribute for 2016: his wide appeal with Democrats and independents

http://www.alternet.org/chris-christie-falls-apart?akid=11460.294211.LBljC0&rd=1&src=newsletter953283&t=15

Climate Deniers are going to court for defamation against Climate Scientists.

Finally, the courts get to hear a case where climate scientists are being defamed with little or no cause other than the Koch Brothers and their ilk will pay people to spew lies and distortions so they can make 100 Billion as with Keystone.

Accusing a scientist of conducting his research fraudulently, manipulating his data to achieve a predetermined or political outcome, or purposefully distorting the scientific truth are factual allegations. They go to the heart of scientific integrity. They can be proven true or false. If false, they are defamatory. If made with actual malice, they are actionable.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/right-wingers-hot-water-over-defamation

Republicans play with FARM BILL - Cash Payments not disclosed

The Farm Bill has a provision which does not disclose how much Republicans personally get from the bill.  The Public will not be able to learn how much politicians get paid from the bill.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/provision-requiring-lawmakers-disclose

5 Embarrassing ways folks trolled for sex on Craigslist

Psychic breast reading,  1$ per month penthouse apartment - have to be naked and enjoy being touched, 

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-embarrassing-ways-people-trolled-sex-craigslist/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage

Jon Stewart Tears Apart GOP Whining about Obama being Divisive - NO, No, No - The Republican Way

This is very good - a must see really.  Jon Stewart nailed the Republican feigning Obama is not being nice crap.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/30/1273649/-MUST-SEE-Jon-Stewart-TEARS-apart-GOP-whining-about-Obama-being-divisive-exposes-REAL-GOP-id?detail=facebook

Cleaning - 4 ingredients for cleaning - that is all you need.

http://www.survivingthestores.com/homemade-cleaners-floors-counters-tubs-non-toxic.html

The daughters of Wendy Davis are done with the idiotic comments about their wonderful mom.

My name is Dru Davis and I am Wendy Davis's daughter. I hate that I feel the need to write this, but I have been reading and hearing so many untrue things about my mom and I want to set the record straight. And sadly I feel the need to be crystal clear on the malicious and false charge of abandonment as nothing could be further from the truth. 

My mom has always shared equally in the care and custody of my sister and me. My mom had my sister at 19 and although she was technically married for a short period of time, she was handling almost everything on her own. She was working 2 jobs regularly and going to school. She met my dad when Amber was still very young. They had an amazing love that I witnessed for many years. Unfortunately, it didn't last, like so many love stories don't.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-daughters-of-wendy-davis-have-had.html

An Open Letter to Gun Lovers

Seven school shootings in 24 days? I can't imagine what they were worried about.
I said this on New Year's Day: "In 2010, by comparison, there were nine school shootings in America that killed seven people. In 2011, there were eleven school shootings that killed nine people. In 2012, there were fourteen school shootings - including the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary and Oikos University - that killed 43 people. In 2013, there were twenty-three school shootings that killed nineteen people. Nine, then eleven, then fourteen, then twenty-three. If the trend holds, we can look forward to maybe thirty or forty school shootings in 2014."
I was wrong. Seven school shootings in the first month of the year means we are on pace, if this keeps up, to have no less than 84 school shootings by the end of December.
You.
Yes, you, who love your guns.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21422-william-rivers-pitt-an-open-letter-to-lovers-of-the-gun

I am puking sick of reading every single day about how your baby, your toddler, your brother, your sister, your cousin, your niece, your nephew, blew their brains into their lap with a gun you left lying around, because freedom, or something.
I am sick of mourning the gun dead day after day, every day, because every day someone wins the Someone Gets To Be Dead Today lottery, because of you, and a whole lot of those winners are children.

Pete Seeger, 'Knee Deep in the Big Muddy'

This song freaked people out during the Vietnam war. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4

Pete Seeger died today. A great one is gone.

He lived to be 94 and used music to teach the world how to live.  RIP Pete.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21490-pete-seeger-dies-at-94-balladeer-was-americas-conscience

Guns to Music - IMAGINE by John Lennon with instruments made from guns.

John Lennon must be smiling in heaven to know his song is being played by these people and these instruments.

http://www.upworthy.com/youve-never-heard-a-cover-of-john-lennons-imagine-like-this-one?c=upw1

Best of the Web 2013 - Interesting stuff

People do some amazing (crazy) stuff for fun.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/hUj65M4T1cg?feature=player_embedded

Guns: Moms Demand Action - great ad

Such a great ad.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/01/wow-group-moms-demand-action-dont-pull.html

A Rap Guide to Evolution - Brilliant

This Evolution Rap and video are just great.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-rap-guide-to-evolution-six-minutes-of.html

2o foods that give you energy

http://ecosalon.com/20-foods-to-give-you-energy/

Health Care Costs LOWER RATES INCREASES under President OBAMA.

Health Care Costs Increases have dropped under President Obama but you would not be able to tell by reading or watching most news.  Overlooked information that matters.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/11/27/how-print-and-broadcast-media-are-hiding-obamac/197079

Gun Violence is now inevitable - Gun Violence is happening regularly

The ‘alarming regularity’ of gun violence

Mark Glaze from Mayors Against Illegal Guns discusses the current prospects for gun safety reform this year and the fear that Americans might be becoming complacent with the violence.

http://www.msnbc.com/now-with-alex-wagner/watch/the-alarming-regularity-of-gun-violence-128426051881?cid=sm_facebook_video

Climate Change is real and impacting the arctic

Recent warming has been unprecedented in speed, scale, and cause. Last year, we reported on a study that found the rate of warming since 1900 is 50 times greater than the rate of cooling in the previous 5000 years, which threatens to destroy the stable climate that enabled civilization.
The warming is so fast that it’s easy to forget how cold it used to be just a few decades ago, which is the point of a recent Climate Central analysis and the awesome xkcd cartoon based on it (above).
We’ve known for a while that the Arctic — which is warming at twice the rate of Earth as a whole — is now warmer than it has been in at least 2000 years. As a National Center for Atmospheric Research study found in 2009:


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/27/3207621/hockey-stick-warming/

Guns: Are you a school shooter if you take a gun to school for protection and then shoot yourself? People Shot this past week.

Nineteen people on this week's list accidentally shot themselves, and the seven child victims of GunFAIL were mostly teenagers, with the exception of a 2 year old and a 5 year old. Three people were accidentally shot while hunting, three while cleaning still-loaded weapons, and two by freedom-loving neighbors who were unsure where in the Constitution it said they had to keep their bullets to themselves.
Five cops and/or security guards were involved in GunFAIL incidents in the past week, ranging from the guy who was hired as a bouncer to keep guns out of a neighborhood party, but ended up somehow losing his gun during that party, to the BART officer accidentally shot and killed by another in the line of duty.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/26/1270763/-Are-you-a-school-shooter-if-you-bring-a-gun-for-safety-but-accidentally-shoot-yourself-GunFAIL-LIV?detail=facebook#

Guns put 20 Youth in the Hospital daily!

Did you know that in 2009, there were 7391 hospitalizations due to injuries from firearms in youth less than 20 years old? That averages to 20 a day--almost one an hour.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/mdmama/2014/01/guns_put_20_youth_into_the_hospital_every_day.html

Investing - Corporations buy back stock instead of investing in workers or R and D.

In sum, America’s leading corporations control a huge sum of money that they’re unlikely to spend on the machinery, wage increases and new ventures that might return the nation’s economy to something resembling health. Since these companies move their profits abroad to avoid U.S. taxes, a truly satisfactory resolution to this problem probably requires a higher level of transnational governmental coordination than is plausible—though the U.S. might consider stiffening and extending its sanctions on tax havens like the Cayman Islands to more mainstream tax havens like Ireland. It should certainly raise the taxes on capital—that is, on capital gains and dividends—to levels comparable to or, better yet, higher than those on labor, since capital income is soaring while labor income isn’t going anywhere. Our governments—both the federal and the states’—should set up investment banks to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. Minimum wage hikes and labor law reform are essential to restoring the nation’s consumer markets to a level of activity that would entice our reluctant investor corporations to actually expand production.

http://prospect.org/article/investing-stock-buybacks-not-people

Koch Goals: 1. Own the Republican Party 2. Have Control over Congress by 2016 3. Own the President

What’s the Koch goal?

The Republicans have the House, likely until 2020. Soon the Kochs will have the party, which will give the House to the Kochs (they and their Koch Conference friends). They have two good shots at the Senate, 2014 and 2016. And they’ve already set up their next shot at the White House by putting Koch (and Wall Street) favorite Paul Ryan in the 2012 Veep seat next to failed candidate Romney. As Rick Perlstein says, Republicans always nominate the “next in line.” Well, Paul Ryan has a strong claim to that, and a pretty face.
So what’s the goal? If I were the Kochs, I’d aim for a takeover of all three branches by 2016. Why not? Do these men think small? Asl yourself: Would you aim lower, if you were evil, greed- and power-obsessed, richer than god, very good at “mergers and acquisitions” — and if all the power in the country were actually within your reach in the next three years?

http://americablog.com/2014/01/kochs-engineering-merger-acquisition-republican-party.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog+News+%29

Water for sale - Our water is being bought up and is being sold back to us for a big profit.

The droughts are making the water more and more valuable.  We have a problem folks.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/summit-water-hedge-fund-mckenzie-funk-windfall-excerpt

Tennesee is the most violent state. High unemployment and high drop out rates are common for high crime states.

Why is Tennessee the most violent state? Well, according to 24 Wall St., who originally reported on the list of most dangerous states,

The state was among the top 10 in the country for murders and robberies and was first for aggravated assaults, with an estimated 479.6 for every 100,000 residents. Tennessee’s 41,550 violent crimes in 2012 were up 6.8% from 2011 but down 10% from 2007, when there were 46,380 violent crimes. There were 388 murders in the state in 2012, up for a second straight year. To be fair, Tennessee’s violent streak is concentrated in some of the major metropolitan areas. Memphis’s violent crime rate was the nation’s fifth worst, while Nashville’s was the 18th worst. Like many states with high violent crime, poverty in Tennessee is acute, and high school and college graduation rates are lower than most of the country.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/07/violent-state-crime-rate-tennessee/

More Americans have been shot and killed in gun violence than in ALL THE WARS THE US HAS BEEN IN!

I found this statement to be very shocking but it is TRUE!  It is now Jan 27 and we have had 5 shootings in Schools so far this year.  in 2013 there were no new gun laws to restrict the carrying of guns at the national level.  On the state level, most laws passed loosened already loose gun laws.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/20/more-americans-have-died-from-domestic-gunfire-than-all-wars-in-u-s-history-is-that-true/

An Open letter to Bristol Palin - I just thought it was good and reasonable being in Alaska and all

Bristol my dear,
Who the fuck do you think you are lecturing President Obama and Wendy Davis on morals? You are a 23 year old uneducated, unwed single mother whose best vocabulary consists of words such a “awesome,” “whatnot” and “haters.” You have not experienced life in any way. Heck, I have three kids, and they have been all over the world. My oldest son is the same age as you. He has been to America twice with the family, and once on his own. He has travelled to Australia twice on his own, has been to Morocco, Portugal, Italy and France. I may have left out a few countries. He has just completed his degree (not high school).

http://austinisafecker.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/an-open-letter-to-bristol-palin/

Zombie House - You need this place if the Zombies try taking over the world. A place to hide.

This is an old missile silo which was sold and renovated.

http://www.viralnova.com/apocalypse-house/

NJ Port Authority - SPEND, SPEND, SPEND and hide the deficit they cause.

Why this very popular project was stopped

The ARC Tunnel was supposed to help ease travel in one of the most densely populated areas of the country. That is until New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stopped its construction. Steve Kornacki explains why, the overall picture of the Christie budgeting process, and why the Port Authority is a big part of it.

http://www.msnbc.com/up/watch/hoboken-reacts-to-mayors-allegations-127184451744?cid=sm_facebook_video

Pipeline Explosion shuts off gas to 4000 in sub zero cold - TRANS CANADA PIPELINE EXPLODES.

300,000 get their water poisoned, 4000 have heat shut off in sub zero temps because of a Pipeline Explosion,  Water is being polluted so it is not potable - The Future is here and it is not good.  Thank you big oil.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/26/3205971/transcanada-gas-pipeline-explosion/

Egg Shells - eat them for health, calcium and trace minerals

Vitamin D helps with Calcium absorption

http://www.lahealthyliving.com/1/post/2013/04/eggshells-calcium-rich-food.html