Tom Friedman: Emanuel Left White House For Chicago Because Of "Unpleasant" Social Media

This is why they pay him the big bucks folks. Thomas Friedman wants the viewers of Face the Nation to believe that Rahm Emanuel decided to leave the White House and run for mayor of Chicago because of some meanies on social media and blogs. I guess all of that went away for him once he was mayor instead of Obama’s chief of staff.

This was during yet another of the countless discussions by our beltway Villagers about how our the Republicans in Congress might have cooperated with President Obama if he’d just learned how to schmooze with them and kiss their butts a little more, like President Johnson did back in the day. Yeah, that would have made all the difference with this crop of Republicans we’ve got in office today. And then we’re treated to this nonsense by Friedman:

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I Saved $335.00 A Month On Healthcare Because Of Obamacare

Because of the ACA, earlier this month I signed up for a new platinum healthcare plan offered in California that is saving me a ton of money — and for that, I’m very grateful. As many of C&L’s readers know, I suffered for many years while running this site with severe nerve damage that ruined my music career and kept me in chronic pain for a very long time. As a result of that combined with my age and another previous condition, my healthcare plan (PPO) has skyrocketed the last few years, making it very difficult for me to sustain the kind of coverage I need. So when President Obama undertook the task of trying to fix our broken system, I was firmly behind it — not because I’m a progressive, but because it was essential to my wellbeing. I’m selfish that way, I know.

Healthcare has become a hot-button political issue in our country because of the GOP’s opposition to expanding coverage to millions of uncovered Americans and the Beltway media’s refusal to call it the way it really is, but for me, this is all about survival.

Paul Begala said as much to CNN:

I signed up for health care through the Affordable Care Act last week.

I did so for one reason and one reason only: it was a good deal for my family. In fact, it was a better deal than we were getting before the ACA.

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Guy who can’t carry his own golf bag around makes gay handbag joke because … athletic.

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Steve Elkington, who makes his living walking around on well manicured lawns whacking at a little white ball while a gallery of mostly white guys maintain complete  silence so as not to distract him from his athletic endeavors, is kind of unhappy that a gay is going to play in that football league that competes for Sunday viewers with the JPMorgan/Rolex/Lear Rich Guys Watch Us Because They Think It Is A Sport Greater Hartford Open.

So Elkington, who chases that little white ball around on private country club courses using implements drawn from a bag that is carried by someone else who is in shape, or sometimes drives from shot to shot in an adorable little electric car, took to Twitter to express his dismay about the gay invading the fraternity of athletes to which he marginally belongs.

What is Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year Michael Sam doing at the NFL combine that has your plaid pants wedged up your butt, Steve?

That is rich. Anything else:

Care to clarify?

So it’s not really the gayness that bothers you. It’s the damn MSM shoving gayness down your throat.

Duly noted…

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Nine Years on the No-Fly List Because an FBI Agent "Checked the Wrong Box"

Over the years, I’ve written about a number of people who have been put on the no-fly list and prevented from entering the country for no apparent reason. Or, at any rate, for no reason the government cares to share with its victims. One of them is a Malaysian PhD student named Rahinah Ibrahim, who was detained at San Francisco International Airport in 2005; eventually allowed to fly home; and then put on the no-fly list and never allowed back in the country. Why? As usual, no one is willing to say.

But this week we got a bit of a hint. Over at Glenn Greenwald’s new venture, The Intercept, Murtaza Hussain reports on the latest developments:

Last week, a federal judge publicly revealed the government’s explanation for Ibrahim’s long ordeal: an FBI agent had “checked the wrong box,” resulting in her falling under suspicion as a terrorist. Even when the government found and corrected the error years later, they still refused to allow Ibrahim to return to the country or learn on what grounds she had been banned in the first place.

[Eric] Holder, in his April declaration, restated his own new state secrets policy, that “[t]he Department will not defend an invocation of the privilege in order to: (i) conceal violations of the law, inefficiency, or administrative error; (ii) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency of the United States Government”.

Then he did exactly what he had said he wouldn’t do.

Is there more to this? Maybe. The government, needless to say, isn’t talking. But it sure looks as if Ibrahim became a target for investigation; an FBI agent then filled out a form wrong; she was later cleared of any suspicion; but the mistake lived on forever and now no one wants to admit it. Do you feel safer now?

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Rich Catholics Threaten Pope Francis — Because He Frightens Them

Aggressive and whiny, billionaires like Kenneth Langone threaten to withhold donations to the church.

        If anyone wonders whether Pope Francis has irritated wealthy conservatives with his courage and idealism, the latest outburst from Kenneth Langone left little doubt. Sounding both aggressive and whiny, the billionaire investor warned that he and his overprivileged friends might withhold their millions from church and charity unless the pontiff stops preaching against the excesses and cruelty of unleashed capitalism.
        According to Langone, such criticism from the Holy See could ultimately hurt the sensitive feelings of the rich so badly that they become “incapable of feeling compassion for the poor.” He also said rich donors are already losing their enthusiasm for the restoration of St. Patrick"s Cathedral in Manhattan — a very specific threat that he mentioned directly to Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.
        Langone is not only a leading fundraiser for church projects but a generous donor to hospitals, universities and cancer charities (often for programs and buildings named after him, in the style of today"s self-promoting philanthropists). Among the super-rich, he has many friends and associates who may share his excitable temperament.
        While his ultimatum seems senseless — would a person of true faith stiff the church and the poor? — it may well be sincere. And Langone spends freely to promote his political and economic views, in the company of the Koch brothers and other Republican plutocrats.
        Still, a pope brave enough to face down the mafia over his financial reform of the murky Vatican Bank shouldn"t be much fazed by the likes of Langone.
        Yet Langone has reason to worry that the Holy Father is in fact asking hard questions about people like him. Indeed, he could serve as a living symbol of the gross and growing economic inequality that disfigures the American system and threatens democracy.
        As a leader of the New York Stock Exchange, he was largely responsible for the scandalous overpayment of his friend Richard Grasso, the exchange president who received nearly $ 190 million in deferred compensation when he stepped down. Although New York"s highest court eventually upheld Grasso"s pay package, it was a perfect example of the unaccountable, self-serving greed of Wall Street"s elite.
        Anything but repentant following the revelation and repudiation of the Grasso deal by NYSE executives, Langone told Forbes magazine in 2004: “They got the wrong f—ing guy. I"m nuts, I"m rich, and, boy, do I love a fight. I"m going to make them s— in their pants. When I get through with these f—ing captains of industry, they"re going to wish they were in a Cuisinart — at high speed.”
        He embarked on a furious vendetta against Eliot Spitzer, who had fought to recapture Grasso"s millions as New York attorney general. And when Spitzer was forced to resign as governor in the wake of a prostitution scandal, Langone"s public gloating seemed to indicate that he had played a personal role in exposing his enemy"s indiscretions. He particularly hated Spitzer for attempting to punish and curtail the worst misconduct in the financial industry.
        While Langone passionately defended the outlandish grasping of the super-rich like his friend Grasso, however, he has displayed far less indulgence toward workers, especially those struggling to support their families on poverty wages. Until just last year, he was a director of Yum! Brands, the global fast food conglomerate that includes Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken among its holdings — and that spends millions annually to hold down the minimum wage and prevent unionization of its ill-paid employees and farmworkers.
        What all this adds up to is hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable compensation for financial cronies, but not a dime more for low-income workers. It is exactly the kind of skewed outcome Francis means when he speaks about today"s capitalists, “the powerful feeding upon the powerless,” and the need for renewed state regulation to bring their burgeoning tyranny under control. He is talking about Langone, the Kochs and an entire gang of right-wing financiers.
        “How I would love a church that is poor and for the poor,” Francis said not long after his election to the papacy. This could be what he gets — and that might not be so bad, for the poor and for all of us, Catholic or not, who love justice.

 

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ABC"s Karl To Carney: Will Anybody Insurance Because Barack Obreezy Tells Them To?

JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: What do you think of some of these efforts by Obamacare supporters to reach out? I mean some of them, you know, the upside-down keg stands and what not. I mean, is anybody going to buy health care because Barack Obreezy tells them to buy it because it’s hot?

JAY CARNEY: I think having not designed advertising campaigns myself, I’m not an expert but I think that, you know, people, there are efforts underway to reach potential consumers. You know, where they live if you will and to get them to be aware of the options available to them and the wisdom of getting covered, of having health insurance and I think that is what all these efforts are about. And we certainly believe that there has been — I mean, one fact is in spite of, we know, it was being noted that the effort, the advertising efforts and the like had been pushed back because of the problems with Healthcare.gov. And one of the facts I think often went unnoticed is that even despite that we still have extraordinary levels of interest demonstrated by the number of visits to the website itself and that continues. We continue to see, I think, something like half a million over the weekend of visitors to Healthcare.gov. The demand is there and it is our responsibility to make sure that the system works so that the demand can be met.

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Teen Kills 4; Judge LITERALLY Lets Him Off Because He is Rich! (109 replies)

Teen Kills 4; Judge LITERALLY Lets Him Off Because He is Rich! (109 replies)
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posted on Dec, 11 2013 @ 04:28 PM

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I’m not sorry that this happens, it will…..persist the next 1000 years.

If I need something, I just take it. If you know you won’t be caught.. do it.

its between your God and Others’.

whoever is the stronger, benefits..

and for you that are smitten by this…. please get over it.

BTW, thats close to the truth, I don’t do that.
That’s why I make good choices, and I live in a place half the size of
most garages, barely have food, or a job_ to pay salary to a judge with my
taxes that would be better used for the gasoline to burn them at a stake!

edit on 11-12-2013 by AK907ICECOLD because: (no reason given)

Now before i get yelled at:
Its because I have a conscience, some do not. Plain and simple.
without mass amount of fund you and I will never see the kind of justice.

edit on 11-12-2013 by AK907ICECOLD because: I’m ranting pissed

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Teens Now More Likely To Get Genital Herpes Because They Didn"t Get Cold Sores As Kids

Kids these days! Strangely enough, they are less likely to have been exposed to herpes simplex virus type 1 in early childhood, according to a new study. That means they don’t get cold sores as elementary schoolers, but it also means when they become sexually active, they don’t have immunity to help protect them against the virus in… other regions of their bodies.

I remember learning in elementary school that there’s oral herpes and genital herpes and never the twain shall meet. It seems these distinctions are blurring with younger Americans, however. An increasing proportion of genital herpes infections in industrialized countries now stem from herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), or the “cold sore” virus, instead of HSV-2, which people usually get from sexual contact.

The increasing popularity of oral sex may contribute to the shift in infection types, the study’s researchers, a team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in their study. Meanwhile, HSV-2 infections aren’t decreasing, so teens may be more likely to get genital herpes in general, the study reports. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 infections last people’s entire lives and have no known cure.

Back in these teens’ parents’ time—or really, just a decade ago—most genital herpes infections came from HSV-2. On the other hand, people contracted HSV-1 as children, from skin-to-skin contact with infected adults. Kisses, sharing drinks, and other normal interactions passed to children the virus that might, in some kids, give them occasional cold sores; in others, the virus stayed dormant. Either way, the virus could trigger the body to develop immunity against contracting HSV-1 later in life, in other parts of the body. 

The new study didn’t analyze why kids now get HSV-1 less often. But Marcelo Laufer, a pediatric infectious disease specialist who was not involved in the new research, told HealthDay it might be because parents now have better hygienic practices. 

The CDC researchers studied herpes viruses in blood samples from Americans aged 14 to 49 in different time periods. When the researchers compared their numbers from 1999 to 2004 and 2005 to 2010, they found the frequency of HSV-1 in Americans declined by about 7 percent. HSV-2 infection rates remained the same.

The decline was most dramatic in teens aged 14 through 19. In 1999-2004, about 39 percent of teens had HSV-1. In 2005-2010, about 30 percent had the virus. Compared to teens in 1976-1980, teens in 2005-2010 were 29 percent less likely to have HSV-1. 

There’s a small silver lining. Genital HSV-1 infections break out in sores less often and undergo viral shedding—the process through which the virus travels to the surface of the skin and could infect others—less often than genital HSV-2 infections.

The CDC researchers published their work yesterday in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

[Infectious Diseases Society of America via EurekAlert, HealthDay]

Bonus: HPV Vaccine Doesn’t Make Kids More Sexually Active

In other news about the same body parts, recent studies have found kids who get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine do not become sexually active at earlier ages than unvaccinated kids, according to a review in the journal Preventive Medicine. The HPV vaccine immunizes kids against many of the viruses that cause genital warts and cervical cancer. U.S. health agencies recommend girls and boys get the vaccination at age 11 or 12, but some parents have cited concerns that giving their children a vaccine against sexually transmitted infections may encourage them to have sex earlier. The review also examines evidence about the side effects and safety of the vaccine, which the authors conclude is “quite safe.”

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Cruz: GOP lost because they didn’t accuse Dems of holding children ‘hostage’

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says that Republicans could have won the fight to derail President Barack Obama’s health care law by shutting down the government if they had just accused the Democrats holding children with cancer “hostage.”




In an interview that aired on Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Cruz if he was bothered on a “human level” that so many colleagues in his own party were angry at him for instigating the shutdown.




“Not remotely,” Cruz insisted. “I work for 26 million Texans, that’s my job to fight for them. I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington… The reason people are frustrated all over the country is that far too many people get elected and they think they’re there to be part of the club.”




The Texas senator observed that things could have turned out differently if Senate Republicans had “marched into battle side by side” with House Republicans to defund Obamacare.




But Bash noted that Democrats had the successful strategy in the end.




Cruz, however, reminded Bash of an exchange she had with Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV) about a Republican plan to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other selective parts of the government during the shutdown.




A controversy had erupted at the time when Bash asked Reid if it would be worth it if he could help “one child” with cancer.




During the interview that aired on Sunday, Cruz said that Reid showed Democrats were “vulnerable” and that Republicans should have used children with cancer as a pressure point to win the fight against health care reform.




“President Obama and the Democrats’ position throughout this is, ‘We will not negotiate, we will not compromise, shut it all down.’ That’s not a reasonable position,” he explained. “If Senate Republicans had united and supported House Republicans, if we had 46 Senate Republicans on television every day, in the media every day making the point, ‘Why won’t they fund the VA, why are they holding our veterans hostage? Why won’t they fund the NIH, why are they holding kids with illnesses hostage?’”




“That’s a fight we could win because their position was unreasonable.”




Watch the video below from CNN’s State of the Union, recorded Oct. 20, 2013.













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Brit Hume: "Shutdown Is A Disaster For Republicans Because They Will Be Blamed"

BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, what you saw — you saw it in the interviews that you just did, is how the two sides view this. Senator Lee kept saying this is a bad law. And (inaudible) reasons why. Senator Kaine kept saying don’t shut down the government. In fact, it was only Senator Kaine who mentioned the shutdown, and that’s because the Democrats believe that shutdown is a disaster for the Republicans because they will be blamed. And if history is any guide, they will indeed be blamed. So that’s sort of where we are and neither side I think feels it has an incentive to move forward with a compromise. Now, it’s possible, Chris, with an 11th hour deal where you pass a continuing resolution that doesn’t have any of the contentious additions to it for a matter of several days to give us more time. But unless some compromise emerges that both sides seem likely to agree on, I don’t think that would do anything which would delay the inevitable. That’s where we are. Shutdown appears to be where we’re going.

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Brit Hume: "Shutdown Is A Disaster For Republicans Because They Will Be Blamed"

BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, what you saw — you saw it in the interviews that you just did, is how the two sides view this. Senator Lee kept saying this is a bad law. And (inaudible) reasons why. Senator Kaine kept saying don’t shut down the government. In fact, it was only Senator Kaine who mentioned the shutdown, and that’s because the Democrats believe that shutdown is a disaster for the Republicans because they will be blamed. And if history is any guide, they will indeed be blamed. So that’s sort of where we are and neither side I think feels it has an incentive to move forward with a compromise. Now, it’s possible, Chris, with an 11th hour deal where you pass a continuing resolution that doesn’t have any of the contentious additions to it for a matter of several days to give us more time. But unless some compromise emerges that both sides seem likely to agree on, I don’t think that would do anything which would delay the inevitable. That’s where we are. Shutdown appears to be where we’re going.

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Kids Shouldn"t Have Phones Because They Need to Learn Empathy and Experience Sadness

A definitive moment from Louis CK on the touch-screen generation this week:

 

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Republicans to vote on debate boycott because of Clinton programs

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds forcefully to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington January 23, 2013.

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BOSTON | Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:03am EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) – Delegates to a summer meeting of the Republican National Committee are scheduled to vote Friday on a possible boycott of 2016 presidential debates sponsored by CNN and NBC if the networks go ahead with plans for special programs on Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Republican leaders last week sent letters of protest to both networks complaining that a planned CNN documentary and an NBC miniseries amount to political ads for the former secretary of state, who is seen as a likely 2016 contender for the White House.

The vote is scheduled for the last day of a three-day gathering called “Making it Happen,” where Republicans are discussing ways to use technology and other means to connect with a wider range of voters, following Mitt Romney’s failure to unseat incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama in November.

CNN officials have said their documentary, due to appear in theaters and on television in 2014, is not yet complete, while NBC said its mini-series is being produced by an entertainment unit, which is independent of the news division.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus had said that if CNN and NBC did not scrap their Clinton programs, he would seek an RNC vote saying the Republican Party would not work with the two networks on its 2016 primary debates or sanction the debates sponsored by them.

In preparation for the next presidential election, Priebus said the party would consider holding its 2016 nominating convention in June or July, rather than August, to reduce the amount of time Republican candidates spend competing against one another. An earlier convention also would allow the Republican nominee to focus on the Democratic opponent.

“Our party should not be involved in setting up a system that encourages the slicing and dicing of candidates over a long period of time with moderators that are not in the business of being at all concerned about the future of our party,” Priebus told reporters this week.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, seen as a likely 2016 Republican contender for the White House, addressed the meeting in a closed-door session Thursday. New England Republicans including Maine Governor Paul LePage and former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown also mingled with delegates from state party organizations.

Clinton, the former first lady and U.S. senator from New York, has not yet said if she will run for president in 2016 as she did in 2008 but Republicans at the meeting clearly saw her as a threat.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday said Republicans needed to change their tone to focus on new ideas, rather than focusing on “anti-Obama” messages, to prepare for 2016.

“I don’t think we beat Hillary Clinton in a personality fight because the news media will prop her up,” Gingrich said.

Republicans are holding their regular summer meeting in a Boston hotel next door to the convention center where Romney delivered his election night concession speech nine months ago. They moved the meeting, originally due to be held in Chicago, to Boston as a show of support after the April 15 bombing of the city’s marathon.

(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Bill Trott)

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Chaffetz: Obama Losing Support Because Words Don"t Match Deeds

President Barack Obama is losing the support of liberals and independents because his campaign promises don’t match his actions, says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

Obama hasn’t paid attention to jobs and the economy, Chaffetz said Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.”

“We’re worse off for his excessive spending,” Chaffetz said. “They went out and spent over $ 800 billion on this stimulus. We look back now, what did we get for it? We’re mired in scandal.”

More than 100,000 additional federal workers are on the job since Obama took office in 2009, he said. “Has anybody seen a difference? Does suddenly transportation work better in this country because . . . we were just short on personnel?”

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Gohmert: Not "Evil" To Cut Food Stamps Because Poor People Buy King Crab Legs

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): “When I look into the eyes of constituents, who want to provide for their children … and they talk about standing in line, I’ve heard this story so many times … standing in line at a grocery store behind people with a food-stamp car—one individual said, I love crab legs. You know, the big king crab legs. I love those. But we haven’t been able to have those in who knows when. But I’m standing behind a guy who has those in his basket, and I’m looking longingly like, when can I ever make enough again where our family can have something like that, and sees the food-stamp card pulled out, and provided, he looks at the king crab legs and looks at the ground meat, and realizes because he does pay income tax, he doesn’t get more back than he pays in, he is actually helping pay for the king crab legs when he can’t pay for them for himself.”

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