This spring and summer, Congress must wrestle again with issues of military and entitlement spending, deficits, austerity, sequesters, debt ceiling, government shutdown and default, the GOP’s hatred of Obamacare and Obama’s immigration policies, and its burning desire to get Keystone XL [...]
Archive for March, 2015
March 15th, 2015 - 9:46 pm § in Misc.
Pennsylvania legislature failed to ban live pigeon shoots again
The scenes are awful. So-called “sportsmen,” not content to knock down clay pigeons, blow real live birds released from cages to smithereens. The carcasses — some just wounded and still struggling — pile up like trash in a landfill. It’s hard to believe anyone participa[...]
March 15th, 2015 - 5:08 pm § in Misc.
How much has oil train traffic grown?
“According to the Association of American Railroads, oil shipments by rail jumped from 9,500 carloads in 2008 to 500,000 in 2014, driven by a boom in the Bakken oil patch of North Dakota and Montana, where pipeline limitations force 70 percent of the crude to move by rail.” (Source) Phot[...]
March 15th, 2015 - 3:17 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Was Eve Transgender?
1 6 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 And unto […][...]
March 15th, 2015 - 3:14 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: A Pre-History of ISIS
Numbers 31:7-18 They attacked Midian as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and child[...]
March 15th, 2015 - 3:12 pm § in Misc.
Ferguson suspect says cops were mushrooms
Jeffrey Williams, 20, who’s charged with assault for shooting 2 Ferguson cops, has denied aiming at police and claims he was trying to blow away “some other people” with whom he had a “dispute.” The prosecutor acknowledged civilians were between the shooter and the cops[...]
March 15th, 2015 - 2:27 pm § in Misc.
Philly hero cop “redefined valor”
The Philadelphia Police Department buried America’s finest yesterday. Robert Wilson III, 30, was standing in line at a GameStop store, purchasing a toy for his 9-year-old son, when two armed robbers burst in on March 5. Wilson protected the other patrons by stepping out of line and drawing the[...]
March 15th, 2015 - 1:50 am § in America
Kick Andrew Jackson Off the $20 Bill!
Celebrating a slave master, genocidal maniac and the first President of what would become the Confederacy. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S. Jackson is still celebrated as the founding father of the Democratic Party …. a party that led[...]
March 15th, 2015 - 1:13 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Hypocrisy
Dexter Scott King Lists Malibu Mansion The youngest son of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has listed his Malibu estate for $4.85 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. malibutimes.com[...]
March 14th, 2015 - 8:20 pm § in Politics
President Cotton blows up world
What if Tom Cotton, the inexperienced young senator from Arkansas who wrote the infamous Iran letter, had been president during the Cuban missile crisis? I probably wouldn’t be writing this, and you probably wouldn’t be reading it. During that near-fatal confrontation, rightwing hawks pu[...]