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The Tea Party apparently has a new taxpayer-funded mouthpiece in Jeffco Schools. Link
When we bought our first house here our kid was a preschooler and we didn't know jack about various school districts. Thank goodness we bought in the Littleton school system. Back when ours started school it was Jeffco parents protesting Halloween celebrations as satanic and wanting to ban lots of books, including Mark Twain. Spooky.
Will Paris lawsuit ruin fox news? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/21/cnn-legal-team-fox-news-is-screwed-if-they-dont-settle-lawsuit-slapped-against-them-by-paris-video
Probably not. And their viewers will love them all the more for getting sued by the French. They'll probably bring back freedom fries.
Rather than showing voters weakness by their constant yearning for bipartisanship with their ever-more-radicalized Republican counterparts, Democrats in CO and DC (it now being obvious that the Republican Obstructionist Psychosis has spread to both capitals) should make sure to point this problem out to voters every day and should most decidedly pretend these anti-social, anti-Middle Class, anti-government R's don't exist. At the least D's should make sure every citizen knows how radical and anti-Middle Class they are.
Is this asking to much of our leaders?
Here's one of the crazies we're supposed to be bipartisan with: James Inhofe of OK, Republican Environment Committee chair who says climate science is a hoax:
Wednesday was a big day for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK). In the morning, he officially took the gavel as chairman of the Senate’s Environment Committee. In the afternoon, he took the Senate floor for a long speech about how human-caused climate change is fake.
Here’s the video:
In sum, the speech has everything. References to the oft-debunked “ClimateGate” stolen e-mail “scandal”, a poster of a Time Magazine cover from 1974 claiming an ice age is coming, and multiple references to former Vice President Al Gore. It has a mention of a survey of weather-casters who think global warming is caused by natural variation, but does not mention that weather-casters are not climate scientists. It even includes the claim that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “started” the whole idea that climate change is happening, even though the idea was conceived about 200 years ago.
The video above actually begins a couple minutes in to Inhofe’s speech, with a quote fromRichard Lindzen, a former MIT professor and one of the most-cited voices of scientists who think global warming is fake. Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist, has often been characterized as having contrarian scientific opinions. He has also said that the evidence that cigarettes cause lung cancer is not “so strong that one should rule that any questions were out of order.”
Behind Inhofe in the beginning of the video is a list of climate scientists — Lindzen included — who don’t agree with the vast majority of climate scientists who say human-caused carbon emissions are contributing to climate change. Inhofe says he has compiled a list of 4,000 “renowned scientists” scientists who disagree (“this is all in my website,” he said). Inhofe’s list actually has 650 people, some of whom are television meteorologists, geologists, anthropologists, and even a man with no college degree.
Conversely, one of the most recent peer-reviewed studies on the state of climate science showed that out of 4000 abstracts from peer-reviewed papers published in the past 21 years that stated a position on the cause of global warming — 97 percent of these endorsed the point that it was human-caused. In the video, Inhofe says this is “just not true.”
Anti-Middle Class Republican Senator Joni Ernst's family received $460,000 in government subsidies.
She's also wasn't wearing a flag pin. Boehner either. Why oh why is Fox not going nuts asking why the Republican leadership hates America?
Perhaps next he'll explain how it's possible to fall off the edge of you sail too far out into the ocean.
Well, this is something I suspect many New Yorkers have long thought true: State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) has been indicted by the US Attorney's office on multiple counts of corruption, bribery, and wire fraud. Silver has long ruled the NY State Assembly – one of the "three men in a room" in NY politics – and he's often been the power player behind the scenes among those three men.
This tale dates back to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's creation and then unexpected disbanding of the Moreland Commission investigating ethical breaches within NY state government. When the Commission was disbanded, it was rumored that investigators had gotten too close to something in Cuomo's sphere of influence. The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, demanded the entirety of the Commission's findings, and has been persuing things on his own since then. The result is the downfall of one of New York's most influential politicians. If Cuomo ended the Commission's authority on the request of Speaker Silver, his own political future – if not his standing as a good citizen – may be in doubt as well.
Also sadly not unexpected: Assembly Democrats are standing behind Silver.
Lots of international news today…
The government of Yemen has officially fallen. Both the President and Prime Minister tendered their resignations after Houthi rebels solidified their hold on the capital.
And Saudi King Abdullah has died. The new king, Salman bin Abdulaziz, is seen as being less reform-minded than was Abdullah; he is 75 and is reportedly a stroke survivor and possible dementia sufferer (though apparently not too far down that road). The new crown prince, Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, 65, is reportedly more liberal. All three men are sons of the original Saudi king.
I thought Dick Cheney was next in line of succession to the Saudi crown….
He's a bastard son, I think… you know…that thing about the camel….
More liberal?
As in, women will be able to drive and vote? Women will be able to vote this year for the first time in the Saudi Kingdom. I bet that will liberalize something.
And I wonder what this will mean for the price of oil?
Muqrin is supposedly more liberal than Abdullah was; whether that translates to women actually driving, I don't know. Salman, however, is not, and there will likely be a waiting game until he's not running things.
As for the new right to vote changing things this year, I would be cautious about your optimism on that front. The Saudi royal family is very good at limiting reforms to their own terms. They have more than once instituted mass arrests when pressed too hard on reforms. With them it seems to be one step at a time, and make sure the royal family remains the strongest political force in the country.
OTOH, I'm guessing they'll be supporting Jeb Bush for president next year.
No, the House of Saud is sticking to Romney.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you 'Mitt 3.1'
So the 2016 Republican primary will really be about Koch money vs. Saudi money. How very undemocratic.
"Personal belief" v. Reality
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/measles-cases-linked-to-disneyland-rise-and-debate-over-vaccinations-intensifies.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Reality wins in a landslide (as always), dumbasses . . .
Next up, "personal belief" v. Gravity . . .