Congratulations, House Republicans!

You better get yourself a collar and go visit this guy.

Why me? You're the one that sniffs other peoples asses and licks his own balls or at least licks where his balls would be if 'he' had 'em AND has fleas. Go get him cj, good 'boy'!

Wow. You are really lame. Do you get disability for that?

If I were you, I'd be more worried about that ball licking thing you do.

So you are permanently disabled?

Where do you dig up that ****? And why do you insist on chewing on it?

I know this is going to get me in hot water, but I don't really blame him for killing his dog. It is not like the dog just bit her lightly on her ankle or something, he bit her in the face requiring 24 stitches.

My problem is that the article suggests he shot the dog without any consideration: what really happened when a four year old was chasing a 10 yr old dog (if the dog had problems what was the daughter doing with the dog), shooting it in a urban back yard scaring the neighbors and the joking about it.

I think you're just fine. I know I've had dogs and kids and my kids safety always trumped the dogs.

Upside of Affordable Care Act: Health care costs down Savings estimated in billions of dollars
Not long ago, the airwaves were filled with predictions that health-care reform would be a disaster for taxpayers and consumers. That hasn't happened.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, will cut the federal budget deficit by $100 billion despite adding health coverage for about 10 million people, by federal estimates.

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The overall federal deficit has dropped dramatically. It's now projected to total nearly $5 trillion less by 2020 than was expected just four years ago. Maybe more importantly, Van de Water says the ACA is improving the health of the vital Medicare program, which is threatened by an influx of millions of baby boomers.
"Medicare will continue to need adjustments, but it's clear health reform has made Medicare's prospects better, not worse," he says.

the rest:
http://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2014/10/26/state-national/upside-of-affordable-care-act-health-care-costs-down/

Yeah, you are right. He should took it to the local humane society to put down, or if you live in the country, out in the woods where your kids and other people don't see it. Also pretty insensitive for the guy to joke about considering his daughter got really hurt and perhaps maybe required additional corrective surgery.

This is good, I don't understand why news such as this is not advertised in places like red states (my state and others) right after they have an ad talking about Grimes supporting Obamacare as though it is just a horrible thing and responsible for all their woes.

Politics is like what goes into sausages, you really don't want to know.

Maybe that is why my husband gets ours from a guy he knows who butchers and makes it at his farm. Kinda what people call "organic" I guess.

We all need to be conscious of of what our food is.

Jim Crow returns, By Greg Palast

Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html

Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed in at least one battleground state, and the numbers are expected to climb, according to a six-month-long, nationwide investigation by Al Jazeera America.

At the heart of this voter-roll scrub is the Interstate Crosscheck program, which has generated a master list of nearly 7 million names. Officials say that these names represent legions of fraudsters who are not only registered but have actually voted in two or more states in the same election — a felony punishable by 2 to 10 years in prison.

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The Crosscheck list of suspected double voters has been compiled by matching names from roughly 110 million voter records from participating states. Interstate Crosscheck is the pet project of Kansas’ controversial Republican secretary of state, Kris Kobach, known for his crusade against voter fraud.

The three states’ lists are heavily weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim — ones common among minorities, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, fully 1 in 7 African-Americans in those 27 states, plus the state of Washington (which enrolled in Crosscheck but has decided not to utilize the results), are listed as under suspicion of having voted twice. This also applies to 1 in 8 Asian-Americans and 1 in 8 Hispanic voters. White voters too — 1 in 11 — are at risk of having their names scrubbed from the voter rolls, though not as vulnerable as minorities.

If even a fraction of those names are blocked from voting or purged from voter rolls, it could alter the outcome of next week’s electoral battle for control of the U.S. Senate — and perhaps prove decisive in the 2016 presidential vote count.“It’s Jim Crow all over again,” says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery, now 93, says he recognizes in the list of threatened voters a sophisticated new form of an old and tired tactic. “I think would use anything they can find. Their desperation is rising.”


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"...a more glaring problem: the author of the op-ed has been dead for several years."


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-hampshire-dead-men-tell-some-tales

In New Hampshire, dead men tell some tales
10/27/14 03:22 PM
By Steve Benen


New Hampshire Republicans, still hoping to take down Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D), published an op-ed in a local newspaper this morning written by former state House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh (R). The piece isn’t quite as interesting as its author.

Even by 2014 standards, the Republican’s op-ed seems oddly detached from current events, referencing “skyrocketing gasoline prices,” a moratorium that no longer exists, and a House GOP lawmaker who’s no longer in the House. But given how frequently Republican criticisms bear no real resemblance to reality, this alone would hardly be noteworthy.

Dave Weigel, however, notes a more glaring problem: the author of the op-ed has been dead for several years.

What’s the matter with the column? Probably that Marshall Cobleigh has been dead for five years. In February 2009, the former speaker of New Hampshire’s often-Republican state House was felled by congestive heart failure. This op-ed is a reprint of a column Cobleigh wrote in July 2008, when Shaheen was running her first successful Senate campaign. Buzz Dietterle, the FDD’s opinion page editor, says that the New Hampshire GOP submitted the column (which originally ran in the conservative Union Leader).

“Shaheen, like a stopped clock, is often correct once or twice a day,” acknowledges the late Cobleigh in his column. He should hope so. R.I.P.

Now, there’s nothing necessarily controversial with recycling material, but Cobleigh isn’t in a position to criticize Shaheen’s performance in the Senate since he hasn’t, you know, actually been alive for the last five years.

Republicans couldn’t find an actual, living person to write a similar op-ed? New Hampshire isn’t a big state, but it’s not that small.

But Cobleigh’s mortal status adds a macabre twist to an attack piece that doesn’t make a lot of sense anyway.

I’m trying to imagine the conversation at New Hampshire Republican Party HQ.

“The five-year-old piece from the deceased says gas prices are skyrocketing.”

“So?”

“Well, gas prices are actually falling fast.”

“Just run it anyway.”

“Should we edit it to be more up to date and accurate?”

“{Hearty collective laughter.}”


The fact remains that gas prices, in our version of reality, continue to fall.

The average price of U.S. retail gasoline dropped 18 cents in the past two weeks to the lowest level in nearly four years, driven by a steep drop in oil prices, according to the latest Lundberg survey released on Sunday. Prices fell 18 cents to an average of $3.08 per gallon for regular grade gasoline, according to the fortnightly survey conducted on Oct. 24, the lowest price since Dec. 2010.


A couple of years ago, congressional Republicans were absolutely certain President Obama was driving up gas prices on purpose. Now, as prices at the pump drop, Republicans are either changing the subject of literally recycling old talking points that no longer make any sense at all.

These guys really take the limit in absolute gall, I honestly do not see how anyone with on ounce of honesty or compassion in him or her can be a republican in the current political climate.