On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

this how petty, venial, full of **** the average crapwad Teapublican politician really is.

State Senator Taunts Laid-Off Reporter: 'So, Do YOU Have Any Comments Now?'

Source: Huffington Post

State Senator Taunts Laid-Off Reporter: 'So, Do YOU Have Any Comments Now?'
Posted: 10/16/2014 6:08 pm EDT Updated: 11 minutes ago

Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) mocked a local journalist after that reporter was laid off from her job this week.

Cari Gervin and her colleagues at Knoxville's alt-weekly paper Metro Pulse were let go this week as part of a round of layoffs by the paper's owner, the Knoxville News Sentinel. After tweeting about the layoffs, Gervin posted a screenshot of a Facebook message she received from Campfield:




Cari Wade Gervin @carigervin
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This just happened. You have to be ******* kidding me.


3:27 PM - 16 Oct 2014


Gervin told The Huffington Post that Campfield has sent her "a lot of really mean, harassing text messages" before. But she said his message about her layoff was "tacky and classless."

"All of us lost our jobs, and some of them -- I've been there for four years, but one of my colleagues has been there for 19 years," Gervin said.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/16/stacey-campfield-cari-gervin_n_5999798.htm

Canadian Supreme Court Rules Biblical Speech Opposing Homosexual Behavior is a ‘Hate Crime’

See more at: http://christiannews.net/2013/02/28/canadian-supreme-court-rules-biblical-speech-opposing-homosexual-behavior-is-a-hate-crime/#sthash.IxRgp6ro.dpuf

Most interesting thing here is that alt newspapers are increasingly not working, and the idea that the way to save the newspaper business is to publish a lot of small local papers with cheap or free local reporting is dead.

News as words on paper is going to almost completely Die. The internet and small handheld computers killed it.

Papers are .... evolving.

Meet the candidate who can’t legally vote for herself
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/meet-the-candidate-who-cant-legally-vote-herself

With so many interesting races this election season, it’s easy to miss some of the fascinating contests that appear a little further down on the ballot. Sometimes, for example, it’s worth watching contests for state attorneys general....

Republican attorney general candidate Leslie Rutledge isn’t a registered voter in Arkansas according to a report in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (ADG)....

On the surface, it’s a bit of a problem when a candidate in Arkansas can’t vote in Arkansas, but state Democrats are raising an even larger concern: under the state Constitution, in order to hold public office in Arkansas, one must be “lawfully registered to vote in the election.”....

The Arkansas Times reported earlier this week that there are allegations that Rutledge and her team coordinated campaign activities with the Republican Attorneys General Association, in violation of state elections law.

I am writing this out of concern. Today I had to get a routine blood test at the hospital, Mercy Hospital in Portland Maine. I do not post this to cause anyone any grief, but, I walked into the hospital on the side entrance. There are two entrances one is the ambulatory entrance and the other is on the side, "the main entrance". There were no signs saying it was an "exit only" or to please enter the hospital at the ambulatory entrance around back.

There was not a single soul at the front desk and there were no officers or nurses at all either.

I walked right into the hospital and went to the center of the hospital where they registered me for my blood work. I told the registration person there was no one at the desk and she seemed quite noticeably concerned.

I got my blood work done and left the hospital through the ambulatory entrance. At that entrance there were several nurses and a couple diligent security guards and the receptionists were at their stations.

I got the impression that only one entrance of the hospital was being secured.

Judging by the ambulatory entrance work force I would say the hospital was on high alert but judging by the side "main" entrance I would say there was a huge gaping hole in their security plan.

I am not writing this so someone will get reprimanded, I am writing this so the hospital (all hospitals) will maybe close the main entrance from people entering and accept people only though the ambulatory entrance. Safety is my only concern.

I have a very high respect for people in the medical profession and feel it is my duty to point this security lapse out.

All hospitals in this country need to be on the highest alert NOW and not just when things get worse.

If hospitals cannot afford to pay for FULL TIME security guards at "all" public entrances then "all" patients need to be funneled into a single entrance area.

Much love and please keep safe people!

Democrats Demand Investigation Into Republican Budget Cuts To Ebola Preparedness
Yes! Throw it back in their hypocritical mugs!

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/16/pelosi-demands-hearing-funding-levels-public-health-institutes-light-ebola-threat.html

Democrats Demand Investigation Into Republican Budget Cuts To Ebola Preparedness
By: Jason Easley and Sarah Jones
Thursday, October, 16th, 2014, 5:02 pm


Democrats are asking the right questions and demanding that Republicans hold hearings and investigate whether the CDC and NIH had appropriate funding levels in the areas necessary to combat Ebola.

In a statement, a group of House Democrats said,

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and the other Democratic Members of the Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS)-Education Appropriations Subcommittee in calling for hearings on the funding levels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and related agencies in light of the ongoing public health threat posed by the Ebola virus:

As Francis Collins, head of the NIH, said last week: ‘NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It’s not like we suddenly woke up and thought, “Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here.” Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.’

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The Appropriations Committee should return to Washington immediately and convene hearings to discuss and debate the issue of funding levels for NIH, CDC and related agencies in light of the public health challenges posed by the Ebola virus. While it is important that the House Homeland Security and Energy & Commerce committees have held hearings, it is not right that the Appropriations committee has not met in accordance with its responsibilities to fund these critical public health agencies.


While Republicans are busy doing their usual blame Obama thing and the media is whipping up needless hysteria over whether or not Ebola will be invading our homes and killing us all, Democrats are asking the important question. How did we get here?

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It isn’t a black and white situation, but the sequester that Republicans love so much has hurt. The focus should be on congressional Republicans, for one simple reason. The president doesn’t make the budget. Obama can make budgetary recommendations, but at the end of the day, as the old saying goes, the House controls the purse strings.

The talk about Obama’s budget is a smokescreen coming from people who don’t want to discuss the real issue. The important question isn’t did the CDC have enough funding. What needs to be investigated is if the CDC was properly funded in the area of preparedness.

House Republicans love to “investigate” any Obama scandal that Fox News can dream up, but it is a safe bet that they won’t investigate the role that their own budgetary choices played in the current situation.

Louie Gohmert: Nurses infected with Ebola are part of the ‘Democrats’ war on women’
ttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/louie-gohmert-nurses-infected-with-ebola-are-part-of-the-democrats-war-on-women/

Really? What, men can't catch Ebola?

Louie Gohmer really should not be allowed to open his mouth without coaching from someone reliable. Gohmer is one of the ragtag Tea Party hand picked congressman and is just as off the wall as Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Paul Cruz and other Tea party clones. What a bunch of Yahoos!

The Obama administration deserves that title more than any Tea Party member. They believe in the Constitution, Obama does not.

But, Barack Told Me To Say That

Bolivia has reduced poverty and inequality more than any country in the Western Hemisphere over the last ten years by increasing the minimum wage 87%, doubling investment in schools and healthcare, and lowering the pension retirement age from 65 to 60. The government paid for these programs by increasing taxes on oil profits from 18% to 82%, which also allowed the country to eliminate its debt and amass the world's largest surplus. Bolivia is now estimated to have the region's fastest growing economy this year and next, according to the IMF. Share if we should follow Bolivia, Like our page US Uncut!

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Can't you see the picture? The GOP just doesn't give a damn about Americans and this country. They've already sold their souls to the corporations so they can continue to run for office.

That's why I'm no longer voting in national elections; waste of time and effort.

It's not only the politicians, the public is also to blame. They never learn, or most are masochists.

The minimum wage is not now, nor was it ever, supposed to be a living wage.
It was set up to be an entry level wage, for those getting their first job,with no experience.