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Surprise, Surprise! Rand Paul Lied About His Undergraduate Degree TWICE

Posted by: Josh Kilburn in Most Popular on AATTP, TEApublicans in Action February 14, 2015
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This isn’t the first time that Rand Paul has had a problem with that little thing called “intellectual integrity” (he’s a libertarian, after all), but it is the most recent and perhaps most blatant example of it. While giving an interview on TechCrunch, Paul asserted twice that he holds two bachelor’s degrees from Baylor University.

Well, it turns out that’s not exactly the case. While he may have a medical degree from Duke University, he never completed his undergraduate degree from Baylor University — despite his assertions otherwise.

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler highlighted Paul fabricating his degree twice during his appearance at the Lincoln Labs “Reboot Congress” event on Thursday. The first time happened during an interview Paul gave with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. During the interview, Arrington asserts that his degree is in economics, and Rand adds that his is in “biology and English.”

ARRINGTON: Let’s talk about economics because maybe you can actually explain this to me. I have an econ degree which means I know just enough not to understand any of what our government is [inaudible]…

PAUL: Mine’s in biology and English so this is going to be a great conversation.

Then, while he was discussing everyone’s favorite cryptocurrency, Paul reiterated he had a non-existent degree in biology. “This is just me. I have a biology degree, okay? But with Bitcoin my concern always was whether or not something has real value. So I could imagine a kind of coin that was exchangeable. This gets back to the whole idea, does money have to be exchangeable for something to be of value?”

As Kessler notes, Paul did study biology and English while at Baylor — but he left the university after three years in 1984, without either degree. Despite lacking these undergraduate degrees, Paul would graduate in 1988 from Duke’s medical school. A spokesman for the senator even stepped forward and said that Paul didn’t hold the degrees. Still, this isn’t even the first time Paul has done this; in 2010, he didn’t bother correcting a reporter who made the same claim.

I can appreciate a desire to look intelligent; when you’re around highly educated people, it’s only natural to want to appear educated yourself, and to show off a bit in the process.

But it’s really condescending when that desire to look intelligent and show off assumes the rest of us are idiots, don’t you think?
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GOP Debunked: Study Shows Less Than One-Half Percent of Welfare Recipients are Drug Users


Posted by: Sky Palma in Economic Issues, TEApublican Smack Downs February 10, 2015
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In a huge debunking of GOP talking points aimed at welfare recipients, less than one-half percent of people who applied for public assistance in Tennessee were flagged as drug users.

A study looked at 16,000 applicants from the beginning of July to the end of the 2014, and found that a mere 37 tested positive for drugs.

From ThinkProgress:

Such an infinitesimal rate of drug use among welfare applicants contrasts sharply with the state’s overall 8 percent rate of drug use. Across the country, states that implement drug tests for low-income families have found that economically vulnerable people are less likely than the general population to use drugs. Utah spent $30,000 on tests that caught just 12 drug users, for a positive rate of 0.2 percent of total benefits recipients, compared to 6 percent of all state residents who use drugs. Before a judge ruled Florida’s drug testing system was illegal, it had turned up a drug use rate of just 2 percent among public assistance users, compared to 8 percent of its total population.

Other research has shown that the GOP’s stigmatizing of low income Americans is not born out by the facts. Statistics show that less than 4 percent of welfare recipients abuse drugs with the rate of casual drug use comparable to that of middle class America.

“Other physical and mental health problems are far more prevalent” among low-income people than substance abuse problems, social scientist Harold Pollack wrote in the Washington Post. “Yet these less-moralized concerns receive much less attention from legislators or the general public.”

But the idea of drug testing poor folk before doling out food money and rental assistance continues to spread despite all the evidence and expert testimony against the practice. Texas lawmakers are hoping to start mandatory drug tests for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; their law would impose a three-strikes rule for drug testing, under which anyone who tested positive a third time would be permanently ineligible for the federal aid program. Maine is launching its own drug testing system for welfare early this year. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) wants to drug test everyone who gets food stamps or jobless insurance money. Montana lawmakers have proposed a drug testing scheme this year, and El Paso County, CO has instituted a testing system.

Regardless of the data, Republicans still think drug testing low income families is a policy that is politically beneficial.
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Did the NYT hire Boob?

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I can hardly wait till Killary and the pedophile x-pres hit the campaign trail

next up we will be getting a study that shows that Spumoni is America's favorite ice cream. When 9.5% of adults are drug users certainly more than .5% of welfare people use.

This article tests the theory that people will believe anything, because they are stupid.

So its wrong because the great and mighty hawkeye says so. How about a little proof with your whine, sparky? Maybe some facts to support your supposition?

Racist GOP Mississippi Judge Indicted After Hitting, Yelling Racial Slurs at Mentally Disabled Black Man
Madison County judge yelled, "Run, n*gger, run" at 20-year-old Eric Rivers.
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet
February 16, 2015

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/racist-mississippi-judge-indicted-after-hitting-yelling-racial-slurs-mentally

http://judgepedia.org/Bill_Weisenberger

A Mississippi judge accused of striking a mentally disabled black man and yelling racial slurs at him has been charged with simple assault on a vulnerable adult nearly nine months later, the Clarion-Ledgerreports.

Madison County Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger turned himself in on Thursday but was released on a $10,000 bond soon after. Witnesses claim Weisenberger hit 20-year-old Eric Rivers, an African-American man, and yelled “run, nigger, run” at him at the Canton Flea Market on May 8 of last year.

If convicted on the felony charge, the judge faces up to five years in prison or up to a $1,000 fine, or both. A trial date has been set for June 8.

Bill Kirksey, Weisenberger’s lawyer, told the Ledger his client “has denied and continues to deny any wrongdoing or the commission of any crime against any person."

Kirksey and Madison County officials have expressed concern about the slowness of the process, with Kirksey complaining that the attorney general cycled through four juries before presenting the case.

Though Judge Weisenberger voluntarily stepped down from the bench, he is still being paid his annual salary of $45,700. Only the state’s Supreme Court or a felony conviction can remove a judge from the bench.

These allegations of racism against Weisenberger aren’t the first. Last year, he was accused of illegally imposing a DUI sentence against a black person in his courtroom.

Charles Plumpp told WJTV that Weisenberger illegally threw him in jail last year on a “roaming livestock” misdemeanor charge. He spent a day in jail with no bond before another judge released him. Weisenberger reversed his ruling two months later after it was determined that there was no “roaming livestock” misdemeanor law on the books.

“It's foolish; my civil rights were violated. [I spent] 24 hours behind bars, imprisoned [and] handcuffed,” Plumpp said after his conviction was reversed.

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter @Russian_Starr.

So the right thing was done and a judge was indicted. What are you complaining about? It seems to be all you can do. And you do not even do that well.

Who's complaining, dummy? I'm reporting it.

The rolling disaster of John Boehner’s speakership
By Paul Waldman February 16 at 12:59 PM
For years now, John Boehner’s continued occupation of the House speakership has been in doubt. Would the tea partyers evict him in a coup? Would he simply not want this thankless task anymore? The presumption, which I’ve always shared, is that Boehner is in a nearly impossible position. Pressed by a large right flank that sees any compromise as a betrayal, he is constrained from making the deals necessary to pass legislation. While Mitch McConnell can successfully corral his caucus to vote as a unified bloc, the one over which Boehner presides contains so many extremists and cranks that it’s just impossible to hold together.

All of that is true. But might it also be true that Boehner is just terrible at his job?

Look at the two stories about Boehner making the rounds today, both of which were addressed in an appearance he made on “Fox News Sunday” yesterday. The first is the possibility of a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security if Congress can’t pass a bill to fund the department. At a moment when the news is being dominated by terrorism, both in the Middle East and in Europe, a shutdown would be a PR disaster for the GOP (even if, in reality, the key functions of the department would continue with little interruption). The House passed a bill to fund the department, including a provision revoking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Everyone knows that such a bill is going nowhere — it failed to overcome a Democratic filibuster in the Senate, and even if it had, Obama has made clear that he’ll veto it.

Asked repeatedly by host Chris Wallace whether the House would revisit the Homeland Security spending bill, Boehner kept repeating that “The House has done its job.” And he couldn’t have been clearer on the possibility of a shutdown

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11.4 Million People Signed Up For Obamacare In 2015
Source: TPM

The White House announced on Tuesday that 11.4 million people signed up or re-enrolled in health insurance through the federal exchange during the 2015 enrollment period.

On the last day of the enrollment period, on Feb. 15, HealthCare.gov saw its biggest enrollment day ever.

About 7 million people signed up for health insurance during the 2014 enrollment period.

President Obama made the announcement in a video posted on Facebook.

"It gives you some sense of how hungry people were out there for affordable, accessible health insurance. And that’s really the top line message. The Affordable Care Act is working," he said about the 2015 enrollment numbers.

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10 truly bizarre Tea Party bills: From nipples to militias to religious zealotry

The Montana Legislature is now controlled by some far-right loons. You won't believe what they're trying to pass
Eric Stern


Here are the 10 most bizarre Tea Party bills currently being debated in the Montana Legislature, which is now controlled by the right wing of the Republican Party. Some of these bills, believe it or not, have a chance of making it to the governor’s desk.

1) Prepare for National Ammunition shortage (SB 122). When Obama comes to get our guns and bullets, Montana will be ready. This bill cites the “serious risk” that America might run out of ammunition and exempts Montana’s ammo manufacturers from paying any taxes at all, as an incentive to produce more bullets so we can survive the Obama gun rapture. Its author, Matt Rosendale, was an unsuccessful congressional candidate in 2014 whose campaign ads featured him shooting drones out of the air with a rifle.

2) Establish Armed Militias in Every Town (SB 130). Even if we have enough bullets, Montana could still be in grave danger from the federal government. This bill would protect citizens by creating local paramilitary groups across the state, known as “home guards,” and would allow sheriffs to mobilize these troops for whatever reason they so choose, without the governor’s consent. This concept is supported enthusiastically by militia groups whose members enjoy stockpiling firearms but sometimes go to prison.

3) Require that nipples and areolae be fully concealed; prohibit “simulated genitalia” (HB 365). Our state already has a general law against indecent exposure but Montana’s social conservatives feel it isn’t enough. The new proposal lists body parts. Specifically, it would prohibit “exposing the anus, areola or nipple with anything less than a fully opaque covering.” Better yet, it would forbid the wearing of “any costume or covering that gives the appearance of, or simulates, the genitals, nipple or areola.” So much for my Halloween idea.

4) Montana Legislative Dress Code. A young conservative ascended to speaker of the House this year, and his first order of business was to propose a new dress code that advised women “to be mindful of necklines and skirt lengths” and also to wear only “dress blouses or suit-like dresses,” and never “jersey or fleece material” or leggings. Areolae and nipples were not mentioned.
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5) “Encourage Critical Thinking in the Classroom” is the title of HB 321. The preamble of this legislation says, “The scientific community has not resolved or answered the questions related to the origins of all life or the origin of our universe.” It would give public school teachers legal immunity if they want to teach “alternative” theories.

6) Allow Concealed Weapons in Bars, Banks, and on Campuses (HB 371, SB 143). There are a few places where Montana has always forbidden citizens from carrying weapons, including financial institutions, places where booze is served and college campuses. The Tea Party feels Montana would be a safer place if we rescind these rules. One point where they yielded, however: Bars on campuses will still be allowed to have a no weapons policy. So students wanting to stand their ground will have to go off campus.

7) Ban “Foreign or Religious Law” From American Courts (SB 199). The purpose of this law is to prevent Muslims from using Shariah law to co-opt our legal institutions. This is a serious threat in Montana where the Muslim population is probably .001 percent.

8) Return All Federal Lands to State Ownership (LC 1758 et al). This concept comes out of a growing national movement (think Cliven Bundy) whose members do not recognize the right of the U.S. government to own large pieces of land such as national parks and forests. The bill effectively proclaims that these lands belong to Montana, rather than America, and demands that the U.S. government return them. The Montana Republican Party platform also calls for this.

9) Nullify All Federal Gun Laws (HB 203). This bill declares that Montana may selectively recognize or ignore federal firearms laws, such as a ban on machine guns. Better yet, it makes it a crime for a policeman to even try to enforce such laws. The bill’s author, Montana’s Tea Party leader Art Wittich, has been known to enjoy nullifying laws himself. He will soon be on trial for having ignored Montana’s campaign donations laws.

10) Allow Hunting With Silencers (HB 250). The people behind this idea think that big game hunting is too difficult under current rules, because if you take a shot and miss, the animal hears the gunfire and runs. Then you have to pursue him (or her), which could take a whole day. That’s called “fair chase” but many Tea Party types believe this burdens their freedom. They think the Second Amendment guarantees them a Second Shot.

Eric Stern is Deputy Secretary of State in Montana.
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ONE PEDOPHILE X- PRESIDENT WHOSE WIFE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

You simple twit.

Better than president that disgraced the office and screws underage(children). And his lying wife who has to be morally bankrupt to stay with him./color]

Substantiate even a scintilla of that! Liar.

What else is there to do on that island? You don't get a haircut at a whore house. I believe he was on that island 4 to 7 times.

I can think of thousands of things one can do on an island other than have sex with a minor. I think you have a serious problem if you think that is all one can do.

So on an island known for sex, a man like Clinton who can't respect the office of president has a reason not to partake? You know it happened.

Your reason for going to that island? Name what else they do there. And show some proof.