The boycott of MSNBC might have ended, but RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says the network is still on “probation.”
“In their professed world of tolerance, they’re sure hitting on all eight cylinders of intolerance,” Priebus said Thursday of MSNBC while on Fox News’s “Hannity.”
Following a tweet by MSNBC’s account late Wednesday suggesting the Republican party hates interracial marriages, Priebus sent a letter Thursday to MSNBC president Phil Griffin saying all staff members and surrogates would not appear on the network until there was an apology.
Rep. Michael Grimm threatens reporter with bodily harm
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) got into an altercation with a reporter following Tuesday’s State of the Union address, during which Grimm threatened to throw the reporter over a balcony.
Grimm initially defended his behavior, but by late Wednesday morning he apologized.
Death Penalty for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon bombing suspect?
Holder informed the Senate Judiciary Committee he would decide by the Jan. 31 deadline whether to seek the death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
“We’ll be announcing that by the deadline,” he said.
Let’s keep it simple. Should Holder seek the death penalty for Dzhokar Tsarnaev?
It should be painful to be stupid
Jim Cantore is tired of people messing with him when he reports the weather. He caught this student running at him out of the corner of his eye and let him have it. I hope the student needed an ice pack once Cantore finished with him.
The State of the Union Address, 2014
The State of the Union, 2014. So how do you see things? How is the Prez doing? Is it my imagination or does it seem there is just a lot less rancor this year than in years past?
Your comments please. How do you see the state of our union?
Pete Seeger: 1919–2014 RIP, Pete
What a life! Pete Seeger has made more contributions to American folk music than just about any other individual. Woodie Guthrie and Bob Dylan probably rival his sheer volume but I don’t think they passed it.
Msn.com reports:
With his lanky frame, use-worn banjo and full white beard, Seeger was an iconic figure in folk music who outlived his peers. He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and wrote or co-wrote “If I Had a Hammer,” ”Turn, Turn, Turn,” ”Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.” He lent his voice against Hitler and nuclear power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an affable air and his fingers poised over the strings of his banjo.
Seeger was a political activist and a folk singer. He was married to the same woman for 70 years. His wife died just last year. Pete Seeger’s career was significantly damaged by McCarthyism.
John McCain censured
PHOENIX — The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative.
The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed signatures from at least 20 percent of state committee members to reach the floor for debate.
Sifert said no further action was expected.
Are those people out there nuts? What, pray tell, is McCain liberal about? Apparently there is a litmus test for real. AZ Republicans are really over the top with this gesture.
Judge rules pregnant brain dead woman must have life support removed
FORT WORTH — A Texas judge ruled on Friday that a Fort Worth hospital must remove the life support of a pregnant brain-dead woman, siding with the husband and family in a case that has drawn national attention.
The judge, R. H. Wallace Jr. of State District Court in Tarrant County, ordered John Peter Smith Hospital to pronounce the woman, Marlise Muñoz, dead, and remove her from life support by 5 p.m. on Monday.
Ms. Muñoz, 33, has been on life support since Nov. 26, when she collapsed on her kitchen floor from what appeared to be a blood clot in her lung. She was 14 weeks pregnant. Ms. Muñoz’s husband, Erick Muñoz, 26, as well as her mother and father, said they were told by the hospital that she was brain-dead. They said they had asked the doctors to remove her from respirators, as Ms. Muñoz had urged them to do if she was ever in that situation.
Doctors refused, citing a state law that prevents them from withdrawing or withholding “life-sustaining treatment” from a pregnant patient, and her husband filed suit asking a judge to order the doctors to remove her from the machines.
Mr. Muñoz’s lawyer argued Friday that keeping her on life support would set a dangerous precedent in future cases of pregnant brain-dead women.
Huckabee and “Uncle Sugar,” whoever he is….
I thought Mike Huckabee was smarter than this. Obviously, he ignores the figurative speech about War on Women. He would be ok if we didn’t have the slut-shame attempt aimed at Sandra Fluke, aspirin remarks coming from GOP high donors, and countless bills aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood and other centers that receive Title X funding. He would be ok if there weren’t efforts to deny birth control to women going around every corner. He would be OK if literally hundreds of new laws weren’t passed in state legislatures by Republican politicians that restrict reproductive rights, via any hook or crook they could think of.
Leopards don’t change their spots…or do they?
It sounds like Glenn Beck has pulled in his horns quite a bit and perhaps realizes how many ill-informed people hung on his every word.
Cat Scratch Racist rears his ugly head…again
Ted Nugent said:
“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America”.
How long is the NRA going to harbor this racist pig? It’s time for them to fire him and disassociate themselves from Nugent if they want to remain a viable organization. At what point does his behavior simply make the NRA a redneck organization?
Free speech be damned. He can say whatever he wants. At some point, however, the NRA is going to have to take ownership of his remarks as long as he sits on their board of directors. If I were the NRA and the NRA my parents used to belong to, I would want to at least try to sound like the voice of reason.
Additional offensive remarks by Nugent.
AG Herring believes Va ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring will announce Thursday that he believes the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and that Virginia will join two same-sex couples in asking a federal court to strike it down, according to an official close to the attorney general with knowledge about the decision.
The action will mark a stunning reversal in the state’s legal position on same-sex marriage and is a result of November elections in which Democrats swept the state’s top offices. Herring’s predecessor, Republican Ken Cuccinelli II, adamantly opposes gay marriage and had vowed to defend Virginia’s constitutional amendment banning such unions, which was passed in 2006 with the support of 57 percent of voters.
Herring, too, had voted against same-sex marriage eight years ago, when he was a state senator. But he has said that his views have changed since then and that on Thursday he will file a supportive brief in a lawsuit in Norfolk that challenges the state’s ban, said two people familiar with his plans.
Old Sparky: Trying to make a comeback
RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers, facing a shortage of the drugs used to perform lethal injections, are moving toward re-embracing use of the electric chair.
The House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday that would make electrocution the default method of death for condemned prisoners if lethal injection is not available. Currently, electrocution is used only at the request of the inmate sentenced to die.
Virginia, like other states that allow capital punishment, is struggling with a shortage of the drugs used to execute prisoners. European manufacturers will not sell chemicals for use in executions, and a major U.S. supplier halted production in 2011.
Old Dominion News: McDonnells and Wexton
There are lots of significant developments in Virginia today. Former Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen have both been indicted for accepting money and gifts while McDonnell was governor. The charges are federal. McDonnell maintains his innocence.
This situation is very embarrassing for Virginia. While it doesn’t appear that any Virginia laws have been broken, the feds feel that federal law has been violated.
On a happier note, at least for me, Democrat Jennifer Wexton has won the special election for the vacant seat created when Mark Herring was declared winner of the Attorney General race. This win is significant because the Democrats will control the Virginia Senate if Lt. Governor Ralph Northam’s former seat is won by a Democrat. A special election will be held.
Congratulations, Jennifer.
Virginia Creationism: Dickie Bell’s Bill
HB 207
§ 22.1-207.6. Instruction in science.
A. The Board and each local school board, division superintendent, and school board employee shall create an environment in public elementary and secondary schools that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about scientific controversies in science classes.
B. The Board and each local school board, division superintendent, and school board employee shall assist teachers to find effective ways to present scientific controversies in science classes.
C. Neither the Board nor any local school board, division superintendent, or school board employee shall prohibit any public elementary or secondary school teacher from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in science classes.
D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to promote or discriminate against any religious or nonreligious doctrine, promote or discriminate against a particular set of religious beliefs or nonbeliefs, or promote or discriminate against religion or nonreligion.
I just wonder what all this blather means. Since when do teachers need protection to cover the SOL objectives in science? I am not sure that most students have the background to argue their point of view on a particular science theory. Could it be????? About…RELIGION? [best Church Lady voice]
