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Fox & Friends Suggests The January Job Numbers Are Made Up To Make President Obama Look Good

During the morning train wreck known as Fox & Friends on Monday, hosts Eric Bolling, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlson discussed the positive January jobs report numbers, suggesting that the Labor Department doctored the numbers to help President Obama look good.

I predict Fox will keep pushing this meme and by November its viewers will blow off the employment numbers altogether.

Question is, what to do if a Republican wins in November and the numbers continue to be good?

They’ll pause for two or three months and then they’ll throw it into reverse.  Their drugged viewers won’t notice a thing.

Ed devoted his entire radio show today to ♥loving♥ the ad and as of 8:26 p.m. ET, he’s spent half an hour talking about it on his TV show.

What a tool.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman says he’s ruling out another political bid this year but is leaving open the possibility of a future run.

In his first public comments since abandoning his presidential race, Huntsman told The Salt Lake Tribune that he plans to serve on some corporation boards [calling all companies who want to expand their business into China], do some volunteer work and go on a speaker circuit as well as possibly taking some yet-to-be-named news media gig [hey, Fox could claim he's their "liberal"]. But, for now, he’s taking a break from the political scene.

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Amazing.  This is a former presidential candidate who told us he had a passion for changing/helping/reforming the country and he’s going to spend his down-time serving on corporate boards [easy as hell money], raking in thousands of dollars on the speaker’s circuit and bloviating on teevee [he could play a liberal on Fox!]?

What a fraud.

And no, The New Republic isn’t a flaming liberal rag, it’s conservative, so I find this choice of cover photo pretty darn interesting.  This is one of the ugliest pictures I’ve ever seen of anyone.

Maybe they’re trying to “humanize” him.

Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.

They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances — efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

What struck me about the article wasn’t the UN conspiracy theory angle; that’s been around for a long time.  What I noticed was the accompanying photo:

At a Roanoke County, Va., meeting, dozens opposed the county's paying $1,200 to a nonprofit. Photo: Jared Soares for The New York Times

Check out the age demographic.

Image: Wikipedia

After decades of drilling, Russian scientists have finally managed to pierce through Antarctica’s ice sheet to reveal the secrets of a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, that has been sealed there for the past 20 million years, a scientific source said on Monday.

“Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake,” the source said.

Explorers hope Lake Vostok, which is the largest of Antarctica’s buried network of icebound lakes and also one of the largest lakes in the world, could reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age.

The discovery of the hidden lakes of Antarctica in the 1990s sparked much enthusiasm among scientists all over the world. Some think the ice cap above and at the edges have created a hydrostatic seal with the surface that has prevented lake water from escaping or anything else from getting inside.

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Wow.  My imagination runs wild over this.  I can’t wait to hear what that lake water tells us.

You gotta love the “liberal media.”

Yes,

WORLD PEACE

Radical liberal shit.

The crowd cheered.

This weekend, millions of Americans will be in front of their televisions, watching the Patriots and Giants battle it out in Super Bowl XLVI. The game, undoubtedly one of the biggest sporting events of the year, is taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Since its doors opened in 2008, the stadium has provided many economic benefits to the community and has hosted concerts, the NCAA Final Four, and many other events that have brought people and money into the city. Moreover, the project was constructed by Indiana’s Building Trades Unions through a Project Labor Agreement (PLA).

Construction of the stadium was funded by the Indianapolis Colts and Indiana taxpayers.

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When asked about the appeal of using union craft labor on the massive project, Barney Levengood, the executive director of the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium, said: “They’re trained. They go through an apprenticeship program. They have skills and are very incredibly safety-oriented.”

The use of Project Labor Agreements in the construction of Lucas Oil Stadium helped coordinate 1,500 professionals from multiple crafts, all working under the same rules. The result was the on-time and on-budget completion of the facility, which boasts a retractable roof, operational windows with views of the Indianapolis skyline, and state-of-the-art electrical, heating, cooling and plumbing systems.

Meanwhile, just last week, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (Republican, of course) signed a right to work for less law, which essentially busts unions and worker rights.

Photo: Wikipedia

in an alleged secret long-term plan to establish a one-world government.

Pretty funny when we see that while citizens in Syria are being massacred by the hundreds by their own government, sadly, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council can’t agree on what to do about it.

A U.N. Security Council effort to end the violence in Syria ended in acrimony and a veto by Russia and China on Saturday, hours after the Syrian military attacked the ravaged city of Homs in what opposition leaders described as the bloodiest government assault in the nearly 11-month-old uprising.

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The Security Council voted, 13-2, in favor of a resolution backing an Arab League peace plan for Syria, which calls for Assad to cede power to his vice president and a unity government to lead Syria to democratic elections. But passage was blocked by Russia and China, which opposed what they saw as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty.

Photo: flickr: Mosa'aberising

Photo: flickr: Mosa'aberising

Photo: flickr: Mosa'aberising

Here is a slide show of what went down there today.

Horrible.

My thoughts are with them ♥.

Take a look at the images on this man’s T-shirt:

MSNBC:

Okaaay.

ROMNEY WINS NEVADA

Don’t forget, we’re talking caucuses here folks.  This is about how roughly 20% of hardcore Republicans voted, never mind the other 80% and independents and Democrats.

The general election will be a whole new ballgame.

Have a fun Saturday night!

Now, on to Maine and Colorado.  (Bleh.)

(Via.)

The intrepid reporter Tim Pool is sending out pictures of some of the signs people are carrying (see them at his link above).  This is my favorite so far:

Ain’t that the truth.

Interesting isn’t it that the usual crowd that screams about cutting government spending isn’t screaming about not going to war again.  When it comes to cuts, they only want to cut the programs that benefit we the people.  Defense contractors?  Not so much.

I love Linda!

Our Tweet of the Day:

Photo: People Magazine

Natural-gas prices are on the floor. Could they go negative?

The probability that wholesale gas prices will drop below $2 per million British thermal units, from today’s almost $2.50, is rising. Gas hasn’t closed below $2 since September 2009. Today’s market shares one critical similarity to then: bulging gas inventories. This overhang of excess supply could crash prices even further this spring.

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Discount Gun Sales is proud to team up with the Susan B. Koman Foundation to offer the Walther P-22 Hope Edition in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A portion of each P-22 Hope Edition will be donated to the Seattle Branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

The P-22 Hope Edition has an exclusive DuraCoat Pink slide in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Utilizing the same reliable controls and firing mechanism that has made the Walther P-22 America’s top selling handgun, the Hope Edition will be a limited production pistol offered exclusively through Discount Gun Sales.

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What a strange organization.  Their actions are so contradictory.  On the one hand they’re trying to save women’s lives, on the other they’re selling guns.

The Komen Foundation has just released the following statement:

We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.

Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.

It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone’s politics.

Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public’s understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.

We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.

Thank you Komen Foundation.

UPDATED @3:04 p.m. ET:

Greg Sargent adds this detail after speaking with a Komen Foundation board member:

I just got off the phone with a Komen board member, and he confirmed that the announcement does not mean that Planned Parenthood is guaranteed future grants — a demand he said would be “unfair” to impose on Komen.

First of all Mr. King, “ppl” don’t have babies.  Women. Have. Babies.

And about that supposed “dying civilization” due to “ppl” not having kids?  Really?  Tomorrow I’ll post some stats about how the planet is dying from overpopulation, not underpopulation.  (I know, you and your crowd want to drown science in the bathtub and you think dumb is good.  Hey, you’re a winner on both of those fronts!)

As for insurers?  Don’t get me started.

Geezus.

Filed under: Dumbed Down, Fear, Repression, Republicans, Including Wingers & "Moderates", WingNutO'Sphere ]]> http://sayitaintsoalready.com/2012/02/02/ppl-having-babies/feed/ 0 melaniekillingervowell Tweet of the Day 2-2-12 http://sayitaintsoalready.com/2012/02/02/three-feet-of-snow-in-denver-yikes/ http://sayitaintsoalready.com/2012/02/02/three-feet-of-snow-in-denver-yikes/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:59:46 +0000 Say It Ain't So Already http://sayitaintsoalready.com/?p=46980 ]]> We here in the Denver area are hunkering down,

anticipating as much as three feet of snow in the next 48-hours:

Denver appears headed to top-10 snowstorm, depending on how much snow falls at the official weather recording station at DIA

A snowfall of 22 inches would be the seventh-biggest snowstorm to ever hit the city, behind 22.7 inches that fell between Oct. 20 and Oct. 23, 1906.

“I wouldn’t be surprised, by the time it’s all said and done, if some areas get 3 feet, maybe down in Douglas County or up against the foothills,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Entrekin.

Flurries are expected to begin about dusk and pick up momentum about 11 p.m. then snow steadily through Sunday morning.

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I’m in Boulder, “up against the foothills,” and the flurries have just begun.

Looking forward to a cozy day (or three).  Embarrassed to say it usually takes something like this to slow me down.

#IHopeToSleepIn (until 7:00 a.m. instead of 5:00).

#ThePuppiesWillHavePeanutButterKongsandGetLotsofKisses.

#PrayThePowerDoesn’tGoOut.

And here’s a heads up regarding a kickass post by a Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog (Kivi is a PR consultant) about how the Komen Foundation essentially rebranded itself overnight on Tuesday.  It went from what people thought of as an organization dedicated to women’s health, to what people now perceive as a right-wing political tool.

Alabama Republican Senator: Low teacher Pay Mandated by God

A Republican State Senator from Alabama claimed this week that keeping teacher salaries low is actually an order from the Christian deity figure, imparted in ancient texts written by Jewish tribesmen thousands of years ago.

Speaking at a prayer breakfast recently, Alabama state Senator Shadrack McGill praised giving pay raises to politicians, saying that it helps to prevent bribery. Then he shifted gears and went in the opposite direction with regards to teachers, arguing against a bill that would increase their salaries.

“Teachers need to make the money that they need to make,” he said, according to Alabama newspaper The Times-Journal. “There needs to be a balance there. If you double what you’re paying education, you know what’s going to happen? I’ve heard the comment many times, ‘Well, the quality of education’s going to go up.’ That’s never proven to happen, guys.

“It’s a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher’s pay scale, you’ll attract people who aren’t called to teach. To go and raise someone’s child for eight hours a day, or many people’s children for eight hours a day, requires a calling. It better be a calling in your life. I know I wouldn’t want to do it, OK?”

He continued: “And these teachers that are called to teach, regardless of the pay scale, they would teach. It’s just in them to do. It’s the ability that God give ‘em. And there are also some teachers, it wouldn’t matter how much you would pay them, they would still perform to the same capacity. “If you don’t keep that in balance, you’re going to attract people who are not called, who don’t need to be teaching our children. So, everything has a balance.”

Huzzah!

10, 15, 40 years ago, this wouldn’t have made the news.  It would have been thought of as, literally, crazy; the rant of a religious nut.

These are my two favorites:

Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt at Night from Space – 10/28/10

I love this one of northeastern Africa because wow, the importance of the Nile River can’t be ignored.

Florida at Night from Space – 10/31/10

And this one of Florida is beautiful because the outline of the state is so clear.

Again, check all the photos out at the link above.  Really neat.

Welcome to the home of the Christian Porn movement.  Our mission is to clean up that which is currently known as “pornographic” videos, movies, or films. All filmed sexual acts in the Christian Porn genre are genuine intentions to create life, performed by heterosexual married Christian couples.  As acts of procreation they are not immoral, illicit, or dirty, but expressions of love between husband and wife, who are in love with each other exclusively. None of the acts are unnatural or adulterous.  We feel the viewing of an expression of love shared by a married man and woman is one of the most beautiful and natural gifts bestowed to us by God.  Praise God, brothers and sisters.

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This from “One Million Moms:”

One Million Moms — a project of the American Family Association — is very angry at JC Penney.

No, not because it sells sweater vests (heck, Rick Santorum is a fan of those), but because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.

And DeGeneres is — cue the scary music — gay, and open about it.

“Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,” the million (or so) moms write on their website. “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there.”

One Million Moms is asking people to call JC Penney to complain.

This is the American Taliban talking.  Don’t listen JC Penny.

(I wonder how many moms actually belong to “OneMillionMoms.”)

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, responding to the controversy over a breast cancer advocacy group that cut off most of its grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening, said on Thursday that he would make up a large part of the missing money.

Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire with a long-term interest in public health, said he would give Planned Parenthood Federation of America a $250,000 matching gift — he will donate $1 for every new dollar Planned Parenthood raises up to $250,000.

“Politics have no place in health care,” he said in a statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way.”

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Bravo!  I think that is what most of us thought the Komen Foundation’s philosophy was too, until yesterday.

If you want to donate to Planned Parenthood and take advantage of Bloomberg’s matching-funds pledge, go here.

Hee hee.