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Key House Republican (from ing TX of course) says 70% of NSF’s research dollars should go to “core” science -- not geo or social research
http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2...cience-not-geo
iow, defund climate science
Texas attorney general tells CNN: Gays can ‘feel how they want’ but marriage is for straight people
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested on Wednesday that a bill that would prevent county clerks from issuing or recognizing same-sex marriage licenses was reaffirming the will of the voters of the state.
“We passed a cons utional amendment [banning same-sex marriage] in 2005, it was overwhelmingly approved by the voters,” Paxton told CNN host Alisyn Camerota.
“That’s our background here.”
Camerota noted that as recently as two years ago, polls showed that support for marriage equality in Texas was evenly split.
“If Texas follows national trend lines, we’ve seen support tick up for same-sex marriage,” she pointed out. “So, why pass a law that would apply to everyone?”
Paxton, however, argued that the “real poll” happened on election day.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/texas-attorney-general-tells-cnn-gays-can-feel-how-they-want-but-marriage-is-for-straight-people/
Key House Republican (from ing TX of course) says 70% of NSF’s research dollars should go to “core” science -- not geo or social research
http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2...cience-not-geo
iow, defund climate science
Anti-Government Resistance Now The Beating Heart Of GOP
“Twenty years ago,” I wrote, “the idea of anti-government resistance seemed confined to a lunatic fringe operating in the shadows beyond the mainstream. Twenty years later, it is the mainstream, the beating heart of the Republican Party. And while certainly no responsible figure on the right advocates or condones what he did, it is just as certain that McVeigh’s violent antipathy toward Washington, his conviction that America’s government is America’s enemy, has bound itself to the very DNA of modern conservatism.”
That’s the argument conservatives found “hateful” “sickening,” and “dishonest.”
So it is, depending upon your religious outlook, a fortuitous coincidence or superfluous evidence of God’s puckish sense of humor that a few days later comes news of conservatives accusing the federal government of trying to take over the state of Texas. It seems the four branches of the U.S. military are gearing up for Operation Jade Helm 15, an eight-week training exercise across seven states. Right-wing conspiracy theorists online and on radio are claiming the exercise is actually a pretext for a federal takeover of the Lone Star State, with — get this — abandoned Walmarts to be used for the processing of prisoners!
Nor is this being laughed off by conservatives in positions of authority. To the contrary, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has orderedthe state guard to monitor the exercise to safeguard Texan’s “civil liberties.” Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert has asked the military to change the exercise. Senator and presidential wannabe Ted Cruz said he checked with the Pentagon and while he accepts that it has no plans to conquer Texas — how magnanimous of him — “I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty” because the Obama administration “has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy.”
Forgive me if I don’t spend a lot of space pointing out that this is stupid, though I can’t resist asking: If the Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force were, indeed, planning to take over Texas, just what does Gov. Abbott think the state guard would be able to do about it?
http://www.nationalmemo.com/anti-gov...-heart-of-gop/
Wyoming Makes Reporting Environmental Disasters Illegal
Techdirt has written several times about so-called "ag-gag" laws, which have the strange effect of making it illegal for members of the public to expose animal abuse on farms. Slate has a fascinating report about how Wyoming is bringing in its own kind of ag-gag law that is so wide in its reach that it could make taking photos in Yellowstone illegal:
photos are a type of data, and the new law makes it a crime to gather data about the condition of the environment across most of the state if you plan to share that data with the state or federal government.
The specificity of that restriction sounds absurd. Why on earth would anyone want to prevent environmental data being gathered? Here's why:
The state wants to conceal the fact that many of its streams are contaminated by E. coli bacteria, strains of which can cause serious health problems, even death.
The reason the state is trying to do that is because the E. coli in question comes from cows, and cows have clout in Wyoming:
Acknowledging that fact could result in rules requiring ranchers who graze their cows on public lands to better manage their herds. The ranching community in Wyoming wields considerable political power and has no interest in such obligations, so the state is trying to stop the flow of information rather than forthrightly address the problem.
The law is framed broadly: it makes it a crime to "preserve information in any form" about "open land" if there is any intention to submit it to a federal or state agency. That means that if you discovered a major environmental disaster in Wyoming, no matter how life-threatening, you had better keep information about it to yourself. As the Slate post points out:Now that's what I call an ag-gag law.
By enacting this law, the Wyoming legislature has expressed its disdain for the freedoms protected by the First Amendment and the environmental protections enshrined in federal statutes. Today, environmentally conscious citizens face a stark choice: They can abandon efforts to protect the lands they love or face potential criminal charges.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...-illegal.shtml
House Passes Bill To Block EPA Proposal That Would Protect Millions Of Miles Of Streams
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a bill this week that would block a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clarify what streams, tributaries and wetlands can be protected under the Clean Water Act.
The proposed Waters of the United States rule would help protect the one third of Americans who get their drinking water from sources that are currently without oversight, said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. Opponents said the proposed rule is regulatory overreach, and farm organizations voiced concern that the EPA would start checking up on agricultural ditches and seasonal puddles — bodies of water that are currently not regulated by the Clean Water Act.
“In no way do we intend to reduce the exclusions or exemptions that are currently in the Clean Water Act,” McCarthy said at a hearing in February. “Our goal in this rule is very straightforward. It is to respond to requests from stakeholders across the country to make the process of identifying waters protected under the Clean Water Act easier to understand, to make it more predictable and more consistent with the law and peer-reviewed science.”
The proposed Waters of the U.S. rule would offer protection to two million miles of streams and 20 million acres of wetlands. Right now, those areas are not clearly designated under the Clean Water Act.
A report by the Science Advisory Board last year found that regulating these bodies of water is critical to protecting America’s water system. “The available science supports the conclusion that the types of water bodies identified as waters of the United States in the proposed rule exert strong influence on the physical, biological, and chemical integrity of downstream waters,” the report states.
The House bill, which was introduced by Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), would force the EPA and the Secretary of the Army to halt the proposed rule and develop a new one after additional discussions with state and local officials.
According to environmentalists, the bill is just another attack on the EPA’s oversight on polluters.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...te+Progress%29
Tennessee Republican who pressured mistress to have abortion votes to restrict them for other women
On Wednesday, 242 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to outlaw abortions taking place after 20 weeks gestation. Among them, Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who has defended his ex-wife having two abortions, and who pressured one of his mistresses to have an abortion after she told him she was pregnant.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/tennessee-republican-who-pressured-mistress-to-have-abortion-votes-to-restrict-them-for-other-women/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Scott Walker: Visiting six countries makes me ‘the most’ qualified to be president on foreign policy
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/scot...e+Raw+Story%29
The Old Lesbian talks tough
Lindsey Graham Running For President, Will Kill You For Your Thoughts If Elected
http://wonkette.com/585882/lindsey-graham-running-for-president-will-kill-you-for-your-thoughts-if-elected
South Carolina!
Confederacy!
Racist SOUTHERN Baptists!
... The Old Lesbian says he's having a lot of "fun" running without a chance of being nominated. "Serious" Repugs run for the fun of it. Same story from Noot Gingrinch a few years ago, burned through several $10Ms, having fun.
36+ month Pres campaigns are nothing but business, certainly useless, inimical to democracy.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-19-2015 at 08:41 AM.
Orwell Alert!
Jeb Bush says 'a tolerant country' should support the right to discriminate
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...-discriminate#
The Boyz from FLA, dumb-and-shrubber too, then Rubio, are two stupid ing cretins.
Shariah Law Panic In Idaho!!!
Jeopardizes US Role In Child-Support Treaty
jeopardizes U.S. participation in an international treaty that aims to make it easier for parents worldwide to collect child-support payments.
Critics have given passionate, emotional testimony, reiterating fears that killed the bill last month. They've called the legislation an uncons utional overreach by the federal government that could allow Islamic law to influence U.S. courts.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sh...+%28TPMNews%29
Magic Negro Messiah OVERREACH!
ISIS and SHARIA gonna kill us all!
Louie Gohmert: Bush would never have invaded Iraq if he knew Obama would come along and bungle it
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/loui...e+Raw+Story%29
ing Texas!
ing EAST Texas
Kansas Poised To Grant Top Voter Suppression Architect The Power To Criminally Prosecute People
A bill that could head to the Kansas governor’s desk this week would give Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) the authority to prosecute cases of voter fraud. If signed, the legislation would grant him even more power to make voting a political issue and to intimidate and suppress voters from participating in elections.
The state House on Wednesday narrowly gave initial approval to the legislation, which would allow Kobach and future secretaries of state to bypass the attorney general to prosecute election crimes, a responsibility not typically given to the person delegated with running elections. The bill would also upgrade a number of election crimes to felonies from misdemeanors.
Kobach, who has notoriously attempted to purge the state’s voter rolls and pushed for the enactment of a voter ID law, told the Topeka Captial-Journal that “the vote on the bill comes not a moment too soon.”
Kobach claims he has identified 100 cases of potential voting in the 2014 election — a tiny percentage of the total number of votes cast.
But even if he were to bring cases against the people who allegedly voted twice, similar investigations by other state attorneys general have found that most instances of alleged voter fraud are the result ofvoter confusion or mistakes made by election officials and not deliberate attempts to commit fraud.
When federal investigators looked into Kobach’s claims of voter fraud in the past, they determined the cases were not actually fraud.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...e-voter-fraud/
KS, just another ing Repug/VRWC/Kock Bros dystopia.
Everyone, Even Republican Voters, Think GOP Leaders In Congress Are Doing A Lousy Job
A Pew Research Poll released on May 21, 2015, finds that Americans are unhappy with the Republican leadership in Congress.
72 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the current GOP leadership in Congress is doing, to just 22 percent who approve of their job performance.Democrats and Independents are not the only ones discontent with the current Republican leadership in Congress.
Even a majority of Republicans are unhappy with Boehner, McConnell and the other Republican leaders in the House and Senate.
55 percent of Republicans disapprove of their party’s Congressional leaders, to just 41 percent who view them favorably.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/...iticus+USA+%29
What's wrong, Repug voters?
Not enough laws and regs from Repugs about god/guns/gays/xenophobia/racism/abortion/vaginas/rape?
Alabama’s chief justice: The ‘pursuit of happiness’ means following the Bible
The “pursuit of happiness” mentioned in the Declaration of Independence refers to following biblical teachings,
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/alabamas-chief-justice-the-pursuit-of-happiness-means-following-the-bible/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Alabama!
Christian Taliban!
Confederacy!
Texas governor signs bill to speed up permits for industrial projects by limiting public scrutiny
Abbot showing his has the 99% and the environment by the BALLS
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed legislation aiming to quicken regulators’ pace of cranking out permits for major industrial projects by limiting public scrutiny — another victory for a wide range of industries and a blow to consumer and environmental advocates.
Senate Bill 709, which will now become law Sept. 1, is intended to scale back contested-case hearings, a process that allows the public to challenge industrial applications for permits at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), such as those allowing wastewater discharges or air pollution emissions.
Led by state Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, and state Rep. Geanie Morrison, R-Victoria, supporters argued that Texas’ current slow-moving bureaucracy was driving would-be employers into Louisiana and other neighboring states, and that the legislation – signed on Saturday – would give them more certainty here.
“We’re losing a lot of jobs to surrounding states,” Fraser said in April. “This is clearly for economic development.” ( Here's the ETERNAL REPUG LYING )
But critics are worried that limiting the process would stifle what little voice everyday Texans have when manufacturers, chemical plants, landfills and other high-polluting businesses set up shop in their communities.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/texa...blic-scrutiny/
Enrich/protect/enable BigCorp and the 1%, screw the 99% and the environment.
Koch-Republicans Remember Soldiers’ Sacrifice With A Veterans Healthcare Coupon Scam
Since Barack Obama has been in office, Republicans have predictably blocked each and every Democratic attempt to increase funding for Veteran’s services whether it is better access to healthcare or providing assistance to find living-wage jobs.
In the 2012 general election, Republican presidential candidate Willard Romney floated an idea favored by the Koch brothers of giving America’s Veterans a limited dollar amount coupon to get healthcare privately they received for free through the Veterans Administration. Now, another Republican,
Jeb Bush, is the first GOP presidential candidate thus far to propose that the best way to show appreciation to America’s Veterans is the Koch brothers’ plan to privatize the VA and issue a set dollar-amount coupon to be redeemed at private hospitals, private doctors’ offices, or health insurance carriers.
The Koch group began seriously pushing its Republican lackeys to create a “premium-support private insurance option” for Veterans healthcare services when drastically underfunded VA hospital could not provide timely services to Veterans. The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
While Republicans envision punishing over 8 million veterans enrolled to receive a wide range of services through the VA with a coupon and higher out-of-pocket expenses, the Kochs see potential profits from privateers.
Privatization means corporations will profit from the annual “89.7 million outpatient visits” and over “236,000 health care appointments per day” of Veterans at no charge because they served their country and survived. The Koch goal, like all GOP privatization scams is leaving over 8 million veterans, tens-of-thousands with combat-related injuries, without coverage or services; it is the how the GOP supports the troops after they send them to fight unnecessary wars of aggression.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/...iticus+USA+%29
And TBclaims health care is not a Red vs Blue question!
SENATOR INHOFE: PATRIOT ACT CRITICS FORGET THAT NORTH KOREA, IRAQ ON PATH TO “KILL EVERYONE”
Inhofe dismissed his cons uents, claiming that privacy advocates don’t understand that “we’re in the most threatened position in the history of this country.”
The senator argued “countries like North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, all of them are on the path to getting bombs and delivery systems that would reach the United States of America and could have the effect of killing everyone who is listening now.”
Inhofe went on to say that “everyone in the leadership except the president of the United States” recognizes the threat he was describing, adding, “when you stop and think and make a choice between having a complete city bombed out and privacy, my choice is easy.”
he is focused on working to “stop the EPA over-regulation that’s killing our farmers and a lot of our businesspeople.”
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/22/sen-jim-inhofe-says-patriot-act-opponents-dont-understand-north-korea-path-kill-everyone/
$1T per year on MIC and Corporate empire defense, and still USA is scared less about ISIS, Ebola, North Korea, black thugs.
Oklahoma!
red states!
Repugs!
Creationist: If evolution is true, then it wasn’t wrong for Josh Duggar to molest his sisters
Eric Hovind — son of imprisoned creationist theme park operator Kent Hovind
“If evolution is true, then there is no absolute right and wrong,” Hovind said.
“If evolution is true Josh should not have admitted his faults over a decade ago because what one evolved bag of molecules does to another bag of molecules just doesn’t really matter.
If evolution is true there is no ultimate Judge on the bench who will hold every man, woman, and child responsible for their actions.
And if evolution is true you will not give an account for every idle word you speak.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/creationist-pastor-if-evolution-is-true-then-it-wasnt-wrong-for-josh-duggar-to-molest-his-sisters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Repug base!
UNC "system" to be transformed into vocational school by Repugs/VRWC/Kock Bros/BigCorp
46 Degree Programs Eliminated Across UNC College System
I guess the North Carolina Board of Governors educational planning committee for the University educational system didn't think these programs were important to our education of our young adults, or warranted due to "market forces"...
“We’re capitalists, and we have to look at what the demand is, and we have to respond to the demand.” - Board member Steven Long.
So now our college educational system, of which North Carolin's had been the example and envy of most of the state systems in this country, is under the scrutiny of "market forces". Want to see which one they eliminated from the main univesity campus of UNC in Chapel Hill?
Thursday morning, the Board of Governors educational planning committee voted to discontinue 46 degree programs across the UNC-System, including one at UNC-Chapel Hill: human biology
"Human Biology"????W.T.F.?
Follow me below to view the degree programs to be eliminated, and from which campuses....
From the desk of: "We Don't Need No Stink'n Education" department, discontinued degree programs:
Appalachian State University: Family and Consumer Sciences, Secondary Education; Technology Education; Mathematics, EducationElizabeth City State University: Special Education, General Curriculum; Middle Grades Education; English, Secondary Education; Political ScienceEast Carolina University: French K-12; German K-12; Hispanic Studies Education; German; French; Public History; Special Education, Intellectual Disabilities; Vocational Education
Fayetteville State University: Art Education; Music Education; Biotechnology
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University: Comprehensive Science Education; Physical Education
North Carolina Central University: Theatre; Jazz
North Carolina State University: Africana Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies; Business and Marketing Education; Physiology
UNC-Charlotte: Child and Family Development; Special Education, Adapted Curriculum; English Education; Mathematics Education
UNC-Chapel Hill: Human Biology
UNC-Greensboro: Mathematics, Secondary Education (BA); Mathematics, Secondary Education (BS); Economics, Secondary Education; Biology, Secondary Education (BA); Biology, Secondary Education (BS); Composition; Latin Education; Biochemistry
UNC School of the Arts: Film Music Composition
UNC-Wilmington: Physical Education and Health; Music Performance
Western Carolina University: Health Information Administration
Winston-Salem State University: Biotechnology; Elementary Education; Teaching English as a Second Language and Linguistics
Yes sir, this is your state government on A.L.E.C./Koch brothers/Art Pope control. This is what the "Free Market" world looks like, and it isn't just limited to how many different types of toothpaste, or canned beans you have available at your local grocery store.Read it and weep as this could be the future of your state's educational system at a university branch near you.
Pathetic. Read all about it.....
http://www.dailytarheel.com/...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...ail=emailtest#
Pope Francis’ climate change beliefs compared to Aztec human sacrifices at Koch-funded event
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/watc...e+Raw+Story%29
Kock Bros and BigCarbon are a bigger threat to USA than ISIS.
‘Breathtaking in its stupidity': Wisconsin GOP bill would allow high school dropouts to teach high school
Republicans lawmakers in Wisconsin have proposed a rule change that would allow high school dropouts to be licensed to teach in public schools, which critics have slammed as “breathtaking in its stupidity.”
DPI would be required to “issue a teaching permit for individuals who have not earned a bachelor’s degree, or potentially a high school diploma, to teach in any subject area, excluding the core subjects of mathematics, English, science, and social studies.”
DPI also pointed out that the state would be banned from placing any additional requirements on school staff, including background checks and fingerprinting.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/breathtaking-in-its-stupidity-wisconsin-gop-bill-would-allow-high-school-dropouts-to-teach-high-school/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Texas County Shuts Down Militia's Hope Of Becoming its Official 'Military Force'
A southeast Texas county on Tuesday put the kibosh on a resolution that would've made it the first in the Lone Star State to designate a county militia.
David W. Smith, the leader of a group called the Golden Triangle Militia, has been working toward getting Orange County to recognize his group for about a year and a half.
He told TPM in an interview last week that Texas law already enshrines his group's right to exist as part of the state's military forces,
but he wanted the Orange County Commissioner's Court to follow the law and formally recognize the Golden Triangle Militia so that its members could lend a hand as needed.
County Judge Brint Carlton said in the meeting that "the county, by way of this resolution, had no intention and still has no intention of creating a militia,"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Gun activist calls on Texans to arrest and hang state lawmakers after open carry bill is delayed
“I’m calling for the arrest of every elected official in Texas that voted against open carry,” Watkins said. “They should be arrested, charged with treason and should face a punishment that could result in being hung from the tree of liberty.”
“And let me remind you – going against the Cons ution is treason, and, my friend, that is punishable by death. That’s how serious this is.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/gun-activist-calls-on-texans-to-arrest-and-hang-state-lawmakers-after-open-carry-bill-is-delayed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
guns and religion, ing up America for self-aggrandizement and profit
... and if he were black, fomenting violence against state employees?
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