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Rep. Gohmert Demands Answers from Attorney General Holder- “Your job is JUSTICE”
A very livid Rep. Gohmert doesn’t hold back in hammering Holder this morning over his refusal to provide Congress with requested documents on the 2008 Holy Land Foundation case, documents that Gohmert says Holder has already provided to the terrorists that were a part of the case. Gohmert also hammered him for not being outraged enough to find out who authorized Fast and Furious.
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You know, I could become a great yankees fan!
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At long last, more than 80 pending concussion-related lawsuits have been consolidated in a “master complaint” — filed today in Philadelphia — that accuses the NFL of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries. Plaintiffs intend to hold the NFL responsible for the care of players now suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other neurological conditions.
Former Eagles and Patriots running back Kevin Turner is a plaintiff with Lou Gehrig’s disease:
I want this game to be around, to be a great sport, a sport that my own boys will be able to play and enjoy all the benefits I believe that football has.
Let’s face it and be honest, I feel like the NFL has over the past decades — at least until ’08 or ’09 — kind of turned a blind eye to the seriousness of not only concussions… but the cumulative effect of (hits) and how these retired players are having so much difficulty in getting along in their daily lives.
The suit accuses the NFL of “mythologizing” and glorifying violence:
The NFL, like the sport of boxing, was aware of the health risks associated with repetitive blows producing sub-concussive and concussive results and the fact that some members of the NFL player population were at significant risk of developing long-term brain damage and cognitive decline as a result.
Despite its knowledge and controlling role in governing player conduct on and off the field, the NFL turned a blind eye to the risk and failed to warn and/or impose safety regulations governing this well-recognized health and safety problem.
According to an Associated Press review of 81 lawsuits filed through May 25, the plaintiffs include 2,138 former players. The master suit contains a provision to allow other players to join it as plaintiffs and attorneys expect that to happen.
From HERE.
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So, how come the liberal media is not calling him a racist? Can you imagine if some guy from the right had said this?
Chris Rock: ‘We Ignore the President’s Whiteness, But It’s There’
Comedian Chris Rock appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to promote his role in “Madagascar 3.”
“Today Show” host Ann Curry asked Rock what animal he could be if he could choose anything. After considering the lion (“king of the jungle and all that”) and the snake (“scare people, sssssss!”), Rock decided he’d stick with “Marty the Zebra”, joking that it was “in honor of our zebra president, black and white, white and black.” Rock added “I love our president, you know, but he’s black and white, he appeals to all,” Rock said. “That’s what I’m going for….We ignore the President’s whiteness, but it’s there, it’s there,” Rock smiled and said.
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Now the bets are on to see if this racist attorney general will do something.
A number of conservative bloggers allege they have been targeted through the use of harassment tactics such as SWAT-ting (fooling 911 operators into sending emergency teams to their homes), in retaliation for posts they have written, and now Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., has stepped into the matter. He has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to investigate the SWAT-ting cases to see if federal laws have been violated.
“I am writing with concern regarding recent reports that several members of the community of online political commentators have been targeted with harassing and frightening actions. Any potentially criminal action that incites fear, seeks to silence a dissenting opinion, and collaterally wastes the resources of law enforcement should be given close scrutiny at all levels,” Chambliss wrote in the letter.
“Regardless of any potential political differences that may exist, threats and intimidation have no place in our national political discourse. Those who choose to enter into that political discourse should not have to worry about potential threats to their or their family’s safety,” Chambliss continued. “While I am certain that local law enforcement is reviewing each of these instances, I am asking you to please look into each of these cases as well to determine if any federal laws may have been violated. Future targets of SWAT-ting, whether engaged in political speech or not, may not be so fortunate as to escape physical harm.”
ABC News spoke with two prominent conservative bloggers who were victims of SWAT-ting, a hoax tactic used by some hackers to infiltrate a victim’s phone system, often through voice over IP (VOIP) technology to make calls appear as if they are coming from a residence. The perpetrators call police to report a violent crime at that home to which the police respond, sometimes with SWAT teams.
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Some irony here.
A day before deriding big drinks and fattening foods at a conference in Washington, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter was at a ribbon cutting for a new Shake Shack in Philadelphia. Photo from @shakeshak
With the first place Washington Nationals repeatedly walloping the last place Phillies this year, you’d think Philadelphia know-it-alls would steer clear of D.C., especially those who can’t back up their bragging.
But that wasn’t the case Thursday when Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter came to Washington to give the keynote address at the National Soda Summit on Capitol Hill. He came with a message very similar to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: people are fat because they eat too much and drink too many sodas.
“Sugary drinks, like soda, fruit drinks and sweetened teas, are the single largest sources of sugar in the American diet,” Nutter said, according to the text of his speech. “On average, Americans drink 20 ounces of soda a day,” he said, adding that Bloomberg’s proposed ban on sugared sodas larger than 16 ounces “is worth evaluating.”
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What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon
Unnerved by an unspoken mix of political bias and racial queasiness, the major media have chosen to know as little about Trayvon Martin as they know about Barack Obama.
As a case in point, consider this boy vs. man fable spun by the New York Times‘ Charles Blow:
A boy’s blood had been spilled on a rain-soaked patch of grass behind a row of mustard-colored condominiums by a man who had pursued him against the advice of 911 dispatchers. That man carried a 9-millimeter handgun. The boy carried a bag of candy.
Blow was writing seven weeks after Trayvon’s death. He had no excuse for missing the actual story. Worse, since he is a writer for the Times, his reporting has helped set the media tone worldwide
The media’s willful ignorance was on display again this past week. In reporting this news of George Zimmerman’s return to jail, more than a few media outlets showed the dangerously deceptive image of Trayvon as 11-year-old cherub. They did so in the assumption that the narrative was still theirs to control. It is not. The blogs, which have been doing the real detective work on this case, have long since taken control away from them.
The sites I have found must useful are the Daily Caller and conservativetreehouse.com. What follows is largely culled from those sites and their independent contributors. By probing Trayon’s background and parsing his social media chatter, they have put together a picture of a disturbed young man that begins to makes sense of the events that unfolded on that fateful rainy night of February 26.
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So exactly what is a real green job?
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The 5 Worst Marketing Ideas Ever Put Into Action
These stunning photos capture the feeling of silence.
Meet Magnus Walker, a rebel who turned his obsession with customizing Porsches into a career.
Jack Shafer on the Great Newspaper Liquidation.
Teachers of the year trick eighth-graders into eating moose poop.
Fifty Shades of Grey has triggered a boom in bondage gear.
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Just more cronyism and obama being the usual shady ass!
The Obama Administration has given a former director at the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) nearly half a billion dollars to offer “struggling” Illinois homeowners mortgage assistance, a Judicial Watch investigation has found.
It means the ACORN official (Joe McGavin) will go from operating a corrupt leftist community group that’s banned by Congress from receiving federal funding to controlling over $445 million in U.S. taxpayer funds. The money is part of a $7.6 billion Treasury Department program to help the “unemployed or substantially underemployed” make their mortgage payments.
In this case, JW found that a subcomponent of the state-run Illinois Housing Development Authority, known as the Illinois Hardest Hit Program, has just received a generous $445,603,557 Treasury infusion. The Obama Administration established Hardest Hit in 2010 to provide targeted aid to families in states hit hardest by the economic and housing market downturn, according to its website.
In early 2011 McGavin was appointed as director of Hardest Hit. Before that he was director of counseling for ACORN Housing in Chicago and operations manager for a Chicago ACORN offshoot called Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). His strong ties to ACORN make him a suspect candidate to handle such a huge amount of taxpayer dollars.
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So, would it not be easier to…just run?
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So the attorney general sees nothing wrong at all in allowing this? Holder needs to go, quick! Worst freaking attorney general EVER!!!
Attorney General Eric Holder admitted on Thursday that President Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod and the White House are helping the Department of Justice craft its messaging about Operation Fast and Furious.
“We [Holder, Axelrod and the White House] have certainly talked about ways in which we could deal with the interaction between the Justice Department and Congress — about ways in which we would,” Holder said in questioning before the House Judiciary Committee.
Virginia Republican Rep. Randy Forbes pressed Holder further by asking him if Axelrod, Obama’s re-election campaign and the White House were involved in crafting the DOJ’s policy for dealing with press. He said they were. “In terms of trying to get any message out that was consistent with facts and make sure it was done in an appropriate way, I’ve had conversations like that with people in the White House.”
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Internal emails show that BrightSource Energy, which received the largest federal loan for a solar energy project under President Obama’s stimulus package, leveraged its considerable political connections with top Democratic policymakers to secure its $1.6 billion in taxpayer backing.
BrightSource energy faced a “do-or-die moment,” according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, as the Energy Department weighed a federal loan for its massive Ivanpah solar farm in the California Mojave Desert.
To spur the administration to approve the loan, BrightSource beefed up its lobbying presence, most notably by hiring Bernie Toon, former chief of staff for then-Senator Joe Biden, to lobby on its behalf. Toon was paid $40,000 for his efforts, according to disclosure forms.
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