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GOP Memo Coaches Members To Show Empathy Toward Unemployed
GOP Memo Coaches Members To Show Empathy Toward Unemployed
CAITLIN MACNEAL – JANUARY 7, 2014, 5:22 PM EST7646
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A memo from House leadership to the Republican caucus coaches members on how to speak about unemployment in a compassionate manner, according to the Washington Post.
The memo tells representatives that unemployment is a "personal crisis" and asks them to give "proper consideration" to an extension of longterm unemployment benefits.
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"Republican leaders can offer advice on how to sound empathetic when discussing unemployment but that won't change the fact that today we saw the majority of Republicans in the Senate vote against extending vital unemployment insurance benefits," DNS Deputy Press Secretary Rebecca Chalif wrote in an email to reporters.
"No amount of message guidance is going to change the reality that their policies are bad for the unemployed, they are bad for the middle class, and they are out of touch with the vast majority of Americans."
MORE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republican-memo-empathy-toward-unemployed
“For every American out of work, it’s a personal crisis for them and their family. That’s why House Republicans remain focused on creating obs and growing the economy.”
A second familiar theme: Go negative on Washington, D.C., while subtly suggesting that unemployment is a kind of handout. In words of the talking point:
“Washington has lost its priorities if it’s more focused on making unemployment easier to tolerate than it is getting people back to work and restoring independence all together.”
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/01/07/leaked-gop-memo-spinning-unemployment-benefits/
Obama: 'We've Got The Mom Of 2 Of Our Troops Wearing A Coat INSIDE Of Her Home-We've Got A Problem'
Katherine went on to say, I've applied to everything for which I'm possibly qualified, to no avail. I've worked hard all my life, paid taxes, voted, engaged in political discussion and made the ultimate sacrifice: My two sons serve in the U.S. military. Job loss is devastating, and if I could fix it myself, I would. I challenge any lawmaker to live without an income. (Laughter.) That's what Katherine said. It's hard. (Applause.)
So when we've got the mom of two of our troops who is working hard out there but is having to wear a coat inside the house, we've got a problem, and it's one that can be fixed.
And Katherine's not alone. Develyn Smith (sp), who's watching today from her home in California wrote me about her hunt for a new job. Since she was laid off 13 months ago, she's sent out hundreds of resumes, she's volunteered, she's done seasonal work, she doesn't want to just be sitting around the house. She's been taking online courses to learn new skills. Without unemployment insurance, though, she won't be able to pay for her car or her cell phone, which makes the job hunt that much harder.
And Develyn (sp) wrote to me and said, "I've wanted nothing more than to find a new full-time job, and I've dedicated every day to that mission. I'm asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended unemployment benefits to make ends meet."
FULL TRANSCRIPT: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-jan-7-remarks-on-unemployment/2014/01/07/79c65704-77bc-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html
Click here to watch the full video on C-SPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/317045-1
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-speaks-emergency-unemployment-insurance
The Racial Injustice Of The Drug War
More about this here:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/01/06/how-the-drug-war-targets-blacks/
Jeopardy Contestants Stumped by Megyn Kelly’s Existence
Poor Megyn Kelly. She was so excited https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/420367939078868992 she heard she was going to be a clue on Jeopardy, but then the episode aired and none of the contestants even came close to guessing who she was. "Who is Nancy Grace," ventured one contestant, when faced with the clue: "'File' this blonde anchor and lawyer under Fox News where she hosts a show weekdays from 9 to 10 p.m." Nobody else even tried it. Kelly was cool about it, but we all know it was a liberal conspiracy.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/01/jeopardy-contestants-stumped-by-megyn-kelly-clue.html
Liz Cheney-Mostly-'She Miscalculated The ° Her Father's Popularity Was Transferable To Her Own Race'
Cheney's Miscalculation
The New York Times notes that while Liz Cheney cited "serious health issues" in her family as the reason for dropping her Senate race, her problems were much larger.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/politics/liz-cheney-to-quit-wyoming-senate-race.html?ref=politics&_r=1&
Amen Brother - Vietnam Vet. Goes After Duck Dynasty Products, VA Canteen Complies
Duck Dynasty products under fire at VA medical center
AMEN Brother, AMEN!!!
Not only the racism, homophobic bigotry and seemingly pedophilic comments but total intolerance, in the name of their lord, but the Robertson family are in that great upper tier in income, with the grifting, A&E executives and investors as well, who have reaped profit from these current wars from huge tax cuts to possible investing in the defense industries, they also selling their wares at Military and VA facilities, and haven't paid a dime for nor in fully funding the VA and all it's charged to do in the peoples served responsibility!!
7 January 2013 - A Vietnam veteran has taken aim at Duck Dynasty products on sale at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center store in Albuquerque, and it looks like all the items in his cross hairs will be removed from the canteen’s shelves.
Robert Anderson is one of many people upset over a magazine interview in which Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson made comments they found racist and homophobic. In the January issue of GQ, the 67-year-old TV patriarch calls homosexuality a sin, comparing it with bestiality. Robertson, who is white, also claims that African-Americans he knew during the Jim Crow era in the South “were happy.”
On Dec. 27, Anderson – who served in the Air Force in Vietnam in the 1960s – wrote to the canteen that he was “greatly offend(ed) that the Veterans Administration Patriot Store would sell items promoting an entertainment group that clearly stands for racism and bigotry.
“The reactionary views incorporated into the Duck Dynasty group are contrary to the policies and mission of the VA medical system to not discriminate among veterans based on race or gender,” he continued. “Please remove these ugly divisive items immediately.”
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/07/1267775/-Brother-Vietnam-Vet-Goes-After-Duck-Dynasty-Products-VA-Canteen-Complies#http://woundedtimes.blogspot.com/2014/01/vietnam-veteran-gets-va-to-pull-duck.html
http://www.abqjournal.com/332212/news/duck-dynasty-products-under-fire-at-va-medical-center.html
This is two guys -- TWO FREAKING GUYS!--Two Unaccountable Guys, All The Power - By Charles P. Pierce
JAN 6, 2014
Two Unaccountable Guys, All The Power
By Charles P. Pierce at 12:15pm
Photo Illustration by DonkeyHotey via Accompaniment To This Post)
Some days, you read something and you think to yourself, you know, there's the Pacific Ocean right over there, I could start walking and keep going because what in the name of god is the point any more?
This is two guys -- TWO FREAKING GUYS! -- and they have more power within the American political system than a million earnest volunteers knocking on doors. They have more influence than millions of people writing letters to the editors, protesting outside school boards, or organizing online. This is two guys -- TWO FREAKING GUYS! -- whose politics were formed on what was still considered the Republican fringe in the 1950s and 1960s, and they have more power within the American political system than what's left of the entire infrastructure of organized labor.
Two freaking guys.
Amazing.
Two freaking unaccountable guys.
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WAY MORE HERE: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/koch-brothers-political-network-010614
Pope Francis: Pedophile Priests Are “Monsters”
Pope Francis: Pedophile Priests Are “Monsters”
Pope Francis wasted no time kicking off the New Year by labeling priestly pedophiles as “little monsters” according to a just released report of a meeting held in November.
Sex abuse scandals have plagued the Catholic Church for decades (centuries?) and the lack of action on the part of church officials has been a source of anger across the world. Rather than immediately handing known pedophiles over to the police, the “little monsters” were simply shuffled off to a new city or even country. There, they would continue to abuse children. It has been suggested that one of the reasons the Catholic Church has so many degenerates in it is because it shields, even enables, predators.
Because of this, the reputation of the Church has been seriously damaged over the years and the Pope has taken great strides to repair it. Pope Francis has already shaken the comfortable world of the religious right by openly condemning the pursuit of wealth and the harassment of homosexuals. He’s also taken on financial corruption. If he is serious about fixing the Church’s sexual abuse problem and not just fixing its public relations problem, Pope Francis may go down in history as the man who restored the Church’s moral clarity.
more: (incl some ?s re the term "little monsters"
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/05/pope-francis-pedophile-priests-monsters/
hmmmm? Mission creep -The FBI used to advertise its primary mission as "law enforcement." No longer
The FBI's creeping advance into the world of counterterrorism is nothing new. But quietly and without notice, the agency has finally decided to make it official in one of its organizational fact sheets. Instead of declaring "law enforcement" as its "primary function," as it has for years, the FBI fact sheet now lists "national security" as its chief mission. The changes largely reflect the FBI reforms put in place after September 11, 2001, which some have criticized for de-prioritizing law enforcement activities. Regardless, with the 9/11 attacks more than a decade in the past, the timing of the edits is baffling some FBI-watchers. - See more at: http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/05/fbi_drops_law_enforcement_as_primary_mission#sthash.wXyNwc7W.G9GEPvZf.dpufhttp://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/05/fbi_drops_law_enforcement_as_primary_mission#sthash.wXyNwc7W.G9GEPvZf.dpbs
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2014/01/mission-creep.html
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