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To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 5:50:43 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575617

Lefty shitbirds tejek and bentway LOVE Obama's destruction of Libya.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 5:54:42 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575617

The ObamaCare mess is unresolved, and the Veterans Affairs scandal keeps getting worse

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 6:02:04 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1575617

Armed & Dangerous: The Terrorism of the LGBT Radicals

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 6:15:35 PM
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Obama Admits That He Wants to Go Off On Republican Climate Change Deniers ........................................................................................................ PoliticusUSA - Real Liberal Politics ^ \| June 8, 2014 \| Jason Easley During an interview with The New York Times, President Obama admitted that the Republican anti-science climate change deniers are frustrating and that he wants to go off on them. Here is the exchange between Thomas Friedman of the Times and the president: “Yeah, absolutely,” the president said with a laugh. “Look, it’s frustrating when the science is in front of us. … We can argue about how. But let’s not argue about what’s going on. The science is compelling. … The baseline fact of climate change is not something we can afford to deny. And if you profess leadership in this country at this moment in our history, then you’ve got to recognize this is going to be one of the most significant long-term challenges, if not the most significant long-term challenge, that this country faces and that the planet faces. The good news is that the public may get out ahead of some of their politicians” — as people start to see the cost of cleaning up for hurricanes like Sandy or the drought in California — and when “those start multiplying, then people start thinking, ‘You know what? We’re going to reward politicians who talk to us honestly and seriously about this problem.’ ” The president added: “The person who I consider to be the greatest president of all time, Abraham Lincoln, was pretty consistent in saying, ‘With public opinion there’s nothing I cannot do, and without public opinion there’s nothing I can get done,’ and so part of my job over these next two and a half years and beyond is trying to shift public opinion. And the way to shift public opinion is to really focus in on the fact that if we do nothing our kids are going to be worse off.” The president finds himself in a familiar position. Most presidents have needed to rely on the public when the members of Congress are behind the times on an issue. The problem is that Republicans don’t have to respond to public pressure. They seem only concerned with what their big money donors like the Koch brothers want. Time and again, the American people have demanded action on everything from expanded gun background checks to extending unemployment benefits and they have gotten nothing, because this Congress does not work for or answer to the American people. The fact that the one party in Congress has no interest in governing has to be frustrating to the president. There are vital long-term issues like climate change and immigration that are being ignored by a Republican Party that is only interesting in chasing the scandal of the day and raising more right-wing billionaire dollars. Republicans are living in their own reality that is defined by whatever their big money donors tell them it is. When the anti-science religious right wing of the party is added into the mix, the result is a group of people who have no interest in dealing with fundamental reality, much less the future of the planet. It was nice to hear that the president shares the same frustrations as the non-Koch owned and science embracing majority, and POTUS offered an attractive remedy to the nation’s current problem. Voters must start rewarding politicians who are living reality, and throwing out those who have been blinded by Koch dollars and anti-science pandering. Wow, speaking of living in your own reality, 1 posted on 6/8/2014, 5:48:53 PM by 2ndDivisionVet To: 2ndDivisionVet I have to wonder what color the sky is in Jason’s world. 2 posted on 6/8/2014, 5:51:07 PM by Bob [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 1 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: 2ndDivisionVet Seriously. I don’t give a sht what anyone at PoliticusUSA has to say. 3 posted on 6/8/2014, 5:52:19 PM* by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---) [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 1 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: 2ndDivisionVet Obama Admits That He Wants to Go Off On Republican Climate Change DeniersI'm QUITE sure that for one of the first times, he is NOT lying. 4 posted on 6/8/2014, 5:54:14 PM by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - To: 2ndDivisionVet Obummer: So was last winter warmer, or colder than normal. Just asking. 6 posted on 6/8/2014, 5:57:41 PM by Cringing Negativism Network To: 2ndDivisionVet Jos Bastardi on his Sat report this week said “If you have a child graduating high school this year he/she will never have seen any climate warming.” (17.9 years without it warming). 8 posted on 6/8/2014, 5:59:27 PM by bunster [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 1 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: 2ndDivisionVet "The science is compelling" ranks up there with "You can keep your doctor", "You can keep your health care plan", "Not a smidgen of corruption (in the IRS)", etc. etc.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 6:16:07 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1575617

"The science is compelling" ranks up there with "You can keep your doctor", "You can keep your health care plan", "Not a smidgen of corruption (in the IRS)", etc. etc.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 6:34:10 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575617

Nothing like the brilliance that flows from Candy “The Refrigerator” Crowley.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 6:36:01 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575617

Obama Says He Will Break The Law Again, “Whenever I have an opportunity”, Signs of a Sociopath?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (788598)	6/8/2014 6:53:39 PM
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Obama and Hillary must be so proud. Red Cross freezes Libya work after Swiss death The Local (Switzerland) ^ \| 05 Jun 2014 The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is temporarily freezing its operations in Libya to reevaluate the security situation after a Swiss staffer was killed by gunmen. "We are freezing movement (of personnel) for the time being to analyze the situation so we can adapt our operations," ICRC spokesman David-Pierre Marquet told AFP on Thursday. He said there were no plans to permanently halt the organization's operations in Libya. The announcement came a day after Michael Greub, a 42-year-old Swiss citizen heading the ICRC's office in Libya's third city Misrata, was killed by gunmen in Sirte, 200 kilometres further along the coast. Greub had been leaving a meeting with two colleagues when the attackers shot at their vehicle at "point-blank" range, ICRC spokesman Wolde Saugeron said on Wednesday. Greub's two colleagues emerged unscathed from the attack. "They were very lucky," Marquet said, noting that the security situation in the country was of deep concern. Greub's death came just a week after a local 23-year-old Red Cross employee was murdered in Benghazi, he pointed out. "If our aid workers' lives are in danger, we have to try to adapt our structure, our way of working" to protect them, he said. The ICRC counts some 30 expatriate staff members and around 150 local staff in Libya. The organization will surely reduce its footprint somewhat following its evaluation, Marquet said, adding that the aim was to complete the review quickly so operations could resume. He said the ICRC had been surprised by the attack, since "Sirte is rather calm — it's not like Benghazi — and we received no indication that an incident like this might occur." Greub and his colleagues were not travelling in a marked vehicle, so it was unclear if ICRC was the intended target or if the attack was random, Marquet said. "We're trying to understand why this happened," he said. The neutral, Switzerland-based ICRC specializes in providing aid in conflict zones and overseeing respect for the Geneva Conventions on warfare, such as the treatment of prisoners. In 2012, it put a temporary freeze on operations in Misrata and the eastern city of Benghazi after unidentified gunmen attacked its Misrata compound. There were no casualties in that attack.