Wednesday Afternoon Thread: Humpday Hilarity – Drive Thru Invisible Driver Prank

Hilariousssss!! I watched some of the other videos too and they were funny as hell lol.

Chris Christie Isn’t Your Best Friend
By Bob Cesca · January 07,2013

…The truth is, however, he isn’t your friend, nor is he the Republican messiah. To the latter point, I’m beginning to doubt that he’ll have any chance whatsoever of becoming the Republican nominee for president in 2016, with or without crossover support from liberal Democrats.

Yes, Christie is a moderate on marriage equality. He supports civil unions but not full marriage rights. In a hardlined Republican crowd, that’s rare. He’s also acknowledged the man-made causes of the climate crisis. Good for him. But that’s about it. On the other side of the fence, he happens to be staunchly anti-choice on reproductive rights. He’s historically opposed to gun control laws, including one that would’ve restricted gun purchases to one-per-month. Evidently Christie thinks Americans should be able to purchase multiple guns every month. He’s also certifiably insane when it comes to economic and fiscal policy, vetoing tax hikes on millionaires while cutting infrastructure and education spending. He’s never met a supply-side proposal he didn’t like, except when it comes to transporting his ass to soccer games. Then it’s spend, spend, spend.

In terms of his public style, the same personality that gives us honest press conferences like last week, as well as his unapologetic kudos for the president back in October, also gives us snippy goombah reactions to the press and the public at large, behavior that makes George W. Bush’s more petulant outbursts seem statesmanlike (links via Charles Pierce).

MORE: http://thedailybanter.com/2013/01/chris-christie-isnt-your-best-friend/

miranda – - – -WHA’ HE SAID: – –

– - –Biden Says Obama Considering Executive Orders on Gun Violence

Vice President Joe Biden said the White House is considering possible executive orders to curb gun violence, saying President Barack Obama is “determined to take action.”

Representatives from the National Rifle Association, which opposes new restrictions on firearms, and retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are among those who’ll meet with Biden and other administration officials tomorrow.
THERE IS MORE! – - – –

U WANT ACTION? – - -HE’S PREPARIN’ 2 GIVE some ACTION!! – - -

[Gotta "bounce" --care-takin'. - --MISSIN' U/CARRYIN' U --IN MY ♥. BACK as soon as. GLH♥]

‘Deception’ vs. ‘Scandal’ on Race

Unlike Rhimes’ hit, NBC’s new series seems to tiptoe around what it means to have a black leading lady.
By: Helena Andrews|Posted: January 8, 2013 at 12:32 AM

The comparisons were inevitable and obvious. NBC’s newest murder mystery, Deception, starring Meagan Good, looks a lot like ABC’s Revenge, a show that has chronicled the lifestyles of the rich and homicidal since last season.
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But Deception has something in common with another ABC hit — something that isn’t getting much attention. I’m talking, of course, about Scandal, the Kerry Washington-led ensemble soap in which another strong (if flawed) black leading lady has made it her job to solve problems while being mired in her own.

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In Deception, Good plays Joanna Locasto, a 30-something detective who grew up in the home of the Bowers as the daughter of their housekeeper. As children, Joanna and the Bowers’ druggie daughter (every rich family has one), Vivian, were besties. Decades later, Vivian turns up dead under shady circumstances, and Joanna is called upon to go undercover, living once again in the Bowers’ home while trying to uncover their carefully guarded secrets.

Both Joanna and Olivia can be viewed as outsiders of a sort. Although Olivia is the quintessential Washington insider in terms of her career trajectory, her personal life is another matter. She’s the perennial other woman when it comes to her relationship with President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant. Joanna’s angle as an enduring “houseguest” in the Bowers’ compound also emphasizes her role as an outside, an other. Like Olivia, Joanna isn’t an official member of the family, regardless of how fond they may be of her.

http://www.theroot.com/views/deception-vs-scandal-race?page=0,1

AIG Directors sending PBO a fruit basket right now with a note that reads “We aint in that shit with Greenberg!”

AIG Won’t Join Greenberg Lawsuit

American International Group Inc.’s directors decided Wednesday not to participate in a lawsuit that accuses the U.S. government of taking advantage of the company in its rescue from the financial crisis, according to two people briefed on the decision.

more here
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323442804578231660629820142.html

LOLGOP ‏@LOLGOP
Highlight of the State of the Union? President turns around, says, “What’s that in your ear, Mr. Speaker?” & pulls out the trilion $ coin.

Anyone else have fundamental problems with this sentence?
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And in 2003, leaders from EMILY’s List, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), AFL-CIO, and Sierra Club formed America Coming Together, the most sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation in the history of Democratic politics, to help elect presidential candidate John Kerry.
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Ok, stop laughing…no really…stop laughing now.

I read that here and when my eyes roll back around, maybe I’ll finish reading it. LOL

Revealed: The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics
A month after President Obama won reelection, America’s most powerful liberal groups met to plan their next moves. Here’s what they talked about.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/democracy-initiative-campaign-finance-filibuster-sierra-club-greenpeace-naacp

These videos are funny as ish.

I haven’t seen the Frontline documentary on Michelle Rhee yet, but one of the Twitter Fam, Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer), tweeted this blog post by Diane Ravitch who critics the doc and Rhee. I remember the poster ZachBoston speaking highly of Ms. Ravitch at the old blog….

My Commentary on the PBS Rhee Special

I was invited by Frontline to offer reactions to the documentary about Michelle Rhee. I was disappointed that the documentary did not mention that Rhee is now working on behalf of a far-right agenda of privatization; that Washington Teachers Union President George Parker now works for StudentsFirst; that Rhee’s “miraculous gains” as a teacher in Baltimore have been discredited. But I had space limitations. So this was my commentary:

I watched John Merrow’s documentary on “The Education of Michelle Rhee” with high anticipation. I wanted to see what she had learned from her experience, and what lessons there might be for the nation.

The documentary emphasizes her steely determination to do whatever she thought necessary to turn around the Washington, D.C. school system. She fired principals; she fired teachers; she closed schools. She told every principal that he or she must set a target for raising test scores. If they met it, their schools would win thousands of dollars; if they didn’t, they risked termination. She tied teachers’ evaluation to student test scores.

MORE:
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/08/my-commentary-on-the-pbs-rhee-special/

Did the Inauguration Committee vet this dude?

Inaugural Benediction To Be Delivered By Pastor Who Gave Vehemently Anti-Gay Sermon

By Josh Israel on Jan 9, 2013 at 1:30 pm

The Presidential Inauguration Committee announced Tuesday that the President Obama has selected Pastor Louie Giglio of the Georgia-based Passion City Church to deliver the benediction for his second inauguration. In a mid-1990s sermon identified as Giglio’s, available online on a Christian training website, he preached rabidly anti-LGBT views. The 54-minute sermon, entitled “In Search of a Standard – Christian Response to Homosexuality,” advocates for dangerous “ex-gay” therapy for gay and lesbian people, references a biblical passage often interpreted to require gay people be executed, and impels Christians to “firmly respond to the aggressive agenda” and prevent the “homosexual lifestyle” from becoming accepted in society. Below are some of the most disturbing views in the sermon.

Christians must fight against LGBT-equality:

(2:40) We must not just sit quietly by and stick our heads in the sand and let whatever happens happen in our country. We’ve got to respond to the world that we live in. That is the mandate that comes to us as people of God. And this issue is coming more and more to the forefront every day.

(31:45) We must lovingly but firmly respond to the aggressive agenda of not all, but of many in the homosexual community. … Underneath this issue is a very powerful and aggressive moment. That movement is not a benevolent movement, it is a movement to seize by any means necessary the feeling and the mood of the day, to the point where the homosexual lifestyle becomes accepted as a norm in our society and is given full standing as any other lifestyle, as it relates to family.

MORE: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/01/09/1422021/inaugural-benediction-to-be-delivered-by-anti-gay-pastor/

miranda — – -DEY KNEW – BETTA!! –HAH!- – -***rolls head on neck*** LOL – -

– - -AIG Won’t Join Shareholder Lawsuit Suing Government Over ‘Onerous’ Bailout – -

– — -American International Group, the insurance giant that received a $182 billion federal bailout to protect it from collapse in 2008, will not join a shareholder lawsuit against the federal government over the bailout’s terms, the Wall Street Journal reported. AIG had contemplated joining the lawsuit at the request of its former chairman, Maurice Greenberg, who filed the suit in 2011. AIG paid back the loans in 2012, and it has been running a series of television advertisements thanking taxpayers for saving the company. –

– - – -Annnnd – - –U R WELCOME! – - -HAH! – –

why does the GOP not like Jack Lew?

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How Close Were President Obama and Speaker Boehner to a Grand Bargain?

By Matthew Yglesias

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Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at 3:47 PM ET

In fact, when Boehner called back on that Thursday afternoon, the 14th, in hopes of restarting the negotiations, it wasn’t Obama but rather one of his chief aides who Boehner had decided was the problem. For weeks leading up to the breakdown in talks, Boehner and his top lieutenants—Barry Jackson, his chief of staff, and Brett Loper, his policy aide—had been talking principally to Jack Lew and Rob Nabors at the White House. But they had become exasperated with Lew, who, in their view, talked a lot but offered few concessions. Lew, whose detailed knowledge of the budget outpaced anyone else’s in the room, always seemed to have a better idea than whatever Boehner was proposing, and these ideas seemed to Boehner like more complicated ways of describing positions they had already rejected. The problem with Lew, Boehner bluntly told the president when he called, is that he just didn’t know how to get to “yes.”

Boehner thought he had a better shot with Bill Daley, the president’s chief of staff, and Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary. Daley had made a point of reaching out to Boehner since joining the administration, and he was known to be a pragmatist and a dealmaker. Geithner, clearly rattled by the possibility that Treasury might default on its debt, had been issuing almost daily warnings to Congressional leaders about the mounting fear in the markets. Send me Daley and Geithner, Boehner told the president, and let’s see what we can do

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/03/28/how_close_were_obama_and_boehner_to_a_grand_bargain_.html

miranda – — – - – -Uhhh –’cause -I teach about this – –:>) – -Annnd it’s scurry -

– -Soon, The Second Most Common STD May Not Be Able To Be Treated With Antibiotics – — -

—-There’s only one effective oral antibiotic treatment currently used to treat gonorrhea in North America — but that number might soon drop to zero, since researchers have identified the first cases of gonorrhea immune to the antibiotic.

– — -Antibiotic resistance is becoming more common, but for pharmaceutical companies the “superbug” bacteria requiring treatment are less appealing targets for drug development than conditions that require long-term medication, such as statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs), anti-depressants, beta-blockers or anti-rheumatics, Taylor says.

— -Some bacteria R MUTATIN’ INTO ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANCE annnd the PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY doesn’t CARE! – - -Soo we betta! – - -