Month: August 2013
Majority Opposes Defunding Obamacare
57%
Of Americans disapprove of cutting off funding for Obamacare as many conservative Republicans in Congress propose, while just 36% say they would approve such a move, a new Kaiser poll finds.
Kasich Explains the Sin of Helping
It’s a sin not to help people who need help. But it’s also a sin to help people who need to learn how to help themselves.
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), in an interview on KTVN.
Pat Robertson’s Own Network Censors His Accusation That Gay Men Deliberately Spread HIV By Cutting People with Special Rings
TV preacher Pat Robertson, a towering figure in the anti-gay hate group movement, has said a lot of crazy things about gay people over the years — that God would smite Orlando because Disney allowed gays to host an event there and that gays and agreeing with his colleague, the late Jerry Falwell, that gays, the ACLU and others caused the 9/11 attacks. But his latest anti-gay smear represents a new low — a hateful accusation that makes no sense — so crazy that his own network censored it out after he said it live during the broadcast:
Blame the Gear
Getting spied on got the United Nations in a huff.
“Hey,” they said, “already, enough’s enough!”
“What can we say?”
Said the NSA.
“We had to do SOMETHING with all this cool spy stuff.”
