Cliff Stearns loses, won't be able to witch-hunt
Planned Parenthood anymore

post from Daily Kos on 14 August 2012 10:48:51 PM. © Daily Kos

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Loser)This is some fantastic news.

Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns (FL-03) just lost to Ted Yoho in a primary Stearns apparently didn't feel he needed to bother trying to, you know, win.

You remember Stearns, don't you? He's the House Republican who believes in taxpayer-funded contraception for horses but not women.

He's also the rotten son of a bitch who launched an "investigation" into Planned Parenthood, "requesting reams of financial information and details on how the women's health organization keeps federal funds separate from abortion services," because Republicans hate women's health care sooooo much that they convinced themselves Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of women's health care, must be up to no good. Stearns had no actual evidence of wrongdoing, and thus far, he hasn't found any. Because there is nothing to find.

It was that bogus investigation that Susan G. Komen for the Cure cited to justify terminating funding of Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screening program. Because Planned Parenthood was under "investigation," according to the anti-choicers at Komen, it no longer deserved funding. That didn't work out well for Komen.

While Stearns has been busy waging his holy war against Planned Parenthood, instead of representing his constituents, he managed to let "large animal veterinarian" Ted Yoho sneak up and kick him out of a job. And come January, Mr. "Job Creation Solutions" will be looking for a new job himself.

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The Cost of Erasing Dissent (#Chalkupy Austin)

post from Firedoglake on 14 August 2012 10:25:50 PM. © Firedoglake

On Thursday, August 9, I took my two children, ages 4 and 7, to an Occupy Austin event called ?Chalkupy the World.? Many other cities around the country, and even abroad, participated in this event. I?ve been to a few Occupy events, support the methods[...]

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CT Nuke Shuts Down Because Water Is Too Hot To
Cool It

post from Crooks and Liars on 14 August 2012 10:00:58 PM. © Crooks and Liars

I don't think anything I have much to add that wouldn't be gilding this particular lily:

A reactor at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., has shut down because of something that its 1960s designers never anticipated: the water in Long Island Sound was too warm to cool it.
Under the reactor?s safety rules, the cooling water can be no higher than 75 degrees. On Sunday afternoon, the water?s temperature soared to 76.7 degrees, prompting the operator, Dominion Power, to order the shutdown of the 880-megawatt reactor.
?Temperatures this summer are the warmest we?ve had since operations began here at Millstone,?? said a spokesman for Dominion, Ken Holt. The plant?s first reactor, now retired, began operation in 1970.
The plant?s third reactor was still running on Monday, but engineers were watching temperature trends carefully out of concern that it, too, might have to shut down.
[...] The water from the sound is piped into the plant to absorb heat from pumps and other pieces of equipment. As the sound?s temperature inched upward this summer, Dominion Power received permission from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to measure it at three locations instead of one and to calculate the average in the hope that it would be lower. That did not help on Sunday.
And higher water temperatures could lie ahead. The sound?s temperature usually does not peak until late August.
Eventually, engineers could change the Millford reactor?s intake pipe so it draws water from further below the surface, where temperatures are lower, Mr. Holt said. They could also sharpen their pencils and try to determine whether the plant can operate safely with cooling water above 75 degrees, but neither is a short-term project.
Cloud cover and the mixing of some cooler rainfall might also bring down temperatures, Mr. Holt suggested.

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Operation Attack Biden and Change the Subject
From Ryan’s ‘Fairy-Tale Budget’

post from TaylorMarsh.com on 14 August 2012 10:00:40 PM. © TaylorMarsh.com

And I’m told that when I made that comment earlier today in Danville, Virginia, the Romney campaign put out a tweet. You know, tweets these days? Put out a tweet, went on the airwaves saying, ‘Biden, he’s outrageous in saying that,’ I think I said instead of ‘unshackled,’ ‘unchained.’ ‘Outrageous to say that.’ That’s what we had. I’m using their own words. I got a message for them. If you want to know what’s outrageous, it’s their policies and the effects of their policies on middle class America. That’s what’s outrageous. – Vice President Joe Biden

THE PERPETUALLY UNHINGED chief surrogate of Team Romney, former Gov. John Sununu, who’s playing the role of Mark Penn for the Romney campaign, has taken to going off with the media, one channel after another, his knack for saying things outrageous making him the clown of the talking head set. Sununu came in handy today after former Reagan budget director David Stockman eviscerated Paul Ryan’s budget in the New York Times.

Sununu and other leading Republicans had a synchronized head exploding episode after V.P. Biden used the word “unchained.”

?Well, there?s going to be folks across the country that will try and take that as some kind of code word that is going to suggest that the Republicans are trying to be racial in their programs,? Sununu said. ?That?s ridiculous. ? [TPM]

A contagion of tweets were followed by news organizations dutifully covering Team Romney’s attempt to make Biden look bad, because right now Team Romney’s only goal is to chip away at the character issue, hoping Pres. Obama’s will take a hit.

Considering the tactics Republicans have used to attack and insult Obama, today’s antics by Team Romney, led by John Sununu, who has obviously been charged with lead rhetorical gun turret position, was as obvious as it is tiresome.

So, we were moving right along discussing Ryan’s budget plan and his Medicare ideas, important stuff to debate, when Sununu, Andrea Saul and Reince Priebus suddenly yell “squirrel!”

Evidently, the reaction to Paul Ryan’s choice as vice president wasn’t what they’d hoped, so shifting the conversation away from his budget plan and Medicare voucher scheme discussion is job one.

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"Not Racist" Proudly White Individual of European
Descent Proves He's Not Racist

post from Jesus' General on 14 August 2012 10:00:07 PM. © Jesus' General

Readers may remember John Marion King III, the lilac-socks-clad, proudly white, but definitely not racist "American of European descent" who threatened to shoot me with his 9mm "bitch-ass Nigger Eater." He first came to our attention when he boldly protested in favor of the well-regulated militia incident that resulted in the killing of Trayvon Martin.

My last contact with him was an email in which I tried to patch things up by inviting him to make a plaster cast of his little sturmmann for display in my Grand Display Case of Patriot Units. Sadly, he never responded, and I have not had the opportunity to cherish his little sturmmann in my hand.

Today, I saw a tweet he posted to Twitter, and responded to it, hoping to get clarification about his threat to shoot me:

He responded, and although he ducked my question, he providing proof that he is not a white supremacist:

There you have it.

Previous posts featuring John King.

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McCain/Graham/Ayotte Tour to Stop Defense Cuts
Held at Defense Contractor Sites

post from Firedoglake on 14 August 2012 09:40:22 PM. © Firedoglake

Senator's McCain, Graham and Ayotte have been lobbying against the sequester defense budget cuts, but there's a question about their use of facilities of military defense contractors to make their pitches, especially when the contractor' PACs contribute[...]

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Christie names as keynoter for GOP convention

post from DemConWatch on 14 August 2012 09:17:00 PM. © DemConWatch

We had the news 3 weeks ago, and now it's official:

The Republican National Committee announced this morning that Gov. Chris Christie will deliver the keynote address at the convention two weeks from today.
After Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s speeches, the job is considered the most high-profile speaking role at the four-day event. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus made the announcement in a statement obtained first in the state by The Star-Ledger.
State Democrats immediately criticized the pick, calling the message Christie will likely give a fiction “and just one more insult from the governor to the people of this state”.

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Christie named as keynoter for GOP convention

post from DemConWatch on 14 August 2012 09:17:00 PM. © DemConWatch

We had the news 3 weeks ago, and now it's official:

The Republican National Committee announced this morning that Gov. Chris Christie will deliver the keynote address at the convention two weeks from today.
After Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s speeches, the job is considered the most high-profile speaking role at the four-day event. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus made the announcement in a statement obtained first in the state by The Star-Ledger.
State Democrats immediately criticized the pick, calling the message Christie will likely give a fiction “and just one more insult from the governor to the people of this state”.

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Aug. 14: The Fog of Polling - and Ryan's 'Bounce'
So Far

On another day, the polls conducted partly or wholly after the vice-presidential announcement would constitute some decent numbers for the Republicans - but so far, also, they suggest a below-average bounce.

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Bill-O Bullies Sister Simone Campbell For
Standing Up For the Poor

Bill-O Bullies Sister Simone Campbell For Standing Up For the Poor

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As Diane told us about here, the Nuns on a Bus tour kicked off in June and they already had Rep. Paul Ryan and his cruel budget on their agenda because of the harm it does to the poor. Now they've challenged presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to spend a day with them to learn about the plight of America's poor.

So naturally that meant their Network Executive Director, Sister Simone Campbell, was going to get attacked, talked over and bullied by Fox's Bill O'Reilly when she made an appearance on his show this Monday evening. O'Reilly was screaming about raising taxes on the rich doing damage to the economy, which it won't as the good sister rightfully pointed out, and he continually cut her off as she tried to explain why we need a living wage in America and why we should not be gutting off our social safety nets.

You're never going to get anywhere with O'Reilly arguing about this stuff because he's firmly rooted in the cult of I've got mine and the hell with the rest of you.