Tuesday, January 21, 2014

1/20/2014::Another crazy day for news,,,leftovers

Bill Maher and Glenn Greenwald clash over ‘totally batsh*t’ Edward Snowden
I don't know what to think of this whole Snowden affair. I have been trying to follow it but I keep coming back to the issue that what he did, and how he did it was wrong; regardless of the intent and the "positive" information produced. I also can't seem to wrap my head around this "incident" being a solo endeavor, I don't buy his story and believe there is more impetus behind his actions. Then there's that whole alien thing.
“That’s crazy,” Maher told Greenwald. “They were about stopping terrorism. They may have gone too far. But everybody in the government isn’t out to get you.”

After reading Snowden’s allegation that the government can “go back in time” to chart a person’s online history, Maher asked Greenwald, “This is nuts, right?”

“No, Bill, what’s nuts is the fact that you think that’s nuts,” said Greenwald, who published several articles based on knowledge seized by Snowden. “A lot of the stories we reported had nothing to do with terrorism. They’re spying on economic summits in Latin America, oil companies in Brazil, democratically-elected leaders of our closest allies who have nothing to do with terrorism.”
Report Says Administration Wasn’t Lying About Benghazi
I have my own hypothesis concerning Benghazi that goes something like this, who had/has the most to gain from this debacle and its aftermath?
Other preposterous claims about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, are also debunked in the Senate report. Most spurious is the claim that the administration failed to launch a rescue attempt that might have saved lives.

“The committee has reviewed the allegations that U.S. personnel ... prevented the mounting of any military relief effort during the attacks, but the committee has not found any of these allegations to be substantiated,” the report states.

Armchair warriors have argued that an aerial assault might have driven off the attackers, but Pentagon officials told the committee there were simply no U.S. fighter jets in position to reach Benghazi in time. All available military and CIA assets in Benghazi were mobilized, and they likely prevented additional deaths.
Water-relief tankers filled from Charleston water system
West Virginia American Water pulled its bulk water tankers out of service in Kanawha County Thursday evening, after complaints that the water being distributed to residents had the same odor as the chemical-tainted water from last week's Freedom Industries spill into the Elk R

Kanawha County Manager Jennifer Sayre said complaints began coming in late Thursday afternoon about the now-familiar licorice odor in water given out at the Crossings Mall in Elkview and at Riverside High School.

"We were getting conflicting information as to where [those tankers] were filled," Sayre said Thursday evening. "We wanted to clear that up."
Former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull Sent Hundreds Of Bigoted Emails Throughout Tenure
A former Montana judge who was investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his federal email account, according to the findings of a judicial review panel released Friday.

Former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sent emails to personal and professional contacts that showed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religious faiths, liberal political leaders, and some emails contained inappropriate jokes about sexual orientation, the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found.

Many of the emails also related to pending issues that could have come before Cebull's court, such as immigration, gun control, civil rights, health care and environmental issues, the council found in its March 15, 2013, order.

The investigation looked at four years of Cebull's personal correspondence sent from his official email account. Investigators also reviewed his past cases and interviewed witnesses.
Author Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban Speaks Out
Williamson is especially frustrated that the judge said the ban violates the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.

State Representative Sally Kern agrees, "Homosexuality is not a civil right. It's a human wrong."

Kern is one of the loudest critics of gay rights.

"Homosexuals are saying this is who we are. This is how we're born. You tell a lie long enough, people start to believe it," Kern said.

Williamson said, "I think what we did was the right thing back then and it's the right thing right now."

He said it has been a long road to get here and he believes it is nowhere close to being over.
House Republicans Blatantly Lie To America By Claiming They’ve Passed Dozens of Jobs Bills
The thing is, there are no jobs bills waiting for approval by the Senate. The new tactic by House Republicans is to call every single bill that they pass a ‘jobs bill.’ An anti-abortion bill? Yep, jobs bill. Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that will put billions of dollars in the pockets of the Koch brothers? Yep, jobs bill. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has actually put together a list of bills that have passed the House that he feels are ‘jobs bills.’ There is just one little problem. They aren’t going to create any new jobs!

In Boehner’s mind, repealing Obamacare, slashing regulations, gutting social programs and eliminating federal agencies is somehow going to create more jobs. One bill that Stutzman pointed to in his address, the SKILLS Act, is something the Boehner and Republicans have hyped up as important to job creation. However, the likelihood is that it would actually create a net negative in jobs. While the GOP can tout it as important to helping people train for new jobs, what it really does is eliminates many existing federal programs, putting government employees out of work.
Oklahoma pastor arrested in Philippines on child molestation charges
An Oklahoma pastor working overseas has been arrested, accused of abusing children.

Officials in the Philippines say Pastor Tom Randall of World Harvest Ministries was taken into custody Monday after authorities raided his nursing home and orphanage in Bulacan.

Randall is accused of molesting as many as 30 children under his care.

He is also accused of sending orphaned girls to friends for sex.

However, his friends in Oklahoma don’t believe the allegations.

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