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When Roger West first launched the progressive political blog "News From The Other Side" in May 2010, he could hardly have predicted the impact that his venture would have on the media and political debate. As the New Media emerged as a counterbalance to established media sources, Roger wrote his copious blogs about national politics, the tea party movement, mid-term elections, and the failings of the radical right to the vanguard of the New Media movement. Roger West's efforts as a leading blogger have tremendous reach. NFTOS has led the effort to bring accountability to mainstream media sources such as FOX NEWS, Breitbart's "Big Journalism. Roger's breadth of experience, engaging style, and cultivation of loyal readership - over 92 million visitors - give him unique insight into the past, present, and future of the New Media and political rhetoric that exists in our society today. What we are against: Radical Right Wing Agendas Incompetent Establishment Donald J. Trump Corporate Malfeasence We are for: Global and Econmoic Security Social and Economic Justice Media Accountability THE RESISTANCE

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

"Fox News Viewers Are So Stupid That They Have No Idea How Stupid They Are"




John Cleese on Fox News Viewer Stupidity




This is precisely why it is a total waste of time to argue with faux news trolls on the internet. They haven't the capacity to realize that they are net trolls.

Having read Kurt Vonnegut in college, I am reminded of a quote of his: "The big trouble with dumb Bastards, is that they are too dumb to realize that there is such a thing as being smart"

Readers, I cannot recommend these 60 seconds highly enough!




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Monday, September 29, 2014

"WHY DOESN'T THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE"?






Voting rights advocates in North Carolina caught a lucky break on Thursday, where it was revealed that the panel of three judges who would consider that state’s comprehensive voter suppression law included one Clinton appointee, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, and two Obama appointees, Judges James Wynn and Henry Floyd. Last month, a George W. Bush appointee to a federal trial bench in North Carolina allowed the law to go into effect during the 2014 election, the panel of three judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit are now considering whether to affirm or reverse that decision. They heard oral arguments in the case on Thursday.

Several provisions are at issue in this case that all make it more difficult for residents of North Carolina to cast a vote. One provision cuts a week of early voting days. Another restricts voter registration drives. A third implements a strict voter ID law, although that provision does not take effect until 2016, so it would be reasonable for the court to decide not to suspend it during the 2014 election.

One provision that received a great deal of attention from the judges during Thursday’s oral arguments in this case is a change to the state law that causes ballots to be tossed out if a voter shows up in the wrong precinct. For the last decade, voters who showed up at the wrong precinct would still have their votes counted in races that were not specific to that precinct, so long as they voted in the correct county. The new law prohibits these ballots from being counted at all. According to the Associated Press, that means thousands of ballots will be thrown out each election year.

Judge Wynn, the only member of the panel who lives in North Carolina, appeared baffled by this provision. Explaining that he lives very close to a precinct that is not his assigned polling place, he asked the state to justify why his vote should be thrown out if he did not travel to a precinct that is further away from his home. At one point, his questions grew quite pointed — “Why does the state of North Carolina not want people to vote?” Wynn asked. At another point, he described a hypothetical grandmother who has always voted at the same place. Why not “let her just vote in that precinct?” he wondered?

An attorney defending the North Carolina law spent a great deal of his time at the podium arguing that it would be too disruptive for a court to suspend parts of North Carolina’s election law this close to the November elections. As a legal matter, this is a strong argument. In a 2006 case called Purcell v. Gonzalez, the justices reinstated a voter ID law that had been halted by a lower court. They explained that “court orders affecting elections, especially conflicting orders, can themselves result in voter confusion and consequent incentive to remain away from the polls. As an election draws closer, that risk will increase.”

Yet the judges seemed skeptical of this argument as well, questioning what evidence the state could show that voters would actually be confused. When an attorney argued that restoring lost voting rights could be logistically challenging for the state, Judge Floyd asked whether “an administrative burden [can] trump a constitutional right?”

The argument that judges should heed Purcell‘s warning and be cautious about changing voting law close to an election also did not convince a much more conservative panel considering another voter suppression law in Wisconsin. Earlier this month, a panel of three Republican judges reinstated a voter ID in a single page order issued the same day that they heard oral arguments in the case. At the time, election law expert Rick Hasen criticized this order as a “very bad idea,” in part because of the reasons stated in Purcell. There are already yearly signs that Hasen was correct.

The Wisconsin case is already making its way to the Supreme Court, and the North Carolina case is likely to wind up there as well, especially if the Fourth Circuit rules against the state’s law. Should both cases come before the justices, that means that they will be confronted with one case where a court changed a state’s election law in a way that Democrats generally approve of, and another case where a court changed the state’s election law in a way that Republicans generally approve of. Both of these changes, moreover, would be made close to an election.

If the conservative Roberts Court really meant what it said in Purcell, then it is likely to allow the North Carolina law to go into effect while suspending the Wisconsin law. Should it allow both laws to take effect, however, that would raise serious concerns about whether the justices are willing to apply the same rule to every case, regardless of whether the rule benefits Democrats or Republicans.

Cross posted from thinkprogress




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Sunday, September 28, 2014

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REIGNS IN FERGUSON POLICE




A Department of Justice letter sent to the Police Chief Tom Jackson of Ferguson, Missouri on Friday instructed all officers to stop wearing “I Am Darren Wilson” bracelets. Another letter issued on Tuesday ordered members of the police department to wear readable name plates, after officers were seen wearing unidentifiable tags or none at all.

Protests have not stopped in Ferguson since officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was unarmed, in August. And in response to civil unrest, which gained steam again after Brown’s memorial was burned to the ground on Tuesday, and the use of the slogan “I Am Mike Brown,” officers were photographed wearing the bracelets supporting the officer who killed him.

The DOJ letter sent to Jackson explained that the bracelets contributed to an “us versus them” mentality and “upset and agitated” others.

In a separate letter, the DOJ also said that officers must stop violating name tag protocol by obscuring or altogether not wearing their name tags. The practice, DOJ said, “conveys a message to community members that, through anonymity, officers may seek to act with impunity.”

Ferguson police previously drew national attention for the militarization of officers, which made the town look like a war scene and resulted in the arrest and attempted censorship of journalists on the ground. And clashes between police and protestors haven’t stopped.

Although Jackson gave Brown’s parents a video apology and joined protesters in the streets this week, Darren Wilson still hasn’t been charged, raising questions about the justice system and politics in the town. Ferguson has a history of racial tension, and research shows that justice is hard to come by for victims of police brutality. For example, a Supreme Court ruling gives police legal deference to determine “reasonable” force. But protesters say civil unrest will continue until the officer is held accountable.


RELATED:

FERGUSON OFFICER SHOT





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Saturday, September 27, 2014

FELLATE SHOW

In typical Bill Maher fashion - last nights show not being any different, Maher tells it like it is.

Bill Maher may agree with liberals on many things, but one thing he is not tolerant of is - constantly-outraged liberals staying silent on Islamic atrocities.

Maher said it’s ridiculous for President Obama to claim ISIS isn’t Islamic, because looking at the actual beliefs of ISIS and many Muslims around the world shows that much of Islam “has too much in common with ISIS.”

Maher tore into liberal ideas of multiculturalism and non-judgment when it comes to whether certain belief systems are better. Maher said of course “liberal Western culture” is better than horrid theocracies where people’s rights are threatened every single day.

LIBERAL WESTERN CULTURE




Whether you like him or not - or agree with him or not - the bottom line is pretty clear, homo sapien priorities are screwed up.





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Friday, September 26, 2014

ERIC BOLLING GETS BLASTED BY JON STEWART

ERIC BOLLING SUFFERS FROM FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE....YET AGAIN


Jon Stewart verbally bitch slapped Fox News’ Eric Bolling on Thursday for his hypocritical complaint that President Barack Obama was disrespecting U.S. troops with his “latte salute.”
“Fuck you and all your false patriotism,” Stewart said. “When [George W.] Bush took us to war, any criticism was shouted down as treasonous. But a president you don’t like has the country poised on the same precipice [and] no transgression — no matter how immaterial and ridiculous — is too small to cite as evidence that this president isn’t as American as you are.”

The proof, Stewart argued, was that Bolling groused about Obama during the same episode in which he referred to a female combat pilot from the United Arab Emirates as “boobs on the ground.”




For the conservative flag-pin wearing fake patriots, just another day in the life of "Black President".

There is nothing more priceless than the draft dodging college drop out society that is Faux News - complaining about anything military. The answer to the question "Can people really be this stupid?" is always a yes when you are speaking about Faux News employees.

Eric Bolling, you are today's worst person of the world.





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Thursday, September 25, 2014

MARSHA BLACKBURN, NO ORDINARY IDIOT

TENN CONGRESSWOMAN MARSHA BLACKBURN, THE LIGHTS ARE ON BUT NO ONE IS HOME


Step aside Sarah Palin, move over Michelle Bachman, there is a not so new idiot in town - amongst the ranks of the Tin Foil Hat Society, that is seeking top billing of queen idiot of the Galactically Stupid!

Now enters Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn [(R),Tea Bagger] . Once you get passed the annoying chalk screeching southern drawl - once you get passed the minutia of this GOP talking head - once Blackburn is queried aggressively on military tactics, you find that while waving your hand in front of the window that is Marsha Blackburn - That Blackburn is a shill that perfectly personifies stupidity and a blind allegiance to the Koch whores.

Blackburn, in typical tea bagger fashion, when pressed hard on an issue, deflects and never gives you a straight answer.

BANFIELD VS BLACKBURN





It's hard to believe, that any American in today's world, would they actually go to the polls to cast a vote for someone who is so obviously uninformed and pre-programmed as this bullshit artist - but sadly it happens millions of times each election cycle.

It looks like we're truly screwed if this sort of thing can happen on such a regular basis.


MORE MARSHA BLACKBURN


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Blackburn is a by product of the Koch whores [David and Charles]. Blackburn's response to CNN's Banfield's pressing query is typical Blackburn, Southern aristocrat with equal parts of condescension and incredulity with the intent to - "when you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bullshit".

Marsha Blackburn has been emitting high quality stupid for some time. Blackburn is yet another elected congressperson who is totally incapable - inept of showing any leadership skill sets whatsoever - or having a cognizant thought process of her own.

Republicans are outraged that CNN and Banfield could attack their "Southern Belle" with such tough direct questions regarding such real matters as troops on the ground fighting their wars. To all the outraged tea baggers, CNN deeply regrets this sudden and unforeseen outbreak of journalism and assures the public that this shall never happen again. [Snark]

A tip for Ms. Blackburn, when you are clueless on such matters, that it is "better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt".

Marsha Blackburn, you are the worlds tool of the day. Congratulations!








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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Americans For Shared Prosperity Sinks To New Low

AS IF THIS WASN'T ENOUGH.....NOW WE HAVE CREEPY DATING AD


First it was creepy Republican Uncle Sam probing vagina's, now it's creepy American's for Shared Prosperity dating Profile ad.





TPM's Sahil Kapur asked if this is the weirdest, creepiest ad of the 2014 election cycle and my response is "Yes." I don't know who these Republicans think they're appealing to with this sexist, condescending piece of garbage, but it's flooding the airways on my local channels. I found it extremely insulting and that's about the nicest thing you can say about it.

Here's more from the TPM article:
A new outside ad aimed at boosting Republican candidates in the midterm elections is gaining attention — and raising eyebrows. 
The 60-second spot, "Dating Profile," was released by the group Americans for Shared Prosperity, which is run by Republican millionaire and California winery owner John Jordan, according to Politico. He wants to fight back against the Democrats' "war on women" rhetoric. 
The ad features a woman who says she no longer cares for Barack Obama after she "fell in love" with him in 2008 and stuck by him in 2012 when "our relationship was in trouble." She becomes angry, and says, "I know I'm stuck with Barack for two more years, but I'm not stuck with his friends." 
One of her gripes about Obama? "He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control. But he won't even let me keep my own doctor."

When conservatives are not "legitimately raping" women, they try to breed them, when they fail there, they patronize them. GOP, full of white pasty old men who live five centuries behind the times.

Not sure about you readers, but I can't wait to see how these idiots woo the black, Hispanic and gay vote.

Americans for Shared Prosperity, you are today's worst people in the world!







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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

"LIKE PUSHING A MILLION POUNDS OF IDIOTS UP A MOUNTAIN"

CLIMATE DENIER, TIN FOIL HAT SOCIETY MEMBER PAUL "LYING" RYAN"



Jon Stewart last night blasted three "Republican" congressmen on Monday for being climate change deniers sitting on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Kind of like an oxymoron this is - conservatives on science and intelligence committees.

Stewart showed footage of three Tin Foil Hat Society Members - Larry Buschon (R-IN), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Steve Stockman (R-TX) each thinking they could counter White House scientific advisor John Holdren’s evidence during a hearing last week, only to get shut down.

Holdren, Stewart said, had the Sisyphean task of “pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain,” including one exchange where Holdren told Buschon to “look at the scientific literature” regarding climate change.

In response, Buschon scoffed at reading findings from “climatologists whose career depends on the climate changing,” saying, “I could read that, but I don’t believe it.”

Instead of reading the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Stewart said, Buschon was relying on the opinions of YouTube commenter's like “Obummerlies1776″ for his opinions on climate change, and scoffing at people who study the phenomenon for a living.







To all the Tin Foil Hat Society Members - NEWSFLASH: In the future, our descendants will not be as mad at us about the National Debt nearly as much as Global Warming and Fukushima.

Science and Climate Change deniers, you are all today's asshat of the day! 





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Monday, September 22, 2014

ALASKAN REPORTER GOES OUT IN A "BLAZE" OF GLORY




Charlo Greene told her boss what many of us would to tell our boss, "fuck it, I quit"





YouTube latest sensation Charlo Greene, a reporter for CBS affiliate KTVA-TV in Anchorage, Alaska, quit her job live on air Sunday night after announcing that she owned a medical marijuana business.

According to the Alaska Dispatch News, Greene did a report on the Alaska Cannabis Club on the 10 p.m. news. At the end of the report, she revealed herself as the owner of the club and said she was quitting her job at the station to devote her time to legalizing marijuana in Alaska.

KTVA 11 apologized for the outburst on its Facebook page:

Dear Viewers,

We sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter during her live presentation on the air tonight. The employee has been terminated.

Bert Rudman
News Director - KTVA 11 News

After quitting, Greene posted an Indiegogo page to raise $5,000 to go toward campaigning for marijuana legislation. From the page:
I'm Charlo Greene, the president and CEO of the Alaska Cannabis Club — Alaska's only legal medical marijuana resource. I just quit my news reporting job on live TV to announce that I am redirecting all of my energy toward helping to end a failed drug policy that has ruined the lives of far too many Americans. 
Ballot Measure 2, the initiative to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Alaska, isn't just about marijuana in the Last Frontier, it's about keeping the ball rolling on NATIONAL legalization. Imagine, if after Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational marijuana and are offering the rest of the world a positive outlook on what ending marijuana prohibition can do, Alaskan voters fail to continue moving our nation in the direction toward freedom and fairness. There's no doubt that will impact every other state, national and international marijuana reform effort. Americans with common sense don't want that.

Help us to keep that from becoming a reality.

Pretty ballsy move considering she probably spent much time in education and money to be a journalist. Rest assure Ms. Greene will never ever be a reporter again, or maybe better yet, the magazine "High Times" may be in the need of a qualified reporter, either way, Ms. Greene deserves a atta girl for standing for her convictions, whether these convictions - to blaze or not - be right or wrong.





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Sunday, September 21, 2014

MICHAEL BROWN KILLING IS "HIGHLY ENTERTAINING" TO ST. LOUIS POLCE ACADAMY






The deadly police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson prompted nationwide outrage and weeks of protests. But police in the area apparently still have a lot to learn.

The St. Louis County And Municipal Police Academy, which encompasses Ferguson, is offering a “Continuing Education” course in October entitled “OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING — YOU CAN WIN WITH THE MEDIA.” The classis billed as “fast-paced class is jam-packed with the essential strategies and tactics, skills and techniques” and includes a “detailed case study of Ferguson.”

Learning about how to manipulate the media after a police officer shoots someone can be a blast, according to a flier produced by the academy promoting the course.” The training is also highly entertaining,” the flier says, “You will learn a lot, and you’ll have fun doing it!

The course is recommended for “All upper-echelon law enforcement professionals who ever expect to face media contact will benefit. This includes top-level decision-makers, command staff, supervisors, and subject-matter experts…”

Here is the full flier for the course, which is scheduled for October 24:







Just when you think this sorry assed - despicable police department has reached the lowest point possible... hey, look, a new low.

Ferguson Police Department, you are both today's asshat of the day- and worlds worst people of the day. Congratulations Richard Craniums!








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Saturday, September 20, 2014

POLYETHOXYLATED TALLOW AMINE MORE LIKELY TO KILL AMERICANS THAN ISIS

Says Bill Maher.

During Bill's "New Rules" segment, Maher attacked the war hawk conservative for hyping domestic threats from ISIS and “other brown people,” while ignoring other pressing matters at home.

Maher said:
"that he does feel bad about the journalists beheaded by the jihadist group, but cautioned: “When you choose to live among cutthroats, you might get your throat cut.”
“Do Americans living here actually think it’s going to be them next?” he asked. “Get a grip.”




Like him or not, Maher tells it like it is.






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Friday, September 19, 2014

JOHN BOEHNER THINKS..............




.......Unemployed people "just sit around - don't think they have to work".

Priceless, considering that Boehner's congress just came back from vacation, worked eight [8] days and now will have another eight weeks of vacation.

House Speaker John Boehner seemed to echo Mitt Romney’s infamous claim that 47 percent of Americans are “takers” who suck up government benefits during a speech at a conservative Washington D.C. think tank on Thursday. Addressing the American Enterprise Institute, Boehner suggested that President Barack Obama’s economy has lulled many unemployed people into a sense of dependence on government.
“This idea that has been born, maybe out of the economy over the last couple years, that you know, I really don’t have to work. I don’t really want to do this. I think I’d rather just sit around. This is a very sick idea for our country,” he said.
“If you wanted something you worked for it,” Boehner said, adding, “Trust me, I did it all.”
But the unemployed aren't jobless because they’re lazy or receive government benefits. Most face huge obstacles to finding good paying jobs in a slow economic recovery.

Currently, there are more than two job seekers for every job opening in the country and the severity of the recession has created a long-term unemployment problem that has made many job seekers almost unemployable. Research shows that being unemployed for nine months has the same impact on your odds of getting hired as losing four full years of experience from a résumé. As a result, many people who lost their jobs have gone back to school, retired early, or continue to look for work without success.

In fact, millions of unemployed people are having a harder time finding a job since Congressional Republicans allowed the long-term unemployment benefits program to lapse. Research — and real world experience — has found that the program’s job search requirements encourage people to spend more time job hunting and helps cover essentials like internet service for job applications or gas money for interviews.

Boehner’s remarks are similar to comments made by Rep. Paul Ryan in March. During an appearance on a conservative radio show, Ryan claimed:
“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”
This from a guy who holds the worst record from any congress for doing absolutely nothing - along with the lowest approval rating ever.........Priceless "Faux Tan Man", priceless!


Pot, meet kettle.




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Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Thursday, September 18, 2014

BUMPER BRAINS

JON STEWART OBLITERATING THE NFL, ANHEUSER BUSCH, SEAN HANNITY

They ‘don’t know what the fuck they’re doing’ say Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart takes to task - the NFL's inept business practices on how to deal with abusive employees.

Stewart argued that the NFL’s muddled handling thus far of the cases involving Carolina defensive end Greg Hardy, former Baltimore running back Ray Rice and Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson represented “the kind of firm decision making we've come to expect from people who don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing.”

He also mocked the Vikings for reversing course twice over on Peterson following his second suspension in connection to allegations of child abuse. The team said in a statement that the latest suspension was an effort to “get this right.”
“You need time to make sure you get this right?” Stewart scoffed. “A 220-pound running back left railroad tracks on a 4-year-old’s leg. This ain't Fermat’s last theorem.”
Not only had the league been forced to develop its own “special victims unit,” Stewart said, but Anheuser Busch — a key sponsor — had admonished the league for its response to criticism from the public.
“How crazy is this?” Stewart asked the audience. “A company that sells alcohol is the moral touchstone of the NFL. Maybe one of the only substances that is proven scientifically to increase the likelihood of domestic abuse — that company is saying to the NFL, ‘You guys got a real problem here.’”
Stewart pointed out that it wasn't that long ago when people around the league fretted that drafting Missouri defensive end Michael Sam would lead to distractions because he is gay.

BUMPER BRAINS




If spanking works so well, then why do we only use it on the smallest, most vulnerable members of our society?





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Roger West

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

YES SHE WENT THERE





Fox and Friend mouth piece Elizabeth Hasselbeck did what little with an IQ above negative one hundred would do.

A Tweet by Fox & Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Tuesday attempted to tie the ongoing investigations into domestic abuse by a growing number of National Football League players to the 2012 attacks on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi. The move came a day before House Republicans begin their eighth investigation into the two-year-old tragedy.






After criticism for her initial tweet, Hasselbeck explained that since she had spoken with the mother of one of the people killed in the Benghazi attacks, she believed that “Inserting #Benghazi” into the NFL discussions “is NOT ridiculous-IT IS AN #HONOR.”

On Wednesday, a House Select Committee will hold its first hearing on the Benghazi attacks, attempting to find evidence about the 2012 attacks not discovered by any of the seven previous investigations. Indeed, a declassified version of the House Intelligence Committee’s analysis in July said that panel found “no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration.”


LEARN TO SPEAK BENGHAZI




A spokesman for the Benghazi committee said Tuesday that it “will consider all evidence, across all jurisdictions, and produce the final, definitive accounting on behalf of Congress of what happened before, during and after the terrorist attacks on our facilities in Benghazi.” The committee was created by the House Republican majority in May, almost entirely along party lines, despite Democratic objections that it was a waste of money and that that time could better be spent focusing on matters like income inequality. Despite vows not to fund raise off of the tragedy, it has become self evident to this blogger that this this is a popular fundraising tool for conservatives.

Teabaggers, Republicans, Tin Foil Hat Society Members and Bullshit Mountain [Fox News] alike - over the past two years have often attempted to link the Benghazi attacks to an plethora of seemingly unconnected issues, including crisis's like Ukraine, Gov. Chris Christie’s bridge scandal, the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, immigration reform, deaths in Syria, and the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus. Hasselbeck, not wanting to be left out of the "connect an unrelated story to Benghazi" - Hasselbeck appears to be the first dipshit to connect the deaths in Libya to football.

God bless her, her ignorance is matched by none. Congratulations Elizabeth, you are today's asshat of the day!




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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

LINDSEY GRAHAM'S "BLAIR WITCH PROJECT"

WAR-HAWKS: LINDSEY "LU LU" GRAHAM AND  JOHN "I VETTED ISIS" JOHN MCCAIN



The Daily Show's Jon Stewart went to taking Lindsey "Lu Lu" Graham for his unhinged bedwetting rant over the weekend, where he warned that the "gates of hell" would "spill out onto the world" if President Obama didn't get some boots on the ground to confront ISIS right away.

And as Stewart rightfully noted, it's not just this recent nonsense from Graham that he takes to task - Graham's been doing this sort of thing for at least the last thirteen years, which is why Murica reacts they way they do when "Lu Lu" speaks






The funny part of all this is, is that Lu Lu Graham will gleefully filibuster any bill seeking funds to fight ISIS while simultaneously whining that President Obama isn't doing anything.

Lindesy "Lu Lu" Graham for fear mongering the country, you are today's worst person in the world!  






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Roger West

Monday, September 15, 2014

IOWA'S STEVE KING, AS ONLY HE CAN

STEVE KING. IOWA'S POSTER BOY FOR IGNORANCE


Muslim Americans are fighting back against Rep. Steve King’s suggestion on Thursday that the U.S. government should spy on mosques to stop the recruitment of fighters into the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“The radical Islamists have 1.3 or more billion Muslims to work with,” the Iowa congressman said on The Steve Deace Show. “Now they aren’t all supporters… but that is a huge population to draw from,” he continued, suggesting that recruiters are “certainly in the United States,” particularly in mosques in Virginia and Minneapolis. “So they have a network that they flow in. And it isn’t that all Muslims are a supporter of ISIS but the network that flows through the mosques is certainly the communications centers. We ought to be looking at this dot to dot. And we ought to have people sitting in those mosques watching to see what’s going on,” he explained.

The United States government estimates that more than 100 Americans are already fighting in Syria’s civil war and dozen of whom are part of ISIS.

But American Muslims view ISIS as an abomination to Islam and the group itself has little regard for the fundamental tenets of Islam, blowing up copies of the Qur’an, killing fellow Muslims, and slaughtering innocent youth and using rape and sexual slavery as a weapon.

Virtually every single American Muslim organization has publicly disavowed both the ideology and the practices of ISIS and just a day before King’s remarks dozens of Muslim American clerics and community leaders distanced their religion from the beliefs of the terrorist extremists. “ISIS and al Qaeda represent a warped religious ideology,” Faizal Khan, imam of the Islamic Society of America mosque in Silver Spring, said during a press conference with Muslim-American leaders from Indonesia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Sudan and Trinidad. “Either we reject this violence in the clearest possible terms, or we allow them to become the face of Islam and the world’s perception of us for years to come.”

On Thursday, Muslims in Virginia responded directly to King’s comments. “It’s really reprehensible, red meat rhetoric being thrown out there,” Mahdi Bray of the American Muslim Alliance told the local NBC affiliate in Washington D.C. “No. we don’t need spies in mosques. I think we went through that with Hoover, with Dr. Martin Luther King and that didn’t work either, he saw a communist behind every sheet. So I don’t think there’s a need for that and actually — and, again, this goes back to my original characterization of this being un-American.”

Following the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, the FBI routinely spied on Muslims in mosques. The New York Police Department recently disbanded a unit responsible for infiltrating and eavesdropping on New York’s Muslim communities and in San Francisco, the the FBI in San Francisco used a public relations program “to collect information on the religious views and practices of Muslims in Northern California and then shared the intelligence with other government agencies.”





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STAFF WRITER

Sunday, September 14, 2014

JOHN MCCAIN KNOWS SYRIAN REBELS. WHY, BECAUSE HE "VETTED THEM"

JOHN MCCAIN "VETTING" ISIS AND SYRIAN REBELS
Yes the above photo is a real photo of McCain coddling both ISIS members and General Salim Idris of the Syrian Free Army.





 This from the guy who vetted Sarah Palin. 






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Saturday, September 13, 2014

THEY'RE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, NOT YOUR RELATIVES

THE VOTES ARE IN FLIP JOHN KLINE

And the flip a district winner is - Rep. John Kline of Minnesota.

Bill Maher closed his season premiere on Friday with a scathing takedown of incumbent Rep. John Kline (Tin Foil Hat Society Member from MN), calling on his viewers to help vote him out of office in November.
“More than anyone else we could find, he embodies the easily-swayed whores and sellouts who keep this town running,”
Maher said that unlike someone like Rep. Louie Gohmert (Tin Foil Hat Society Member from TX) — who Maher predicted would one day be “arrested naked masturbating in the street” — Kline is a “silent threat” voters do not see coming. He also predicted that Kline would dismiss his remarks since he’s part of the “Hollywood elite,” but that voters should realize the issue is not about him. “It’s about how Americans have had crummy, corrupt representation for so long they’ve just accepted these people hanging around,” he argued. “Except they don’t have to. They’re your representatives, not your relatives.”





Minnesotan's, wake the hell up and vote this numbmutz out. 






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Friday, September 12, 2014

FINALLY SOMEONE WITH THE TESTICAL FORTITUDE TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS

CBS sportscaster James Brown used his time on air during the pregame for the Baltimore Ravens vs. Pittsburgh Steelers game last night to broadcast a serious message about domestic violence, as outrage over newly-released video depicting former Ravens running back Ray Rice beating his now-wife unconscious continues to ripple through the NFL.





James Brown, doing what little men will do, and that's address the issue head on. Since the Ray Rice incident came to the forefront several months ago, Mr. Brown in less than two minutes, did more than all reporting agencies combined.






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Roger West


Thursday, September 11, 2014

IN REMEMBERANCE - 13 YEARS LATER

May we never forget. 




The only easy day was yesterday.






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Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

GOP-ER DESTROYS BULLSHIT MOUNTAINS WITCH-HUNT ON BENGHAZI

MIKE ROGERS SCHOOLS THE "BENGHAZI CHANNEL" [BULLSHIT MOUNTAIN]


Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, dismissed a conspiracy about the attacks on U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya during an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, undermining a storyline actively promoted by the conservative news network.

On Friday, Fox aired a special about a new book from five commandos who were guarding the CIA annex in Benghazi on the night of Sep. 11, 2012. They claim that the chief of the CIA annex in Benghazi gave a stand down order that prevented forces from rescuing U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans. The charges echoed long-standing theories, perpetuated by Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators, claiming that the Obama administration botched the rescue mission and later sought to cover it up.

But Rogers, whose committee found that no such “stand down” order was given, defended the station chief’s momentary hesitation and accused lawyers connected with the men and their book of lodging sensationalistic claims in order to sell more books.
“The problem is what happened was the commander on the ground, this guy they’re calling Bob, when these folks came up, they got in the vehicle and said, ‘we made a promise, we’re going,’ he said, ‘wait a minute. I need to figure out a, what’s going on and b, if I can get you any better weapons and maybe even some help to go,” Rogers explained, adding, “it was the commander on the ground making the decision. I think it took 23 minutes before they all, including that commander, by the way, got in a car and went over and rescued those individuals.”





Asked about accusations made by the commandos’ lawyer that intelligence committee sought to intimidate and dismiss the men in order to protect former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rogers bristled.
“The lawyers asked that none of their testimony be released until after their book was out and being sold,” he said. “I think you have lawyers who have a financial interest in this certainly making allegations that are far from true.”

Obama administration and Defense Department officials have repeatedly debunked claims of a “stand down” order. In February of 2013, Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey explained to the Senate “these are not aircraft on strip alert” and then-secretary of Defense Leon Panetta testified that “without an adequate warning, there was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond.” The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee similarly concluded that U.S. military would have been unable to respond in time to the attacks.

This "all telling" book title is, 13 Hours In Benghazi. There is no doubt that Bullshit Mountain [Fox News] has spent thousands of hours trying to convince Murica that there's a reason to keep believing this was anything other than what it is, which is a tragedy that sometimes happens when diplomatic personnel are in countries that are radical in nature and are no friend to Americans.





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Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

BULLSHIT MOUNTAINS LATEST BENGHAZI THEORY IS - WHITE HOUSE ASKED THEM TO STOP LYING ABOUT BENGHAZI

FOX NEWS AKA BULLSHIT MOUNTAIN IS AT IT AGAIN



Fox's Greta Van Susteren spoke with Sean 'Waterboarding is not torture" Hannity last night on what would appear to be a new page in the "Benghazi Scandal that wasn't" - Faux News' newest outrage - yet more bullshit from the lairs club - That the White House asked her [Van Susteren] to try to get her coworkers to quit lying about Benghazi.


GRETA AND HANNITY




If indeed this story was true, why wouldn't Van Susteren break this news during her own hour show [due to piss poor ratings] rather than bust it out Hannity? Why two years later, is Van Susteren now bitching about being bullied by the Obama Administration? Why didn't she complain to viewers when it originally happened?

Like most liars, Bullshit mountain can't remember the lies they tell. At first this was about Hillary Clinton ordering a stand down order which delayed any rescue attempts at Benghazi, now they have vectored to the white house bullying bullshit mountain about their reporting.


BAIER CONSPIRACY THEORY




With regards to the Brett Baier Conspiracy - any attempt to interject help into the fracas at Benghazi - The typical combat radius of a military aircraft, its around 500 miles. Break out a map and draw a 500 miles circle around Benghazi. Count the number of coalition forces and or bases in said circle - now multiply this by the number of bases that house a ready response force capable of an operation in Benghazi. The resulting number should be enough to satisfy even stupid people but...


LEARN HOW TO SPEAK BENGHAZI




Even though the House Intelligence Committee has found no wrongdoing on the part of the administration, bullshit mountain continues to beat the drum of a story that never was.

When it comes to bullshit mountain, It is a conspiracy about the conspiracy that it is a conspiracy.





NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Monday, September 8, 2014

NEW VIDEO SHOWS RAY RICE BEATING WIFE



UPDATE: 9/8/14 15:00 RAY RICE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY

(ESPN) TMZ Sports has posted a video that it says shows Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee in the face in the elevator of an Atlantic City hotel in February. The punch drew a two-game suspension from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, a penalty that was so severely criticized as too lenient that Goodell revamped the league's policies against domestic violence.

Just disgusting! Roger Goodell needs to punish Ray Rice more severely, change his minimal 2 game suspension and let Mr. Rice be held accountable for knocking his then fiancée out, dragger her, and then dropping her on her face on the hard floor.

Ray Rice you are today's douche bag of the day!






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Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Sunday, September 7, 2014

COP SEXUALLY ASSUALTS 7 WOMEN AND GETS RELEASED FROM JAIL

OFFICER DANIEL KEN HOLTZCLAW SEXUALLY ASSAULTS 7 WOMEN AND WALKS ON BAIL


Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Ken Holtzclaw was released from jail Friday as he faces charges for allegedly sexually assaulting 7 different African American women while he was on duty. Among the claims against him are forcible rape, burglary, and felonious stalking.

The judge who initially set his bond at $5 million said he researched his target victims and tracked them down before assaulting them, according to Michigan Live. The 27-year-old former college football player’s bond was later reduced and he paid $500,000 to be released from jail and placed on home arrest. Holtzclaw was removed from duty in June after a women reported a sexual assault during a traffic stop. Many other women subsequently came forward.

Holtzclaw’s sister had initiated a campaign on GoFundMe To raise money for his legal defense. The site removed the campaign citing complaints, even though it would not heed calls to take down the lucrative fundraising campaign for Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown. But in the first 72 hours, the campaign had raised nearly $7,000. And the campaign continued to solicit donations to fund Holtzclaw’s bail through its Facebook page. They are also selling t-shirts through that page with the messages “FREE THE CLAW” and “JUSTICE4DANIELHOLTZCLAW.”

In any given month, there are multiple reports of on-duty cops raping women. And while the details of the allegations against Holtzclaw have not yet been made public, other instances of assault often involve police abusing their position of power against women who called the cops seeking help. In Milwaukee, a teen mom who called 911 because someone threw a brick through her window was raped by one of the officers and then held in jail for four days on charges of assaulting the officer. That officer had been previously accused of assaulting several other women — two of them prisoners — but hadn’t been charged in those incidents. In Baltimore, a woman reported she was raped by a cop who reported to the scene of her car accident. And in Georgia, a woman was assaulted by a cop after she called 911 to report domestic violence. Rather than arrest the husband accused of assault, the officer took the victim in his car and gave her the choice between going to jail or having sex with him, then used his gun during the rape.

Unlike police shootings, these instances are most likely to become public only when criminal charges follow. Those incidents that have come to the fore illustrate the ways in which women are victims of police violence, too.

"White privilege" you say? Rogue cops you say? Absolutely and unequivocally yes!

When does society and our justice system hold Barney Fife's to a higher standard? What kind of people are we when we support brutal corrupt cops through our wallets?

Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, poster boy for the code of blue......"who me"!





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Editor-In-Chief
Roger West





Saturday, September 6, 2014

"CHRIST DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, AND THEY WENT AFTER HIM"

TRANSVAGINAL BOB PROMOTING JOHNNY WILLIAMS 


These words spoken [See first video below] from a neighbor who is helping the McDonnell's through the guilty verdict. Bob and Maureen did do something wrong, they are criminals and they are nothing like Christ!

This neighbors comments are mind numbing, and it would appear that "Terry" [Neighbor] suffers from the same Hubris that the transvaginal governor does.

What world do these people live in?


GUIDELINES SAY ABOUT 9 YEARS FOR TRANSVAGINAL BOB Video Courtesy of MSNBC




A JUROR SPEAKS Video Courtesy of MSNBC




McDonnell's gift list, click the link to see the gift matrix.

In the end -- and this is the end for Transvaginal Bob, although he is yet to be sentenced -- We are eft with a feeling of amazement at the vast gap between how McDonnell was regarded and who he turned out to be. His judgment, which was heralded as one of his best attributes, wound up being by far one of his worst.

McDonnell's political career has long been over; the jury's decision simply put the nail in the coffin. His professional and personal decline, sealed his fate - by a jury of his peers last Thursday - remains stunning in its depth, and points to how truly oblivious to reality this pinhead is.

Bob and Maureen McDonnell, neighbor "Terry" - if indeed they are "Christians" - they are what's wrong with Christianity! Christianity does not mean free reign to; abuse power, be corrupt, and lie. "Conservative Christian Values", don't you want some?





NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Friday, September 5, 2014

THE HUBRIS OF BOB MCDONNELL

MCDONNELL'S - CROOKS AND LIARS


What's dumber than a guy who risks 30 yrs in prison for $165k? A guy who turns down a plea deal excusing 13 out of 14 charges, and alleviates his wife of any charges? Your answer, there is nothing dumber!

Not too long ago, former Virginia Gov. (Transvaginal) Bob McDonnell was a rising star, labeled a likely candidate for national office.

As of yesterday afternoon, this conservative (tea bagger) "Family Valued" Christian Republican has a different label: convicted felon.

The Hubris of this [numbnutz] "Family Valued Christian Conservative" is overwhelming.

The governor prior to today, was better known for forcing women to undergo unwarranted vaginal probes - but due to his sever case of hubris, Transvaginal Bob will now go down in infamy as the sleazy lying corrupt GOP Govna of Virginia who not only tossed his wife Maureen under the bus, but he backed over her several times for good measure.

Not in modern time, not since Mary Todd Lincoln was betrayed by her eldest son, has this country seen a court trial, betrayal, like Bob McDonnell's - with his treatment of his wife - with such disgust and unfettered distaste - playing out for the world to see, as if it was a reality show gone horribly wrong.

Wife-Dumping Defense Fails ‘Family Man’ McDonnell Video Courtesy of MSNBC




Bob has the potential to spend many years of his life in federal prison [30 years], and rightly so. Bob and Maureen are what's wrong with politics today - and more specifically, what's wrong with "Republican Christian Family/Political Values".

Speaking of karma, now that Transvaginal Bob is a convicted felon, he should lose hundreds of thousands of dollars [unless successful under a court appeal] due to a bill that he signed back in 2011, which in essence denies retirement benefits to public employees convicted of on-the-job felonies.


McDonnell Trial A Spectacle To The End Video Courtesy of MSNBC




Republicans, often of late, seem to suffer from a myriad of diseases, "Bushnesia", "Romnesia", foot-in-mouth disease and hubris. In the end it was the Hubris and stupidity that sunk the vagina probers life.

It's really hard to celebrate Bob McDonnell's going to jail when so many other crooks and liars [aka republican politicians] are running free.The next query for conservatives is, "is orange the new black" for them?









NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Thursday, September 4, 2014

BREAKING NEWS: TRANSVAGINAL BOB MCDONNELL AND WIFE MAUREEN FOUND GUILTY ON A MYRIAD OF COUNTS




FORMER GOVERNOR BOB MCDONNELL FOUND GUILTY ON ELEVEN COUNTS OF CORRUPTION AND WIFE MAUREEN GUILTY ON NINE COUNTS.


Stay tuned to NFTOS as well shall have an in-depth look into Transvaginal Bob's woes now the he  is guilty on the majority of charges against him. 





NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Ex-Navy SEAL Charged For Lying About Being Shot By Three Racist Black Men


From The RAW STORY

Police in Ohio have charged a former Navy SEAL after discovering “overwhelming evidence” that he lied when he said three black men shouted obscenities at him, and then shot him in the stomach.

Chris Heben, a 44-year-old former Navy SEAL who served from 1996 through 2006, told police in Bath Township that he was almost hit by a low-profile sports car in a grocery store parking lot in Akron on March 28. He said that there were three black men in the car, and that they shouted obscenities at him.

Heben claimed that he went into the Mustard Seed grocery store, but returned to his car because he forgot his wallet.

That’s when one of the men in the same car yelled, “You got a big mouth white boy. You need to learn some f*cking respect,” and then shot him in the abdomen.

According to Heben’s story, he plugged the bullet hole, and tried to chase the men down in his car until he began to lose consciousness. So, he stopped at a fire station for help.

Heben’s incredible story scored him interviews with national media outlets like CNN and Fox News, and turned him into a local hero, boosting his profile as a spokesperson for the Montrose Auto Group.
But on Wednesday, Bath Township police said that most of Heben’s story was a lie, WEWS reported.
“We have overwhelming evidence based upon video, cell phone records and interviews that the shooting did not occur in the West Market Plaza and that Mr. Heben made false allegations to us,” Bath Township Police Chief Mike McNeely explained.
McNeely said that only Heben could answer when and how he was shot.

Heben could spend up to 180 days in jail for communicating false information to police, a first-degree misdemeanor. He was also charged with a second-degree misdemeanor for obstructing official police business.

WKYC reported that Heben has a previous conviction for “three counts of forgery related to prescriptions of controlled substances.” Watch video below.







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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

THE EMMA SULKOWICZ STORY

EMMA SULKOWICZ, ONE BRAVE WOMAN


For her senior thesis in visual arts at Columbia University, senior Emma Sulkowicz will carry around a mattress everywhere she goes as long as her rapist is enrolled at the same Ivy League school as she is. The public project reflects the fact that Sulkowicz was raped in her dorm bed at the beginning of her junior year.
“The piece could potentially take a day, or it could go on until I graduate,” she explains in a video about her project published on the Columbia Spectator. “For me, it’s an endurance performance arts piece.”
The student who assaulted Sulkowicz currently remains on campus — even though two other women who attend Columbia University have also brought sexual assault complaints against him. Last spring, Sulkowicz joined a group of students to file a federal Title IX complaint accusing Columbia of mishandling rape cases. And since then, she’s spoken to multiple news outlets about her disappointment in the administration officials and police officers who failed to deliver her justice.

Now, as Sulkowicz embarks on her senior thesis — entitled Carry That Weight or Mattress Performance — her mattress has been transformed into a powerful symbol of her sexual assault. Under the terms of her performance art project, she’s not allowed to ask for help carrying the bulky object, but she is allowed to accept help from others if they take the initiative to offer.
“A mattress is the perfect size for me to just be able to carry it enough that I can continue with my day, but also heavy enough that I have to continually struggle with it,” the senior explains in her video. “I think the other thing about beds is that we keep them in our bedroom, which is our intimate and private space… The past year or so of my life has been really marked by telling people what happened in that most intimate, private space and bringing it out into the light.”
Although the art project just launched on Tuesday, it’s already received significant coverage in the national media and won the praise of sexual assault activists. The visual arts professor who worked with Sulkowicz to develop the concept, Jon Kessler, told the Columbia Spectator that her piece could ultimately impact campus culture. “As a physical metaphor, the piece has tremendous power,” he noted.

Columbia University is no stranger to bold acts of protest against sexual assault. Back in 1999, students there started using red tape to symbolize their administration’s inaction on issues related to rape and violence, proclaiming that “red tape won’t cover up rape.” This past school year, current students resurrected the so-called “red tape protests” again, which quickly spread to other college campuses. And last spring, fed up with the lack of progress on the school’s sexual assault policy, Columbia students made national headlines by scrawling the names of accused rapists on bathroom walls all over campus.

Administrators have attempted to placate protesters by making some updates to the campus sexual assault policy. Nonetheless, the controversy swirling around the school hasn’t abated. Just a few days ago, the Nation obtained and published an email exchange between school administrators that students say exhibits a disdain for the anti-rape movement on campus.





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