Triumph of the Wrong (Paul Krugman)

"...So now is a good time to remember just how wrong the new rulers of Congress have been about, well, everything..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/opinion/paul-krugman-triumph-of-the-wrong.html?_r=0

A Message From Tom Ashbrook

"For all of our On Point listeners, who I very much think of as a kind of community – an important community – there is something personal I have to share. It’s hard, and it’s as intimate as anything on Earth..."

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/11/05/an-important-message-from-tom-ashbrook

Week In The News: A GOP Tidal Wave, New ISIS Strategy, Remembering Tom Magliozzi (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Midterm message delivered. Republicans take control of the Senate. Pick up more seats in the House and governorships in some of the bluest states. President Obama says he’s ready to work with Republicans. The soon-to-be Senate Leader Mitch McConnell says the same. Can they? Will they? Will immigration be the first showdown? Also this week: reports of possible chemical exposure to US troops in Iraq. New jobs numbers. Taylor Swift hits a new record. This hour, On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. – Jane Clayson

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/11/07/midterms-gop-mitch-mcconnell-barack-obama-isis-car-talk

Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Diane Rehm Show)

President Barack Obama meets with leaders from both parties today to discuss future collaboration, following the decisive Republican victory in the midterm elections. The GOP says approving the Keystone XL pipeline and rolling back the Affordable Care Act are among its top priorities for the new Congress. A federal appeals court upholds the ban on gay marriage in four states, paving the way for the Supreme Court to take up the issue. Gas prices dip below $3 a gallon for the first time in four years. And the U.S. unemployment rate falls to 5.8 percent in October.

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-11-07/friday_news_roundup_domestic

Friday News Roundup – International (Diane Rehm Show)

President Obama says he will seek authorization from Congress for the military campaign against the Islamic State. That could lead to a heated debate over the nature of the latest U.S. involvement in Iraq and Syria. President Obama reported writes a secret letter last month to Iran’s supreme leader. In it, he seeks to link cooperation in the fight against ISIS to a nuclear deal. While Ebola loosens its grip on Liberia, a new outbreak hits Sierra Leone. And a Mexican mayor and his wife are arrested in the disappearance of 43 three students. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week’s top international news stories.

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-11-07/friday_news_roundup_international

Bill Maher Rips Cowardly Democrats Who Are Throwing President Obama Under The Bus

Bill Maher unloaded on cowardly Democratic candidates who have adopted the loser strategy of distancing themselves from the president, and throwing Obama under the bus.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/01/bill-maher-cowardly-democrats-throwing-obama-bus.html

Bill Maher pushes Democrats to defend Obama and GO VOTE!

Maher said:

The midterms are here in four days, and Democrats are in big trouble. Despite the fact that the only idea the Republicans have this election is, "Don't let anybody get you started on rape". But it didn't have to be this way, if Democratic candidates would just stop throwing their own people and achievements under the bus, and distancing themselves from their own president! That is never a winning strategy. Just ask President Al Gore. (audience murmurs turn to applause)
....
Well, sorry, but the one I feel bad for is Obama.
63 straight months of economic expansion.
A depression averted.
A deficit reduced by two thirds.
A healthcare law that's working and lowering costs.
Two women on the Supreme Court.
bin Laden's dead.
Stock market at record heights.
An unemployment rate that dropped from 10.2 to 5.9%. If you're a Fox News viewer trying to do the math, that's less. (audience laughter and applause)
Gas prices are down.
Is it really that hard a record to get behind? And yet, the way these Democrats have been distancing themselves from the President, you would think he'd just flown in from Liberia with his lunch in a barf bag. (audeince laughter) There are beheading videos with more likes. (audeince oohs)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/01/1340797/-MUST-SEE-Bill-Maher-pushes-Democrats-to-defend-Obama-and-GO-VOTE

http://youtu.be/3p5kzwd7mZo

Georgia Pastor Has His Mind Blown by European Atheists: 'If There’s No God, Why Should I Believe?’

During a trip to secular Nordic countries, Baptist pastor Marty McLain was asked by one man: “If there’s no god, why should I believe in him?”

http://www.alternet.org/belief/georgia-pastor-has-his-mind-blown-european-atheists-if-theres-no-god-why-should-i-believe

http://youtu.be/wuDqEGlKOus



Kopimism defined:

A religion is a belief system with rituals.
The missionary kopimistsamfundet is a religious group centered in Sweden who believe that copying and the sharing of information is the best and most beautiful that is. To have your information copied is a token of appreciation, that someone think you have done something good.  http://kopimistsamfundet.se/english/

Russell Brand’s Revolution For Morons

"The movie star’s political manifesto is full of mistakes, misquotes, and is utterly misguided, unfunny, illogical, and unreadable. Watch the copies fly from the shelves..."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/02/russell-brand-s-revolution-for-morons.html

Why Right-Wing Christians Believe GOP Lies

The Republican Party base is white evangelicals. So it's no wonder that GOP lies about the country, the economy and the president worked. The folks who base their lives on religious mythology have spent lifetimes being trained to believe lies. On Tuesday they won. Lies won.

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In my Son's Middle School Health/Gym Class - Imgur

Jon Stewart On The Aftermath Of The Midterm Elections

 The Daily Show's Jon Stewart took on the media for their context-free coverage of this year's midterm elections and their tendency to discuss events a...  Read more

Colbert Whacks Ft. Lauderdale For Arresting 90-Year-Old Man For Feeding The Homeless

The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert gave the city of Fort Lauderdale and their Mayor Jack Seiler the treatment they deserved for arresting a 90-ye...  Read more

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Anti-Gay Pastor: Sodomite Semen Seasons Starbucks Selections

These fundamentalist pastors spend an awful lot of time fantasizing about gay men -- those big, husky brutes, spraying their semen into our coffee! Oh... Read more

http://youtu.be/WVjStWtQPYM

RWW News: Fischer: God Kicked Native Americans Off Their Land As Punishment For Sins

http://youtu.be/3N0g0fbDKTw

Election Divides GOP On Whether To Seize And Sell America’s Public Lands

High-profile Republican candidates who won competitive races in the West deliberately distanced themselves from their party's ...  Read more

In One Paragraph, Federal Judge Exposes Fundamental Flaw With The Argument Against Marriage Equality

“In the main, the majority treats both the issues and the litigants here as mere abstractions,” she wrote. “Instead of recognizing the plaintiffs as persons, suffering actual harm as a result of being denied the right to marry where they reside or the right to have their valid marriages recognized there, my colleagues view the plaintiffs as social activists who have somehow stumbled into federal court, inadvisably, when they should be out campaigning to win ‘the hearts and minds’ of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee voters to their cause.” ...  Read more

Mitch McConnell Says His Top Priority Is To ‘Get The EPA Reined In’

McConnell has told his donors that he will work hard to thwart the Obama agenda, including pushing coal, moving forward with ...  Read more

Why Monster Is Failing And Others Will Follow

In 2006 Monster.com was one of the 20 most visited websites in the world. By January of 2011, Monster was rated the worst stock of the year. Earlier t...  Read more

Medical Experts Denounce Fox News' Dr. Keith Ablow As 'Shameful' 'Narcissistic Self-Promoter'

Fox News' resident psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow was vilified by medical experts as a narcissist blowhard and an embarrassment to the profession and shameful that he has a platform.
... Read more

Chicago’s Shocking Priest Abuse Revealed

Chicago Priests Raped and Pillaged for 50 Years. In a disturbing document dump outlining lurid clerical abuse and a trail of coverups, retiring Cardinal Francis George tries to clear his conscience.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/06/chicago-archdiocese-s-shocking-priest-abuse-revealed.html

5 of the Craziest Conspiracy Theories that Freshman Republicans Will Bring to Congress

"Senator-elect Joni Ernst, a Republican of Iowa, shares their fears. Last year, Ernst predicted that Agenda 21 agents may start “moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers and then telling them that you don’t have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind and it’s bad for the United States, bad for families here in the state of Iowa.”...

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http://youtu.be/SZHzwLeTubo

ADHD Brains Are the Most Creative: Why Do We Treat It Like a Disability?

"Research shows that people who have ADHD are often extremely creative. Yet our schools and society fail them..."
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Savage’s New Book Not About Averting, But Fomenting Civil War

"Given the title, you might think that Michael Savage's Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth would be about prevent... " Read more

Maryland Voters Elected A Neo-Confederate Who Says Government's Role Is To Enforce God's Law

"... Peroutka is a radical Christian Reconstructionist, a Southern secessionist, and has claimed in the past that "so-called civil rights laws" aren't valid because "there is no such thing as civil rights." This man, who wound up as the newly elected to the Anne Arundel County Council in Maryland, has claimed that promoting evolution is an "act of disloyalty to America" and said that SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy "hates God" because "he thinks he is God." Peroutka, not above the querulous paranoia so rampant on the right wing today, cleverly refers to being gay as a "deathstyle" and has claimed in the past that they're out to "recruit your children."...
...  Read more

The 'Double Government' Secret Gets Out

You know something is going on when the cautious Boston Globe publishes not one, but two, pieces dealing with the "double government." This cryptic p...  Read more

GOP Gerrymandering: Dems Never Had A Chance

As Bill Moyers points out, Republican gerrymandering rigged the game so much that it was all but impossible for Dems to win.

...  Read more

Bernie Sanders To His 2016 Backers: Prove To Me You Are Willing To Take On The 'Billionaire Class'

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday advised Republicans not to use their newly-won control of Congress to only serve the wealthy donor...  Read more

http://youtu.be/gbp0DIkAu-k

C-SPAN Caller On Air: 'Republicans Hate That N***er Obama' (VIDEO)

A man who called into C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" Thursday morning referred to President Barack Obama as "that n***er" before getting booted off the... Read more

http://youtu.be/9DKLWq5KPac

Boehner Ready For War: Not 'My Job' To Be Friendly With Obama

Where incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) struck what was almost a conciliatory tone after his party's sweeping victories on Tuesda... Read more

Obesity Is About To Surpass Tobacco As The Leading Cause Of Cancer

But most Americans have no idea there's any link between the two to begin with...  Read more

More Than 100 Birds Die After Landing On Tar Sands Waste Ponds In Canada

Despite the use of cannons, noise machines and scarecrows, tar sands tailings ponds are still killing birds in Canada.The post ...  Read more

How To Engage And Win The Conversation About Climate And Energy

Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions has updated their excellent messaging guide on climate and clean energy, "Climate ...  Read more

House Speaker Says Congress May Not Act On Immigration Reform, No Matter What Obama Does

Boehner blames the kids who crossed the border this summer for the House's failure to act. The post House Speaker Says Congress ...  Read more

Election night was a long one for atheist voters

...Another result atheists are trumpeting is the defeat of Illinois Republican congressional candidate Susanne Atanus. Atanus announced to a local newspaper’s editorial board that “I believe in God first” and characterized bad weather, autism and other diseases as a divine punishment for gay marriage...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/election-night-was-a-long-one-for-atheist-voters/2014/11/05/668943da-6529-11e4-ab86-46000e1d0035_story.html

John Saffron vs. God - Bible Code

http://youtu.be/wyNi7bYt0v0

Sam Harris talks about his comment 'Islam Is The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas'

http://youtu.be/pqcJTbpWgBk

How the Lame Democrats Blew It

Contrary to the musings of various pollsters and political pundits, Democrats never stood a chance. Many of the so-called "razor-close" races in key s...  Read more

GOP War Plan For ISIS, Ukraine & Obama

The Republican victory in the 2014 midterms is less than 24 hours old. But already, the hawkish wing of the GOP is planning an ambitious battle plan t...  Read more

Watch: John Oliver on the Pasty Conservative Bureaucrats Destroying American Democracy

The "investigative comedian" on ALEC, the conservative "bill mill." While midterm coverage is largely focused on the parts of Congress that do very little, vital (and bizarre) midterm elections are going unexamined. State legislators pass a lot of bills, and some of that efficiency is thanks to a group called ALEC that writes legislation for them. It’s as shady as it sounds!

...  Read more

http://youtu.be/aIMgfBZrrZ8

11 Jobs Where an Honest Day's Work Earns You Poverty

The current minimum wage is a maximum shame on America.
...  Read more

Could wind farms of the future be underwater?

Company plans submerged turbines off the coast of Scotland. Read more

Possible alternative to antibiotics

Scientists from the University of Bern have developed a novel substance for the treatment of severe bacterial infections without antibiotics, which would prevent the development of antibiotic resistance. Read more

Global Warming Denier Will Head Committee Dealing With Global Warming

In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy. Their votes also put the Senate's environment and climate policy into the hands of the worst science-denier in national politics: Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who is almost certainly the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/global-warming-denier-will-head-committee

Welcome To The United Slaves Of Amerikoch

Honestly, what can be said for a people who, for the most part voted in favor of progressive issues but elected candidates that would never allow any ...  Read more

Exorcist Gordon Klingenschmitt Elected To CO State House

Far-right Christianist zealot Gordon Klingenschmitt was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. He's most likely the first exorcism- practic... Read more

Meet The Real Next Senate Majority Leader: Ted Cruz

If you thought House Speaker John Boehner has had a miserable time trying to govern, wait until you see what incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is about to deal with.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/next-senate-majority-leader

Obama: No, I'm Not Going To Allow The GOP To Repeal Obamacare

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would be "open and receptive" to "responsible changes" to Obamacare proposed by the new GOP Congress, bu... Read more

Tea Partiers Are Already Warning The New GOP Majority: 'We're Watching You'

Leaders of some of the most prominent tea party and conservative-aligned outside groups gathered for a press conference on Wednesday to take a post- G... Read more

Chevron Spent Millions To Influence These Local Elections — And Lost Big

The oil giant spent upwards of $3 million on mayoral and select city council races, but Richmond voters wholly rejected that ...  Read more

Americans Are Voting For Fracking Bans Because They Don’t Trust The Oil And Gas Industry

In California, Ohio, and Texas, citizens in four localities voted to ban hydraulic fracturing, challenging the balance of power ...  Read more

World Health Organization Leader Blames Big Pharma’s Greed For Delaying Ebola Vaccine

 "The World Health Organization has been trying to make this issue visible for ages. Now people can see for themselves." The ...  Read more

Abortion Opponents Underestimate The Number Of Women They Know Who Had One

A new study points to the deep roots of abortion stigma.The post Abortion Opponents Underestimate The Number Of Women They Know ...  Read more

Scotland Produced Enough Wind Energy To Power Every Home In October

Wind turbines generated enough electricity in October to power 3,045,000 homes in the U.K. -- more than enough for all the ...  Read more

McConnell's Shutdown Conundrum

There is "no possibility of a government shutdown" in the new Republican Congress, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told TIME magazine ... Read more

Here Is What The GOP Promises To Do With Its New Senate Majority | ThinkProgress

"...Republicans have laid out goals that do have bipartisan support and could conceivably be signed into law by President Barack Obama. For instance, both parties have expressed support for tweaking aspects of the Affordable Care Act by repealing the law’s medical device tax, an independent board tasked with controlling health care costs, and modifying or outright eliminating the law’s employer responsibility provision — a measure the administration itself has delayed twice and some prominent progressives have walked away from..."
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/11/05/3589132/republicans-promise-to-compromise-with-obama-after-winning-big-in-midterm-election/

How to Argue with Assholes

http://youtu.be/YezbREhH_Eg

Lawrence Krauss - Should Religion Be Taught in School?

“If you think about that, somehow saying that, well, anything goes, we shouldn’t offend religious beliefs by requiring kids to know – to understand reality; that’s child abuse,” Krauss said in a video published by Big Think. “And if you think about it, teaching kids – or allowing the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old to be promulgated in schools is like teaching kids that the distance across the United States is 17 feet. That’s how big an error it is.”

http://youtu.be/Mb_vYxIyzrI

Australian atheist had enough of door knocking mormons

... travels to Salt lake city and goes door to door to return the favor...

http://youtu.be/U58wgn-9Y3c

PowerPoint tip: pointer

LPT: Instead of wiggling the mouse cursor when giving a powerpoint presentation, hold control and left-click while you move the mouse to get a red laser pointer dot.
http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2la2m8/lpt_instead_of_wiggling_the_mouse_cursor_when/

90-year-old Florida man arrested for feeding the homeless

On Sunday, the city charged three people, including two ministers and a 90-year-old homeless advocate, and they could face up to 60-days in jail for their so-called crime.

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Jon Stewart Slams Republicans For Fearmongering And Voter Suppression To Win Midterms

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart with his final edition of Democalypse 2014 prior to the midterm elections this Tuesday, which as he noted, aren't looking...  Read more

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If They Win, Republicans Plan To Serve Impeachment With Side Of Nativism

I'm not one of those who is sold on the idea that Republican control of the Senate is a foregone conclusion. But just about everyone else in the media...  Read more

#UnKoch College! Students Fight Back Against Charles Koch

As students in Michigan, Kansas and Virginia attempt to pin down evasive administrators to review grant contracts cut between billionaire Charles Koch...  Read more

Jon Stewart: GOP Message Is Vote For Us 'Or Get Beheaded' (VIDEO)

On the eve of the 2014 election, "The Daily Show" took a moment on Monday to clarify the core messages Republicans and Democrats are sending out to vo... Read more

How Renewables In Developing Countries Are Leapfrogging Traditional Power

Lagging infrastructure has left many developing countries with high fossil fuel costs, making renewables and distributed solar ...  Read more

Fareed Zakaria Bumps Head with Sam Harris and Gets A Bruising

Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN, 10-2-2014

http://youtu.be/JqGIJBClwbQ

The language of lying - Noah Zandan

We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach? Noah Zandan uses some famous examples of lying to illustrate how we might use communications science to analyze the lies themselves.

http://youtu.be/H0-WkpmTPrM

22-Year-Old Mother Working Two Jobs Blasts Lawmakers Who Oppose Raising The Minimum Wage

"These people don't understand the struggle, but then they sit here and say they care about the people," she said. "How do you ...  Read more