Weird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria #149

Troy Davis

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Road-raging George Zimmerman faces no charges after threatening to shoot another driver

 
Gringos are nuts.
"Stand Your Ground" gringos are as wacky as Waco.

"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons-and-gun-violence.html

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Stephen Colbert’s slam on Fox’s Brit Hume last night was too off-color for this headline

Cops fatally shoot Utah man carrying a sword, but they won’t say why

• Stephen Colbert absolutely destroys Scott Brown

• Bill Moyers: 'Corporate America pays to send global warming deniers to Capitol Hill'

• Mitch McConnell refuses to say raising the minimum wage won't lead to fascism

• The Daily Show: Thoroughly Modern Militants

• The Daily Show: The League of Exculpatory Gentlemen

• Pastor Mark Driscoll calls women 'penis homes'; His megachurch begins closing branches

• Stephen Colbert gives a wag of the finger to Donald Trump


• Why are we fighting someone else's war again?


• This is a big ask but we are finally getting a vote on Citizens United today


• Congress and FCC deluged with calls on net neutrality—keep them coming!


• Another Republican candidate implodes by telling the truth about his beliefs


• Iceland volcano eruption update: 'Like being in an enclosed space with a diesel engine'


• Incredible discovery made at Stonehenge


• Guy at the bar starts mouthing off about immigrants so I ask 'What would you do?'


• The story the Wall Street Journal won't touch


• The astonishing story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11


• My fellow Americans, please stop being idiots


• The Wall Street Journal cries about the poverty of making $400,000 a year


• Tuesday night was the end of Andrew Cuomo's presidential ambitions


• So why isn't Ronald Ritchie being charged with manslaughter in police killing of John Crawford?


• Today's dispatch from our post-racial America


• Young black man at Ferguson town hall: 'We got the power, you don't

• NSFW rant: Release the goats, Smithers!


• PHOTOS: Three million petition signatures to overturn Citizens United delivered to Congress


• The maps of New York City that show why progressives often lose Democratic primaries


• The true story of Daily Kos members getting together offline to visit a U.S. Senator's office


• New poll shows Kansas Republicans in serious danger of going 0-for-3 this year


• Appalling: GOP congressman explains why his colleagues don't want to vote on military strikes against ISIS


• After family of four drowns in Oregon lake, man gets $5,000 fine for posting warning signs


• Georgia State Senator vows to block early voting site too 'near' black voters


• Fox & Friends hosts claim they weren't taking domestic violence lightly with 'take the stairs' joke


• House Republicans slash Obama's requested Ebola funding


• House Republicans ask Dick Cheney what to do in Middle East


• VIDEO: 13 year old who schooled Palin, McCrory, and Phyllis Schlafly has more to say


• Republicans fighting among themselves over further Obamacare repeal votes


• Racists swarm to attack #Ferguson Kids video


• Iceland volcano update: Keeping it in perspective

• A progressive estate tax

Cop won’t be charged in videotaped beating of girlfriend, who says they were ‘playing around’

Ohio woman raped after bus driver boots her onto street at 1 a.m. over a broken flip-flop

GoFundMe bans all abortion-related campaigns — except for the anti-abortion ones

Florida official guns down wife, then himself in locked bedroom as 10-year-old daughter listens

Trial begins for mother who fatally poisoned her autistic son in posh hotel room

Federal prosecutors seek up to 16 months in prison for conservative author Dinesh D’Souza

Jon Stewart skewers NFL’s fumbling of Ray Rice videotape: ‘You done f*cked up’

Hello Kitty-loving ‘sovereign citizen’ busted again for driving his Pinto with phony plates

Israel likely to have committed Gaza war crimes: Human Rights Watch

Ex-NY Mets exec claims team owner’s son fired her for being pregnant and unmarried

Oscar Pistorius found not guilty of the murder of his girlfriend

Florida child porn suspect had 50 dead cats in his freezer, police say

Full text of Obama’s special address on combating the Islamic State (ISIS / ISIL)

Missouri lawmakers override governor’s veto of ’72-hour’ abortion law

Fox contributor complains that ‘anti-testicular police’ are trying to take Ray Rice’s ‘b*lls’

Truthers commemorate 9/11 with Times Square ad showing WTC 7 imploding on infinite loop

Ted Cruz storms offstage after getting booed by Christian group he insulted

Anchorage police confirm Palin family involved in heated Saturday night brawl

Colorado GOP candidate comes out as Sandy Hook truther during debate

Conservatives claim 9/11 attacks are the direct result of legalizing abortion in 1973

Utah elementary school teacher shoots self through leg with concealed weapon

Conspiracy theorists freak out over scheduled Internet outages on 9/11 anniversary

Georgia teacher burns through sick days to protest criticism of classroom Bible-thumping

Tested after 14 years, rape kit incriminates ex-Memphis cop who now works at kids home

Student petitions school to allow senior portrait of him and his cat in yearbook

Dick Cheney lectures Obama on the Islamic State and the ‘war on terror

Sarah Palin: ‘I owe America a global apology because John McCain should be our president’

Ben Carson tells Bill O’Reilly: ‘I’m not sure’ that domestic violence is widespread

Hannity guest: Rice’s wife ‘knocked herself out’ on elevator railing so he’s the ‘bigger victim’

Mass. woman arrested after three dead babies discovered in filthy condemned home

If you’ve had sushi in California in the last four years, you probably ate tainted ‘flush rice’

After the riots, Ferguson businesses long for normal: ‘People are too scared to come down’

Texas teen Tyler Holder sentenced to life in prison for rape, murder of 6-year-old neighbor

Michael Dunn will be retried on murder charges for killing 17-year-old over loud music

Anchorage police confirm Palin family involved in heated Saturdaynight brawl

• Senate Republicans defend billionaires by keeping Citizens United alive


• Massachusetts finds probable cause to investigate firing of activist teacher


• Sarah Palin on war: 'Go big or go home'


• McCain nostalgic for the good old days when Bush had Iraq won


• Nostradumbass: Stephen Colbert slams Fox for saying Bush was right


• Shocking mutation and 'burn-out' scenarios revealed about escalating Ebola epidemic


• Iceland volcano update: Accelerating (Plus: Got questions? Here's your chance for answers)


• MI-Gov scandal: Snyder administration quietly canceled $98K fine for for-profit prison food vendor Aramark


• Is America starting to realize it has a police violence problem?


• Scott Walker just stabbed irony in the back


• 16 female Senators send letter to Goodell asking for zero-tolerance for violence against women


• 35 Democrats join House GOP to weaken the Clean Water Act


• Amazing kid runs marathons all over the globe, donates funds raised to clothe children in need


• Chick-fil-A demotes woman after she took time off for a double mastectomy

AZ GOP vice-chair calls for sterilizing poor women: If you want a baby, get a job

Maryland GOP candidate: ‘Women want equality,’ Ray Rice just gave ‘some of it’ to wife

Warrantless police raid on Ky. dive bar: ‘If you’re clean, you get to go out the front door’

Fox’s ‘liberal’ Bob Beckel tells female colleague her legs are why she has a job

Colorado woman pointed rifle at kids over boy practicing the clarinet in yard

New Orleans man accused of hunting down, killing the felon who kidnapped, tortured him

James Foley’s mother ‘embarrassed and appalled’ by US government actions

NC deputy won’t be charged after leaving K-9 overnight in hot patrol car, where the dog died