Weird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria #157

85 Richest People Are As Wealthy As Poorest Half Of World
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world

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• An UNARMED cafeteria worker stopped yesterday's school shooter.


• Houston mayor's daughter initially refused driver's license because she has two moms


• Drunk homophobe taken down and arrested at DFW airport after altercation with (possibly) gay man


• Early voting report: Florida and North Carolina Democrats seeing what they need


• "Where is the Surgeon General?" -- New England Journal of Medicine


• Des Moines Register calls Ernst out for her support of "personhood" bill in blistering editorial


• Could this be why Joni Ernst is afraid of the Iowa press?


• Cartoon: Ebola Buddy


• Rep. Chaffetz demands surgeon general head Ebola efforts. Thanks to Republicans, there isn't one.


• McConnell boasts of efforts to privatize Social Security


• Lawsuit over allegedly unprocessed voter registrations in Georgia being heard in Atlanta court


• Scott Walker and the Republican Governor's Association are afraid, very afraid


• Hispanic man deliveries absentee ballots in Arizona: Conservatives demand he be killed


• The official Michael Brown autopsy report doesn't say what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says it does


• The science of Fox News: Why its viewers are the most misinformed

• Rick Scott sends white supports to harass black voters


• MUST SEE: Bill Maher asks what's the matter with Kansas


• Trickle up: Major corporations losing money out the wazoo


• Looking for union-made candy on Halloween? Here's a list.


• Worse than those Boy Scouts that tipped over a rock


• Silicon Valley company busted for paying Indian workers $1.21 an hour in America


• Weekend nutpick-a-palooza: Was the world created 6,000 years ago?


• New blistering ad against Mitch McConnell


• America's dumbest Congressman says gays getting massages in the Army will lead to terrorism


• Sam Wang has Dems back up to 50% chance of holding Senate, Nate Silver shows Dem chances improving


• Hispanic man deliveries absentee ballots in Arizona: Conservatives demand he be killed


• The official Michael Brown autopsy report doesn't say what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says it does

• Cartoon: Other dangerous epidemics


• Chuck Todd's journalistic fail comes back to bite him


• Major Kentucky newspapers wholeheartedly endorse Grimes for Senate


• Colorado station busts Megyn Kelly for outright lying; Fox News offers no correction


• Sao Paulo, Brazil: See the future world of global warming


• Is Mary Burke leading Scott Walker in Wisconsin? Recent history says yes


• Texas TV news bias against Wendy Davis in full vogue


• The 11 top lies of Mitch McConnell


• Cuomo caves on quarantine


• When will the American people finally get fed up with the media hyped right-wing fearmongering?


• I'm 59 and I voted for the first time last week


• What's the matter with North Carolina?


• Disqualified


• Map of poll closing times in all 50 states

• Scott Brown locks up key dead New Hampshire Republican endorsement


• This is going to hurt: Tax exempt status of Wisconsin Club for Growth challenged


• Chuck Todd says Ernst's support of 'personhood' is about protecting 'unborn human beings'


• Oops. John Boehner appears to have forgotten to file his lawsuit to stop Obama's dictatorship


• Scott Walker starts pointing fingers


• Voters could raise the minimum wage in four heavily GOP states next week


• This is how Fox News uses graphics to convey their racist message


• Kansas Republicans in a panic


• PHOTOS: Big protest and sit-in against voter suppression at Georgia Secretary of State's office: Eight arrested


• Hating Obama is more important than making sense


• How one Canadian town dealt with Islamaphobia


• 12 reasons why cats aren't Republican


• The RNC is out with a new ad that wants America to wet its pants


• The definitive discography of police protest songs with videos and lyrics


• Has Tim Huelskamp given away his seat in Congress? Democrat leads by SEVEN in bright red Kansas


• Mitch McConnell finally confirms he wants to repeal health insurance for 500,000 Kentuckians

• Scott Walker's Palinesque word salad meltdown


• Columnist for Charleston's newspaper says Mike Brown was an 'animal' who needed to be 'put down'


• That 93-year old turned away at the polls in Texas is not the only person rejected for lacking an ID


• Chris Christie tries to bluster his way out of his massive Ebola blunder


• After legally marrying, South Carolina DMV preventing woman from getting a license in her legal name


• New Republican Ebola conspiracy theory unveiled


• Cartoon: Trust goes bust


• Mitch McConnell is so dang likable he needed to copy and paste this dog over and over to prove it


• Second poll finds Democrat Mark Begich up big in crucial Alaska Senate race


• The only time we give a damn about Africa


• On equal pay, Scott Walker is so full of it his eyes are turning brown


• In Kansas, the worst Secretary of State in the nation continues to waste taxpayer money


• North Carolina turns blue: Early voting data deep dive


• Republican attacks Democrat over where his daughter was born. Seriously, that happened.