MORE THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

NASTY STATEMENTS

Ultra-conservative dog whistler Ann Coulter once said on a talk show, " Our party has blacks too, but our blacks are better than their blacks."

On another talk show, Ann Coulter remarked " As Christians we love the Jews, we just want them to be perfected."

CHINESE DUMPED STEEL

"Dumped and subsidized imported steel from China has tripled from 750,000 tons in 2006 to 2.2 million tons in 2008 and have continued increasing in the first quarter 2009," said Rob Simon, vice president and general manager of Evraz Inc.'s Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, Pueblo, Colo.  "These imports significantly undersold U.S. producers and have created a huge inventory buildup in the U.S. market."

DRUGGED DRIVING STATISTICS IN COLORADO

In 2012, the Colorado Department of Human Services collected 23,519 drug and alcohol evaluations. Of the total evaluations, 1,045, or nearly 5 percent, involved marijuana.  Also in 2012, there were 87 fatalities involving a drugged driver, and 35 of the 286 drivers tested for drugs had cannabis only in their system. Click here for more drugged driving statistics.

In the Columbus Dispatch April 15th, 2015, a letter to the editor complained of 650 DUI citations involving marijuana in Colorado in 2014. 

In other words the incidence of DUI citations has gone DOWN since the legalization of marijuana in Colorado !

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

President Obama's first job was with a Catholic Church Social Justice Organization.

Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden is the only Second Lady in history to have a paying job while serving the country.

There is no such thing as an " Obamaphone " The phones are sponsored by the telephone industry and subsidized by the Federal Government. The program actually started in 1996.

The highest concentration of people in Welfare Dependency are in Republican led States, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, Maine, Montana, Tennessee, W. Virginia, S. Dakota, . . . Take note, 8 of the above states are RED states, and 1, Maine is purple

Contrary to Republican anti-minimum wage talking points the fast food industry is not mostly teenagers working after school !

According  to the National Employment Law Project, the average age of fast-food workers is 29. Forty percent are 25 or older, 31 percent have at least attempted college; more than 26 percent are parents raising children. Union organizers say that one-third to one-half of them have more than one

job.

Facts are facts,
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COWARD CRUZ

Today as the Senate was to vote on the confirmation of Loretta Lynch to be the Attorney General of the United States, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, made a fool of himself (again) by mentioning the many highly ignorant hypotheticals he posed to Ms. Lynch during her nomination hearing. He posited that since she refused to answer his ignorant hypotheticals that she proved somehow that she intended to approve of President Obamas "lawlessness" as he calls it. 

If all that is not egregious enough, he then decided not to vote today. That's not a yes and not a no !

Sen. Cruz did not have the guts to go on the record with a NO vote. COWARDLY !

I am flummoxed----

ED

REPUBLICAN PLAN TO REPLACE THE ACA IS LUDICROUS

This excerpt from the L.A. Times by Noam N. Levy explains how the Republicans would replace the Affordable Care Act with, you guessed it, the Affordable Care Act !

"The Republican outline would ban insurance companies from imposing lifetime limits on coverage, allow young adults up to age 26 to remain on their parents' health plans, and create a system of tax subsidies to help Americans buy coverage. All are pillars of the current law.

Like the current law, the proposal includes a system for penalizing people who don't have health insurance, although the mechanism is different than the current tax penalty.

And the Republican plan, like the current law, relies on cuts in Medicare spending and a new tax on employer-provided health plans with particularly rich benefits."

The mind reels, the little cogs turn, nothing meshes, they smile,

And I just move on !

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