Monthly Archives: December 2016

Bill O’Reilly Goes Full White Supremacist [VIDEO]

Mic.com reports: Fox News host Bill O’Reilly went on a white supremacism-laden rant Tuesday night, saying that the effort to abolish the Electoral College is an attempt by “the left” to take away power from the “white establishment.” O’Reilly went on to denounce Democrats for being “reliant on the minority vote and female voters” in their electoral coalition. “The left …

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SWAMP THINGS: Net Worth Of Trump And His Cabinet Now Greater Than The GDP Of 70 Small Countries

The Boston Globe reports: President-elect Donald Trump boasted about his wealth during his campaign. Now he’s surrounding himself with people who have similarly unimaginable riches. Collectively, the wealth of his Cabinet choices so far is about five times greater than President Obama’s Cabinet and about 34 times greater than the one George W. Bush led at the end of his …

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Brutal Review From Luxury Travel Group Rates Trump’s DC Hotel As Third-Worst New Hotel In The World

The Washingtonian reports: Before the Trump International Hotel opened, Donald Trump liked to brag that the business he and his family built inside the Old Post Office would be “one of the great hotels of the world.” But according to a year-end list of new luxury hotels from a travel group that specializes in high-end accommodations, it’s one of the …

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EUROPE: Multi-Nation Manhunt Launched For 24 Year-Old Tunisian Suspect In Berlin Terror Attack

The BBC reports: A manhunt is under way across Europe’s Schengen states after prosecutors identified a suspect in the lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market. A warrant was issued at midnight. Details were not given but media reports say the suspect is a Tunisian man named only as Anis A, born in 1992. His residence permit was found in …

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Seth Meyers: Tweetin’ With The Prez [VIDEO]

The Week reports: Donald Trump loves his Twitter, and in an attempt to keep track of the president-elect’s 140-character musings, Seth Meyers is launching a new segment, “Tweetin’ with the Prez.” On Tuesday’s Late Night, Meyers quipped that Trump’s Twitter feed will serve as “his version of FDR’s fireside chats, if FDR used his fireside chats to say stuff like, …

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HYPOCRISY EXPLOSION: Ted Cruz Whines That Dem Obstructionists Will Filibuster “Absolutely Everything”

Salon reports: Speaking on Monday at a conservative student organization event in Palm Beach, Florida, Sen. Ted Cruz warned that Democrats will become “obstructionists at a level we’ve never seen” under a Donald Trump administration. In what has to be a giant fit of irony, the Texas lawmaker — who single-handedly shut the government down because Democrats wouldn’t repeal their …

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Crybaby-In-Chief Cries And Cries Again

He just cannot stop: President-elect Donald Trump went on Twitter Wednesday morning to defend his Electoral College victory and explain away his popular vote loss in last month’s election. “Campaigning to win the Electoral College is much more difficult & sophisticated than the popular vote. Hillary focused on the wrong states!” Trump wrote on Twitter at about 8:15 a.m. That …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Hate Law Repeal Now In Jeopardy As State GOP Chair Screams About “Lying” Democrats

The Charlotte Observer reports: Legislators who will convene Wednesday morning are expected to take up repeal of House Bill 2, the “bathroom bill” that has rocked the state’s social and economic climate since it became law nine months ago. Charlotte City Council set the fifth special session of the year in motion on Monday with the surprise repeal of a …

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Tony Perkins: Send Me Money To Help Trump Destroy All LGBT Rights Enacted Under President Obama

Last week hate group leader Tony Perkins made national news when he declared that Trump must “ferret out” every pro-LGBT staffer in the State Department. Today he wants money to pressure Trump to destroy every pro-LGBT advance won during the Obama administration. He writes: In almost one month, Donald Trump will become the 45th President of the United States. And …

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Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump No Longer Talks About “Draining The Swamp” Because It Sounds Undignified

Politico reports: President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington of corruption, but now that he’s preparing to move into the White House, Newt Gingrich said the Manhattan billionaire is looking to distance himself from that message. “I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to …

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Swag Tuesday: Ending Anita

We have a very special Swag Tuesday today – three autographed copies of Ending Anita, our own Father Tony Adams’ recounting of how two Key West bartenders become the first couple in Florida to win a same-sex marriage lawsuit. From the book’s Amazon description: ENDING ANITA is the story of Aaron Huntsman and Lee Jones, the two gay, outspoken and …

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Kuwaiti Ambassador Denies Report That Trump Team Pressured Him Into Booking Trump’s DC Hotel

Politico reports: Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States is denying a report that he was pressured by associates of Donald Trump to host a major celebration at the president-elect’s hotel in Washington instead of its usual venue, the Four Seasons. Salem Al-Sabah said he decided to schedule Kuwait’s National Day event on Feb. 25 at the Trump hotel because he’d …

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TRAILER: Blade Runner 2049

Via Hypable: The Blade Runner sequel has been 30 years in the making, but now Harrison Ford is back as Rick Deckard, joined by Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright and Jared Leto! When Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Blade Runner about a man who hunted down android, humanoid replicas came out in 1982, it became an instant classic. The trailer shows Ryan …

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TRUMP BLOCK: Obama “Permanently” Bans Offshore Drilling Along Most Of Arctic And Atlantic Seaboard

The New York Times reports: President Obama announced on Tuesday what he called a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard as he tried to nail down an environmental legacy that cannot quickly be reversed by Donald J. Trump. Mr. Obama invoked an obscure provision of a 1953 law, …

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Listerine Shown Effective Against Oral Gonorrhea

Via STAT: Gargling with Listerine can eliminate gonorrhea throat infection, scientists reported on Tuesday in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. Scientists led by Dr. Eric Chow of the Melbourne Sexual Health Center ran two experiments. First they added Listerine Cool Mint or Total Care to lab dishes full of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. Undiluted, both flavors left zero bacteria alive in …

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Trump Spawn Sell Inauguration Access To Daddy For Up To $1 Million, Money Goes To Unnamed “Charities”

Uday and Qusay have yet another grifting racket. Via Mediaite: Donald Trump‘s adult sons are apparently behind a new nonprofit organization that’s offering access to the president elect – if you’re willing to pay up. The Center for Public Integrity reports that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are board members for the Texas-based Opening Day Foundation, which will be …

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FINAL: Hillary Wins Popular Vote By Almost 3 Million

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by just under 3 million votes, final state vote totals aggregated by the Cook Report revealed on Tuesday. The political news outlet, which has been tracking the votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, found Clinton with 65.8 million votes and 48.2 percent, compared to 62.9 million and …

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ALABAMA: Christian Groups File Briefs Defending Roy Moore, Say Obergefell Ruling Cannot Be Enforced

Via press release from the Liberty Counsel: Four amicus briefs have been filed on behalf of Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was given an unprecedented judicial suspension when the Court of the Judiciary (COJ) unlawfully suspended him on September 30 for the remainder of his term, which runs through January 2019. The first brief is from a group of eight …

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Trump Advisor Anthony Scaramucci: Don’t Take Trump’s Words Literally, Take Him Symbolically [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Take Donald Trump seriously but not literally — or better yet, take him symbolically, a member of the president-elect’s transition executive committee advised Tuesday. “No, no, no, no, don’t take him literally, take him symbolically,” Anthony Scaramucci told MSNBC. “See, it’s different.” Scaramucci suggested that Trump has pushed back his news conference from Dec. 15 because “he’s a …

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Benham Brothers: HB2’s Repeal Is A Total “Political Shakedown” Aimed At Persecuting Christians [VIDEO]

The crackpot Benham brothers, hateful spawn of spittle-flecked raging lunatic preacher Flip Benham, played a big role in promoting North Carolina’s HB2. Therefore they are EVER so pissed that it will likely be repealed tomorrow. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: In a video uploaded to their Facebook page today, the brothers warned that the move to repeal the …

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