Irony Alert!
Jan 9: The EPA announces that there should be new standards in West Virginia for coal. West Virginia politicians hold a press conferences to say that they are not needed.
Jan 10: West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin calls for a state of emergency after coal industry dumps toxic chemicals into drinking water.
Not making this up.
Oh yeah? Well, we don’t care what you think!
When the governor of Utah announced that he wouldn’t allow his state to recognize those marriages that were performed after a federal judge ruled them legal (but before they were placed on hold pending an appeal), those of us who are in favor of basic human rights sighed. 
How can people be so mean? How does it hurt Utah in the slightest for some of its citizens to proclaim their love? I never have understood the mean-spirited nature of those against gay marriage.
So it was a great pleasure to see today that United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced that all of those marriages would be recognized by the Federal government. “I am confirming today that, for purposes of federal law, these marriages will be recognized as lawful and considered eligible for all relevant federal benefits on the same terms as other same-sex marriages,” Holder said. “These families should not be asked to endure uncertainty regarding their status as the litigation unfolds.”
Ha! Take that!
It’s not a complete win, but it shows who is on the side of justice.
Governor Chris Christie has found who is responsible for the political closing of the George Washington Bridge, which stranded thousands of people and held up police and emergency vehicles: It’s Anybody But Him.
“Not it!” he said at the press conference today. “Oh, sure, I hired all these people, some of whom were completely unqualified for their jobs. But you can’t hold me responsible for the things done by people who directly answered to me, can you?”
I mean, what did people expect him to do? Investigate it once it came to his attention? Look into it in some way and punish those involved? No, certainly, everyone clearly would rather that the media do the job, through sources and emails and phone calls and lots of investigations. Why should a Governor have to, you know, walk down the hall and ask someone?
No, what people expect from the Governor is to laugh it off and sarcastically say, “Unbeknownst to anyone, I was working the cones” as if this was not a serious thing that placed people’s lives in danger.
Hey, you never know. Maybe in a few years, working the cones will be his next job.
The thing about being a political commentator and being a TV weather reporter is that both can be wrong 50% of the time and yet still keep their jobs.
The difference is that the weather people are trying to be as accurate as possible. 
Political reporters don’t always care.
Mostly this is because some political reporters are in reality propagandists. They have no interest in the truth; getting people to agree with their already decided-upon conclusions outweighs any desire for accuracy or even honesty. The ends justifies the means.
Rush Limbaugh is the Poster Boy for this. Like many of his pals in the right-wing media collective, he has no qualifications for the position whatsoever other than a loud mouth and a desire to never do any research. His latest lie is that the “Polar Vortex” is another one of them there liberal conspiracies out to convince people of climate change.
So it’s nice to see Al Roker — someone who, unlike Limbaugh, is actually qualified to talk about climate — aim for facts. (You remember facts? They used to help convince people of the truth.)
On the Today show, he literally told Limbaugh and all the doubters to “stuff it.” Roker pulled out his old college textbook ‘The AMS Glossary of Meteorology’ from 1959 which used the term. “Rush Limbaugh claims the Polar Vortex is a creation of a left-wing, liberal media conspiracy,” he tweeted. “It’s Meteorology 101. No political agenda.”
And that’s the silly thing — that this is a political issue at all. It isn’t, and it shouldn’t be, any more than evolution should be a political issue.
“The good thing about science,” says Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, “is that it’s true whether you believe it or not.”
“This is a democracy!” cried the religious person on the Fox News interview. He then went on to explain that since 90% of the population agrees with him that therefore it was OK for them to force their religion on the other 10%. 
Yeah, you know that 1st Amendment? It only applies to the majority view.
Ah. This is apparently a new definition of democracy for which I was unaware.
The discussion was about a bunch of Satanists who are demanding equal time in Oklahoma. The Christians placed a Ten Commandments display on public property. The Constitution demands that the government take no preference concerning religion. Therefore, the Satanists get to put up their silly goat-head statue.
Many religious people, of course, are only in favor of freedom of religion when it’s their own religion. In a recent debate on Fox News, they tried their best to deny the 1st Amendment applied. David Silverman, head of American Atheists (and a friend of mine), tried to point out that the law demands that you allow them to place their own displays. And then he had to once more clarify to the idiots that atheism is not Satanism. “They’re all bunk to me,” he said.
There is a very, very simple solution to all of this. Simply get your religious statue off of government property. Then they don’t have to give “equal time” to Hindus and Satanists and Atheists and Pastafastarians.
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