Yeah, Democrats always tell the truth, is that it? See, this is the difference between us. When the right, or anyone in the right media, is in err, and it's pointed out, I'll admit it or call them out on it. You never do this. So which one of us is the one who relies on obfuscation again? We can go back and prove this with a search engine - me posting the times I've been critical of the right and you with the left. Of course, I've offered this challenge to you before and you've declined every time.
More "Faked!" news... Voting issues reported as Md. candidates being home stretch 2 voting machines taken out of service after incidents Published 7:50 AM EDT Oct 27, 2014 BALTIMORE —There are only eight days left before Election Day, and as more big names are expected to join Maryland's candidates for governor this week, a few problems have been reported surrounding the polls. At least three voters said their votes have been switched at the polls. A woman voting early in Frederick County reported that the touch-screen machine she used flipped her ballot from the GOP to the Democratic Party. Election officials in Frederick County told 11 News that it was a "calibration issue" and that the machine has been removed from service. 11 News has also confirmed with elections officials that the same problem happened with one machine in Anne Arundel County, but it has also since been replaced.
John Boehner Still Hasn't Sued Obama Over Obamacare. Why Not? —By Kevin Drum Mon Oct. 27, 2014 2:27 PM EDT Three months ago, John Boehner threw a bone to the tea-party faction that was nipping at his heels and demanding action against the lawless tyrant Obama and his executive orders that routinely defied both the Constitution and the duly enacted laws of the land. The bone took the form of a planned lawsuit against the administration because it had delayed certain aspects of the employer and employee mandates under Obamacare. At the time, I was perfectly OK with Boehner doing this. Why not let courts decide this kind of dispute, after all? That's what they're for. What's more, unlike most of the tea party complaints about lawless behavior, this one seemed at least defensible. And yet, three months later, we still have no lawsuit. Why? Simon Lazarus and Elisabeth Stein suspect that it has do with Boehner asking for some legal advice from the Congressional Research Service and then quietly getting a report that he wasn't expecting: CRS reports such as this one are generated in response to requests by members or committees of Congress, though the CRS does not make public the identity of the requester or requesters. This particular report — of which House Democrats were unaware until it appeared — bears the earmarks of an inquiry, requested by the Speaker or his allies, to give some color of legitimacy to their charges of rampant presidential illegality. Instead, the result validates the lawyers’ maxim not to ask a question when unsure of the likely answer. The Report offers two conclusions: First, under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), no rulemaking procedure was necessitated by the Administration’s initial one-year delay in enforcing the employer mandate, past the ACA’s prescribed January 1, 2014 effective date....Second, the Report states that, when, in February 2014, the Administration announced an additional year’s postponement of full enforcement of the mandate, until January 1, 2016, “informal rulemaking procedures” appeared to be required.In fact, as the report’s authors reference, the Administration had engaged in precisely the type of informal rulemaking process that, the report concluded, was called for. The Administration’s action finalized a September 2013 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, making adjustments in response to comments from interested parties, precisely as prescribed by the APA. In other words, having been asked whether the Obama administration had crossed all its t’s and dotted its i’s, the CRS’ answer was unequivocal: yes it had. In bland CRS-speak, this seems like a veritable finger in the eye — or perhaps, a blunt warning to the Speaker to drop the lawsuit project. Oops. This doesn't mean Boehner can't still file his lawsuit, of course. It was all pretty much symbolism and bone-tossing in the first place, so it hardly matters if he ends up losing the case a year or two from now. But it could have proven embarrassing, especially if the CRS report became public, which, inevitably, it did. This stuff never stays under wraps forever. So perhaps Boehner has decided to hold his fire. He has bigger fish to fry right now, and I doubt he was ever all that excited about the lawsuit anyway. For now, it's become just another shard on the ever-mounting bone pile of tea party outrage about a president doing stuff they don't happen to approve of.
Oh, not sore at all. But like Obama's many gaffes, this one of yours will be fun to throw out repeatedly! If anyone is sore about it, it's you! Lol, affected.
There Are 80,000 Homeless Kids in New York City October 27, 2014 | Like his predecessor, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to lower the staggering rate of homelessness in New York City. Unlike his predecessor, his strategy has not consisted of hectoring the homeless for their plight while cutting their access to housing programs. Still, the number of homeless families in New York continues to rise, especially in traditionally middle-class neighborhoods that have seen rapid growth (e.g. gentrification), as the Daily News notes. According to a report by the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness, 12,000 families are currently sleeping in shelters, including 24,000 kids. That's a 250% jump in 20 years. In reality, the city's homelessness problem is far more dire because many homeless families don't get into shelters. According to school records highlighted in the report, close to 80,000 kids have experienced homelessness in the past year. "For every child in shelter, there were roughly two additional children who were homeless and living in unstable conditions," the authors note. That could mean doubling up with another family or sleeping on the subway or in a car. "Unless something is done to address the underlying issues driving families into extreme poverty, more children will become homeless," the report concludes. While New York leads the pack in horrifyingly high rates of homelessness, cities across the country continue to see increases in the number of homeless families. A 2013 estimate by the Department of Education highlighted by the Huffington Post found an 8 percent increase in homeless students in just one year. Tana Ganeva
As outlined in the report from the NYC Coalition for the Homeless cited in the article, there are only 24,186 children in shelters and a maximum of 36,000 children homeless at any one time. The 80,000 figure includes children who were homeless at any point during the school year, not the ones who are currently homeless. It is absurd that the title and the article twists the facts to make the problem seem twice the actual size.