Saturday, December 21, 2013

#ISTANDWITHPHIL 100's of Thousands Sign Petition and Stand With Freedom of Speech.

PETITION TO THE A&E NETWORK DEMANDING THE IMMEDIATE REINSTATEMENT OF DUCK DYNASTY’S PHIL ROBERTSON — #ISTANDWITHPHIL

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Dear A&E Network,
I am writing to you regarding your network's intolerant, discriminatory, and punitive treatment of Mr. Phil Robertson, star of A&E's #1 hit show, Duck Dynasty.
Mr. Robertson’s comments in GQ Magazine are simply reflective of a Biblical view of sexuality, marriage, and family – a view that has stood the test of time for thousands of years and continues to be held by the majority of Americans and today’s world as a whole.
Many members of the LGBT community may not agree with this view, but the notion that a free-thinking American should be discriminated against simply for expressing a perspective that is in conflict with another is patently un-American and flies in the face of true tolerance and civility. A&E's position, which in your own words is “championing” the gay and lesbian community — which I believe you have the freedom to do — excludes the views of Faith Driven Consumers and effectively censors a legitimate viewpoint held by the majority of Americans.
As a Faith Driven Consumer, I am signing this petition to demand that my views be treated with equality and respect in America’s rich rainbow of diversity.
I am asking your network to immediately reinstate Mr. Robertson to Duck Dynasty, and to formally apologize to him, his family, and the millions of viewers who tune in every week, stand by him, and share his worldview. While the LGBT community may be offended by his opposing viewpoint, your rash, discriminatory, and unfair treatment toward Mr. Robertson — a recognized symbol of the faith community — is a slap in the face to Faith Driven Consumers and everyday Americans alike.
There are 46 million Faith Driven Consumers in America today who spend 1.75 trillion dollars annually. Should you refuse to equally respect and welcome our legitimately held views, we will gladly stop watching this and all other A&E programming and turn to any reformulation of Duck Dynasty on another network – while simultaneously supporting brands that stand with the show and the Robertson family.
Signed,
John Q. Public
#IStandwithPhil

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Dimple Boynton signed via Tennelle Boynton 1 min ago

These gay right people need to stop bending out of shape every time people disagree with their lifestyle. It’s not about you, it’s about what’s right in the sight of God. I’m sure gay peopl (show all)

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May god show those who live in glass houses not to throw the first stone. Phil keep up the good fight.

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I FULLY SUPPORT Phil’s right to Free Speech; ESPECIALLY when it comes to speaking on issues of Faith!!!!! For if you don’t have Freedom to speak your Faith, then you DON’T have Free Speech AT ALL!!!!

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Phil needs to stay!

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We will stand and support Free Speech and the Constitution of the United States of America. http://www.SickBias.com

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Our big Family is all Christians too and it make me so angry..Stand up and keep fighting and we are with you..

God loves all,but I’m sure He gets so upset with his Children. When they ignor (show all)

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As Americans we have the right to speak openly about our faith and live following our believes, and no company or government has the right to tell us to shut up!!

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"I am Second" - The Robertsons

Published on Nov 20, 2013

http://www.iamsecond.com/

Three generations. One duck related Dynasty. The Robertson family story told through the lens of Phil, Kay, Jep and Reed. From their humble beginnings and struggle in keeping their family together to a behind the scenes look into the Robertsons' continued commitment to faith, family and ducks amidst their immense success.

GOP Candidate: 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson is the Rosa Parks of our generation'

Ian Bayne, 39, is running for the 11th District of Illinois in the US House of Representatives in 2014
He is not the first conservative politician to rush to 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson's defense

A Republican candidate for Congress from Illinois says ‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch Phil Robertson is the ‘Rosa Parks of our generation.’

Ian Bayne, 39, and running for the House of Representatives seat for the 11th District of Illinois, made the comparison to Ms Parks in an official statement released Friday on his website.

Mr Bayne, from the Chicago suburb of Aurora, is running against a handful of other candidates in the 2014, according to the Daily Herald, which first flagged the remarks.

‘In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians,’ Mr Bayne said.

‘What Parks did was courageous,’ he added. ‘What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too.’
The GOP candidate’s comparison of the reality star to the famous civil rights activist came under immediate criticism.
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after the he came under fire for his racially charged remarks to GQ.
‘I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person,’ he told the magazine. ‘Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers.’
‘They’re singing and happy,’ he continued. ‘I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word.’
Mr Robertson was immediately suspended from ‘Duck Dynasty’ as several conservative politicians came to his defense.

Outspoken: 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson has ignited a firestorm with his comments to GQ

‘Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana,’ Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said in a statement. ‘The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with - I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment.’
Even more damning footage emerged Thursday of an anti-gay sermon given by the 67-year-old born-again Christian.
‘They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents and they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.'

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Though he never directly calls out homosexuals, the implications are obvious.
Fans of the show have completely bought out Walmart’s stock of ‘Duck Dynasty’ merchandise, showing that not everyone is upset with his controversial comments.
The Robertson family is currently in discussions with A&E over the future of the show.

Friday, December 20, 2013

SUPRISE Obamacare NOW FREE!!!

Breaking: XMAS Surprise everyone who wants ObamaCare is completely exempt. Obama just came out and said, sorry for the website anyone can get insurance for free if you want. '. Administration faces backlash over new ObamaCare exemptions: Original Story FOXNEWS.

ObamaCare exemptions

Published December 20, 2013

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The Obama administration, in an 11th-hour change, announced significant exemptions for people who recently lost their insurance coverage and are struggling to get a new plan -- drawing immediate criticism from the insurance industry and Republican lawmakers.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed the changes, which include letting those individuals skirt the law's individual mandate, in a letter to senators. She said she would allow people who got cancellations and could not find affordable new coverage to qualify for a "hardship exemption" in order to avoid a penalty next year for not having insurance.
Further, she announced that those individuals will be able to purchase bare-bones plans that until now were available only for people under 30.

The move, though, to allow potentially hundreds of thousands of people to sign up for "catastrophic" coverage plans was criticized by the insurance industry as a shift that would cause "tremendous instability.”

The administration, which made the announcement right before the holiday break and as President Obama prepared to fly to Hawaii for vacation, downplayed the sudden change, saying they expected it to impact fewer than 500,000 people.

Health and Human Services spokeswoman Joanne Peters said, "This is a common sense clarification of the law. For the limited number of consumers whose plans have been cancelled and are seeking coverage, this is one more option."

An insurance industry official told Fox News that while the administration was playing down the significance of the move, it could turn out to be a troublesome last minute change and the industry fears far more than the 500,000 people will apply.

Another industry official, America's Health Insurance Plans spokesman Robert Zirkelbach, said, “This type of last-minute change will cause tremendous instability in the marketplace and lead to further confusion and disruption for consumers."

Democrats praised the steps as a common-sense backup in a difficult situation while Republicans panned the administration action as another patch to an unworkable law.
"Holding a fire sale of cheap insurance is not a responsible fix for a broken program. This is a slap in the face to the thousands of Americans who have already purchased expensive insurance through the ObamaCare exchanges," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a statement.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., described the move as "another major policy shift" from the Obama administration.
"We asked Secretary Sebelius point blank what would be the next holiday surprise, and she was silent. Yet, here we are with another major policy shift. The sad reality is that when the law takes effect come January 1, more Americans will be without coverage under Obamacare than one year ago," Blackburn said in a statement released Thursday evening.
"Less than two weeks from going live, the White House seems to be in full panic mode. Rather than more White House delays, waivers, and exemptions, the administration should provide all Americans relief from its failed law."

On Thursday, the administration estimated at less than 500,000 those who have not yet found other coverage in the wake of seeing their coverage canceled.
Obama was roundly criticized for reneging on a longstanding promise that if you liked your plan, you would be able to keep it under his health care law. The president apologized, and then said insurers could extend those plans for one more year. Most state regulators followed Obama's lead and gave insurance companies the additional latitude, but it's unclear whether the problem has been fully resolved.

Insurers are concerned that healthy customers who potentially would have bought full coverage may now stay out of the market, leaving the companies with a group of patients in worse health overall.

Fox News Ed Henry and The Associated Press contributed to this report

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Peter O'Toole dies at 81 Suffered from long illness

Peter O'Toole dies at 81: Film legend and Hollywood hellraiser who shot to fame as Lawrence

of Arabia had suffered from long illness

The actor was at a London hospital when he died on Saturday. Born in Ireland, O'Toole was as well-known for his hard drinking and hell-raising lifestyle as for the stupendous talent which set the screen alight. In a statement, his daughter Kate said the family was completely overwhelmed by the outpouring of 'real love and affection' after the announcement of his death. 'In due course, there will be a memorial filled with song and good cheer, as he would have wished', she said. O'Toole is pictured, left and centre, as Lawrence of Arabia and right, with Meryl Streep after receiving an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.

The Look of Pure Evil

If this isnt the 'Devil' I dont know what it could be other than pure evil.

'Saturday Night Live' Skit Targets Obama and Selfie Mandela Funeral

You know its bad when SNL is now making jokes at you and your administration

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President Barack Obama’s appearance at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service this week was subject to a “Saturday Night Live” skit that targeted the stage’s fake interpreter and the president’s now infamous selfie.

The skit opened with an actor playing Obama delivering an address on the “series of unfortunate events” that occurred at the Mandela memorial.

“First, I got roped into taking a selfie with the blonde female Danish prime minister,” the Obama actor said. “Some people said Michelle was angry at me for that. But, I talked to her afterwards and I can assure you, she was furious.”

“Some people said Michelle was angry at me for that….she was furious.”

As “Obama” transitioned his speech to detail some “exciting” updates to the health care website, a sign language interpreter appeared behind him, offering some bizarre gestures to the audience.

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