Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is fighting against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the second spot.
Rubio scored a huge endorsement today. The governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley came out in favor of him. She also bucked front runners Donald Trump and Cruz for being too divisive.
Haley is a rising star in the Republican Party. She bucked her own party when it came to the Confederate flag. The governor faced pressure from the families of the victims killed at Emanuel AME Church and #BlackLivesMatter.
In July, the state officially removed the flag from the state grounds. The governor won praise from Democrats and Republicans for taking a
Rubio gets the approval of South Carolina's Nikki Haley.
Haley along with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) believe that Rubio can bring the Republicans together.
Jeb Bush who was hoping for Haley's endorsement was none too happy about it. Bush felt that she made a huge mistake in endorsing Rubio.
Bush has been hammering Rubio, Trump and Cruz for having no experience. He's so far trailing either in fourth place or fifth place.
Dr. Ben Carson and John Kasich are stumbling in the national polls.
Carson's last stand could be in South Carolina. If he doesn't finish strong he may eventually drop out.
Kasich's second place victory in New Hampshire was a bump that all but disappeared. He's signals he'll carry the contest to Super Tuesday, Ohio and Florida.
The country's most nastiest agitator went to social media to blast Haley. The ignorant woman thinks that American-born Nikki Haley is an immigrant.
Hey South Carolina! The woman who ripped down your Confederate symbols & demands no pause in Muslim immigration just endorsed Mario Rubio.
President Barack Obama meets with members of the Supreme Court. Conservatives are outraged over the president skipping the funeral of conservative justice Antonin Scalia.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will head to the Supreme Court to pay their respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. His body will be in a casket in the rotunda of the Court.
But what got the conservatives screaming bloody murder is the fact that the president won't attend the funeral of Scalia. The White House confirms that Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will be there in attendance.
So of course, we hear from the right complaining that the president doesn't give two fucks about Scalia and conspiracy theories about him secretly trying to kill him.
Conservatives think that the president has no class since he won't show up to pay his respects to the late Justice. It doesn't matter what the president does, conservatives will bitch about it.
Obama is going to nominate a person to fill the Court. Republicans are signalling a fight. This is going to be a tough road ahead for the Republicans. The Republicans are in a no win situation.
They know that they have the right to delay or block a nominee. But given the Court's major cases, if the decisions sway 4-4, then the Court can kick it back down to the lower courts therefore holding decisions.
The junk food media confronted Obama on his threats of filibustering Samuel Alito. Then a senator, Obama was supporting then senator John Kerry's filibuster on Alito because they believe that his policies could impact the country. Alito, was nominated by George W. Bush in 2005 was confirmed by the senate in a party line vote 52-48. He took office in January 2006 is a justice for 10 years now.
Obama regrets his actions and noted that his politics did get in the way. To this day, Alito and Obama do share some bad blood. When the decision on Citizens United came in favor of the conservatives, Obama blasted the Court. Alito was filmed shaking his head and muttering "no way".
Alito, Scalia and Clarence Thomas have skipped the State of the Union since 2010.
In Nevada, Hillary Clinton mocks Republicans by barking like a dog. It became a meme.
Republicans fear Hillary Clinton more than Bernie Sanders. For the time being, they're focus solely on her. They seriously believe that if they can weaken her with Benghazi, her emails, the competitive race against Sanders, Bill Clinton's confirmed and alleged affairs, they could seize the White House.
Republicans are still infighting over the potential threat of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz becoming the nominee. The Republicans hate Obama more than Clinton and more than Trump or Cruz.
A woman who is principled, Clinton isn't afraid of Sanders or the Republicans and their allies in the conservative media. She knew the moment she would announce her bid for president, they would throw the kitchen sink and garage at her.
But some of the stuff is beginning to stick. Clinton's inability to inspire Democrats could pose a problem.
Conservatives are attacking Hillary Clinton after she made a comment about how Republicans obsess with her.
She would also mock them by barking!
Conservatives are now rolling out more concern trolling and mocking of the bark.
Clinton gave the Republicans a new talking point.
The unexpected moment occurred while Clinton was telling a story about fact-checking Republicans, whom she accused of twisting the truth about the Great Recession. Clinton explained that it reminded her of an old radio ad she liked in Arkansas where a dog would bark every time a candidate said something that wasn’t true.
“The dog was barking on the radio and so people were barking at each other for days after that,” Clinton said. "I want to figure out how we can do that with Republicans.”
Clinton went on to say that she wished every time Republicans said things like, "'Oh, the Great Recession was caused by too much regulation,'" she had a dog to bark at them.
And that's when the dog impression occurred.
"Arh, arh, arh, arh!" she said in a high-pitched tone. "You know?"
She added: "I think we could cut right through a lot of their claims."
The Life of Pablo will likely score the number one spot. The album was released on Sunday by the controversial celebrity agitator/rapper/producer Kanye West.
Kanye who already celebrating his platinum selling album is getting hammered by the junk food media for his diss on rival Taylor Swift. At the Grammy's Taylor fired back at Kanye after he said on his album that this "bitch owed her career to him". Kanye's album must be in-demand because people are taking advantage of buying the album. It may be one of the best albums of the year.
It took over three years of work and retooling. The album received praise and criticism.
It also attracted some major bootlegging.
The downloading torrents have already premiered the release. And many of Yeezy's fans already copped it offline instead of through his exclusively signed deal through Tidal.
Apparently not everyone is interested in paying $9.99 a month just to get access to The Life of Pablo, because TorrentFreak reports that an estimated half-million people had already illegally downloaded a copy of the album via BitTorrent within a day of its release. And that's not counting those who grabbed the album via "various direct download services and hosting sites," TorrentFreak notes. At the time of its posting Tuesday, TorrentFreak saw nearly 10,000 people sharing one of the most popular Pablo torrents simultaneously, "something we haven't seen with a music release before."
Ego drives success!
Many others, who did sign up for Tidal, apparently struggled to actually obtain the album; TorrentFreak says Tidal's support desk was "flooded with complaints." The site estimates that Tidal probably got "tens of thousands of new subscribers" thanks to West's limited release, and Business Insider notes that Tidal "shot ... to the top of the app download charts" after the album's release, so it's difficult to say whether that cancels out the illegal downloads. Google searches for both Tidal and "Kanye torrent" got a huge boost after West announced his release plans for the album, Wired reports. The International Business Times notes that West also sold the album on his website, but only for a few hours Saturday.
Also the ego driven celebrity agitator said that he doesn't want White people reviewing his music.
Kanye told music publications like Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and other "white publications" not to cover him and other black artists. In a follow up tweet to that original statement, Kanye expressed how much he loved white people, but argued that white music journalists couldn’t understand "what it means to be the great grandson of ex slaves and make it this far."
You want to hear music from Kanye West, Beyonce, Lil' Wayne, Rihanna or Jay-Z. You might have to find their new stuff only on Tidal.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will likely continue to be the Majority Leader of the Senate. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) will retire as the Minority Leader putting his seat in a competitive race.
Again, I don't care for the Republicans and Democrats. They both suck. They both are out for their own. They don't understand the plight of the American people. They are invested in the special interest groups and elites that continue to pour money into their races. They will play partisan games and continue grandstanding for the sake of their federal perks.
Here's my outlook for the U.S. Senate elections. The Republicans have 54 members currently serving. They have to lose 5 seats to fall back into the minority. Some of the seats are in states that President Barack Obama carried in the 2012 election.
With the pending fight in the nomination of a Supreme Court justice, most Republicans stand firm in opposing a choice to replace Antonin Scalia. Some of the Republicans are polling somewhat well to somewhat bad in their respective states. They know the risk of being inept in their home states.
Republicans will have to protect Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Illinois and New Hampshire. These seats are considered TOSS UP. These seats are competitive but it could also put risk on usually safe seats such as Arizona, Indiana, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. This would be a challenge for Republicans.
With the job approval of Congress at record lows, it's not easy for Republicans to bring up the failures of Obama when they're the ones also in power. But don't think it's an easy road for the Democrats. It's going to be a tough fight for Democrats to win back the trust of the American people.
Democrats have to fight for seats in states like Nevada, Colorado and Maryland. I conclude these states as TOSS UP. It's likely going to be a hard road for the Dems to recapture the Senate.
Depending on who becomes the nominee, I have pegged the candidates and how I believe that Republicans will continue to hold on to the majority of the senate. The odds are 52 - 48.
Alaska - Lisa Murkowski (RUNNING) (SAFE)
Hawaii - Brian Schantz (RUNNING) (SAFE)
Washington - Patty Murray (RUNNING) (SAFE)
Oregon - Ron Wyden (RUNNING) (LIKELY DEMOCRAT)
California - Barbara Boxer (RETIRING) (LIKELY DEMOCRAT)
Colorado - Michael Bennet (RUNNING) (TOSS UP) (ODDS: REPUBLICAN)
Idaho - Mike Crapo (RUNNING) (SAFE)
Nevada - Harry Reid (RETIRING) (TOSS UP) (ODDS: REPUBLICAN)
Utah - Mike Lee (RUNNING) (SAFE)
Arizona - John McCain (RUNNING) (LEANS REPUBLICAN)
North Dakota - Jim Hoeven (RUNNING) (LIKELY REPUBLICAN)
The Morning In America by Marco Rubio was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is such a dork.
Desperately trying to win the Republican presidential nomination, he tries to channel his inner Ronald Reagan by making his version of Morning in America. He would have a calm voice narrator cover the political ad blasting President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In the first scene you see a skyline of a major city with tugboats cruising across the waterway.
The skyline is not an American city. It's actually Vancouver, Canada. To make it even more noticeable, they zoomed in on the flag aside the tugboat showing the Canadian flag.
Okay, the Rubio campaign said that it's not the video, it's the message. He's trying to make the point that Obama's policies hurt America.
Those pseudo-patriots will say that the Canadian city in the video will always be a distraction.
Pathetic. Marco Rubio got stuck with the robotic claim.
Rubio hired the company to produce the video and used stock footage of Vancouver, Washington, DC, San Francisco and New York City for the video.
If it wasn't for Buzzfeed once again taking the time to cover the goofs and gaffes of the political candidates, Rubio would have gotten away with it.
Even the Canadian junk food media mocking Rubio.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn't spoken on the video but he probably appreciates Rubio's shout out to his country.
Vancouver is the eighth largest city in Canada. It's located in British Columbia on the west coast. It's population of 605,000. The vicinity covers 2.4 million residents. It's 35 miles from the U.S.-Canadian border.
Vancouver gives tax breaks to American and Canadian filmmakers. Many shows such as The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl (DC comics) are filmed in the city.
Some of American television shows and movies are filmed in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is bring out his brother.
Mr. 43, himself, George Walker Bush.
The campaign trail is getting a little rockier for the former Florida governor. Bush is hoping to cash in on his brother's popularity in the deeply conservative state.
The Bush family is in South Carolina in a last ditch effort to score a win. They're touting the narrative that "Trump is a reality television star" while the Bush family "kept America safe".
As you know, George W. Bush is relatively unpopular among many in the nation. He left the country in such disarray and to this day never apologized for his actions. Bush gave America, Barack Obama.
After winning two terms, Obama managed to proceed over the most partisan Congress to ever exist.
Republicans forgotten that 9/11 happened under George W. Bush's watch. They forgotten that Bush is responsible for the negligent handling of Hurricane Katrina. But it's the Democrats fault right!
Republicans made it top priority to defeat him as best as they could. They figure that its fiction that Obama's impact helped the economy. They believe that the numbers are fixed when it comes unemployment. The Republicans believe that a united front in creating stability in the Middle East is betraying Israel. Republicans are fearing that Obama picking a potential Supreme Court justice nominee could swing the court away from its conservative slant.
The Republicans are cautious about addressing the obvious. They'll scapegoat Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as the blame for the nation's woes.
Now that the partisan bar shifted from terrorism to the potential swing of the Supreme Court, Bush is hoping that his brother's legacy of appointing John Roberts and Samuel Alito could bring conservatives back to their senses.
Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are aiming at Bush. They believe that appointing Roberts as the Chief Justice was a big mistake. Trump aimed at Cruz for backing him. Cruz aimed at Trump for supporting the liberal justices in some issues.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a failed presidential candidate. He went ahead and endorse Bush for president.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for president.
Here's the video of the Brothers Bush with the most annoying conservative agitator Sean Hannity.
Hannity is one of the biggest ass kissing shrills for Republicans. He constantly bitches about Obama's policies and Bush doing his best to "keep America safe".
Former pop singer Denise "Vanity" Matthews passed away.
A bit of sad news happened to hit the junk food media. Singer/actress Denise Matthews best known as Vanity passed away in California after fighting sclerosis. That along with peritonitis and kidney disease was the contributing factors to her death.
Prince groomed this young Canadian singer named Denise Matthews. She would call herself Vanity and help build a group. The group Vanity 6 recorded their only album by the same name. The album is credited for the successful singles "Nasty Girl" and "Drive Me Wild".
Vanity would end up going solo. She end up releasing the albums Wild Animal and Skin on Skin with the hits "Pretty Mess", "Mechanical Emotion" and "Under the Influence".
Vanity would also take up a gig in acting. She appeared in the movies The Last Dragon, 52 Pick-Up and Action Jackson.
During her rise, she fell victim to the "Rock Star Lifestyle". She was addicted to crack cocaine and heroin. She would end up having kidney failure and for the remainder of her life she would undergo peritoneal dialysis five times a day.
She had dated Prince, Adam Ant and Bill Idol. She also was engaged to Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue.
She had a brief marriage to Anthony Smith of the Oakland Raiders. That marriage ended after he got caught up in a murder. Smith is serving LIFE in the iron college.
After a night of binging on crack cocaine, she suffered a nearly fatal renal failure.
That near death experience made her realize that her life was spiraling out of control. In the late 1990s, she would end up becoming a born-again Christian and gave up her Hollywood and music career.
She would become a Christian motivational speaker and renounced the name of Vanity.
Vanity was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. She was born of Polish, Jewish, German, African American, Hawaiian and Native American ancestry.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Denise "Vanity" Matthews.
Congratulations to Kendrick Lamar on snatching five Grammy's. Also he took home the best rap album at the 58th Grammy Awards.
To Pimp a Butterfly is the best rap album. No question.
It received a nomination for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album at the 58th Grammy Awards. Its singles "i" and "Alright" both won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
The song "Alright" earned nominations for Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song, its visuals for Best Music Video and "These Walls" received a nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
To Pimp a Butterfly was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
By January 2016, the album had sold 788,000 copies in the United States.
Performing Bad Blood from 1989 album.
Congratulations to Taylor Swift for winning the night as well. And also managing to fry the ego maniacal rapper/rap producer/celebrity agitator Kanye West.
She scored a huge win for her album 1989.
Taylor Swift won the Best Album of the Year award and she clapped back at Kanye West after he went into his diva mode. West made the remarks that he created Taylor's career. He promoted that line in his Life of Pablo album. The album was released last week. The two are back feuding again.
I managed to catch the last few minutes of the Grammy Awards. I normally hate watching award shows because I believe these things are boring.
Also Meghan Trainor, The Weeknd, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, D'Angelo and many others took home a Grammy. Also former president Jimmy Carter took home a Grammy as well.
Congratulations to them all for their hard work.
World News Today also send our condolences to the family of DJ Big Kap. The rap pioneer passed away on February 3rd, 2016. I just found out about his death.
Another woman! Could President Barack Obama pick Attorney General Loretta Lynch to become the next Associate Justice of The Supreme Court?
The news today is the president won't exercise a recess appointment to the Supreme Court.
The president warned Republicans that he will take measures necessary to get a nominee confirmed to the Supreme Court. In due time, the president will pick a potential candidate who will face an uphill battle in the U.S. Senate.
The first African American woman could be nominated to replace the late Antonin Scalia. Some legal analysis signal that the president could choose his Attorney General as the potential nominee for the Supreme Court.
Loretta Lynch, the current Attorney General is floated around in the media. She was the first Attorney General in U.S. history to have a unprecedented hold on her confirmation. It took over 104 days before the Senate confirmed her with the slimmest of votes.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), then Majority Leader warned Republicans that the "nuclear option" will happen if they continue to stall the president's nominees.
The SCOTUS blog signaled that Lynch is a "very serious choice" for the Court.
Many in the junk food media speculate who's going to be the pick for the Supreme Court. We have no clear name in the listing. But rest assured, the Republicans are adamant against any nominee President Barack Obama picks.
Married woman posted on social media that she was single. She was trying to bait singles into supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Although she didn't steal information from the singles, her actions are examples of what the FBI warns about online dating.
I've said it time after time, love is complicated. It's hard for some to find the right one. I've took to posting a long rant about dating and social media. I've dated some of the worst of the worst on social media dating websites.
I won't mention their names. I wish them well.
Well once again, it's Valentine's Day and a lot of single Americans are hoping to find the right one.
Some are finding it harder to settle down.
I am almost certain to give up on relationships. I am so tired of wasting my time dating women who take advantage of me. I am the dreaded "NICE GUY" who will end up always in the "FRIEND ZONE".
I am not looking for the "FRIEND ZONE" and I am not looking for the "HIT IT AND QUIT IT".
But I am certainly willing to place my bets on millions of singles rushing into relationships. The social media websites that attract singles, OKCupid, eHarmony, POF, Badoo, Tinder, Coffee Meets Bagel, Match.com, MeetMe and Christian Mingle see a spike around the week of Valentine's Day.
The nice guy is always assured heartbreak.
Of course, scammers are seeking the opportunity as well.
Did you know that two Bernie Sanders supporters created profiles to lure men into supporting the Democratic candidate's campaign?
Two women were banned from Tinder because they were swiping right on guys who were interested in them. When conversation began, the first thing came up was Bernie Sanders. The Sanders campaign denounced the women and told supporters to not deceive people.
Haley Lent and Robyn Gedrich were banned from the social media website after they played games.
This woman who posed as a single tried to bait singles into supporting presidential candidates.
They were participating in a "political spamming" scam. They intentionally were trying to fool men into relationships only to encourage them to support Sanders.
Of course, they didn't follow the rules of the website and they have since apologized for their behavior (of course the death threats also came too).
These two were examples of what the FBI warns about online dating. The FBI released a bulletin about the dangers of online dating.
Tinder "match" looks like a model.
These criminals—who also troll social media sites and chat rooms in search of romantic victims—usually claim to be Americans traveling or working abroad. In reality, they often live overseas. Their most common targets are women over 40 who are divorced, widowed, and/or disabled, but every age group and demographic is at risk.
Here’s how the scam usually works. You’re contacted online by someone who appears interested in you. He or she may have a profile you can read or a picture that is e-mailed to you. For weeks, even months, you may chat back and forth with one another, forming a connection. You may even be sent flowers or other gifts. But ultimately, it’s going to happen—your new-found “friend” is going to ask you for money.
So you send money...but rest assured the requests won’t stop there. There will be more hardships that only you can help alleviate with your financial gifts. He may also send you checks to cash since he’s out of the country and can’t cash them himself, or he may ask you to forward him a package.
So what really happened? You were targeted by criminals, probably based on personal information you uploaded on dating or social media sites. The pictures you were sent were most likely phony lifted from other websites. The profiles were fake as well, carefully crafted to match your interests.
Tinder "match" wants you to Kik it with them.
In addition to losing your money to someone who had no intention of ever visiting you, you may also have unknowingly taken part in a money laundering scheme by cashing phony checks and sending the money overseas and by shipping stolen merchandise (the forwarded package).
In another recently reported dating extortion scam, victims usually met someone on an online dating site and then were asked to move the conversation to a particular social networking site, where the talk often turned intimate. Victims were later sent a link to a website where those conversations were posted, along with photos, their phone numbers, and claims that they were “cheaters.” In order to have that information removed, victims were told they could make a $99 payment—but there is no indication that the other side of the bargain was upheld.
While the FBI and other federal partners work some of these cases—in particular those with a large number of victims or large dollar losses and/or those involving organized criminal groups—many are investigated by local and state authorities.
We strongly recommend, however, that if you think you’ve been victimized by a dating scam or any other online scam, file a complaint with our Internet Crime Complaint Center (www.ic3.gov).
Before forwarding the complaints to the appropriate agencies, IC3 collates and analyzes the data—looking for common threads that could link complaints together and help identify the culprits. This helps keep everyone safe.
Here are some tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of an online dating scam. Recognizing an Online Dating Scam Artist
Your online “date” may only be interested in your money if he or she:
Presses you to leave the dating website you met through and to communicate using personal e-mail or instant messaging;
Professes instant feelings of love;
Sends you a photograph of himself or herself that looks like something from a glamour magazine;
Claims to be from the U.S. and is traveling or working overseas;
Makes plans to visit you but is then unable to do so because of a tragic event; or
Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).
One way to steer clear of these criminals all together is to stick to online dating websites with nationally known reputations.
Republicans threaten government shutdown over Obama's pick to replace Antonin Scalia.
The right is scrambling for an offense. The sudden death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has become a political football. The conservative justice died in Texas yesterday leaving the Supreme Court in limbo. Republicans are demanding the president hold back. They don't want him to nominate a justice. They rather have a new president take control of the situation.
President Barack Obama said that he will nominate a person to fill the position. Republicans are signaling a fight in the Senate.
Once again the Republicans threaten to shut down the government because they fear the wrath of elites and conservative agitators in the junk food media.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are threatening filibuster if Obama nominate anyone to the Supreme Court.
Check it, the Republican Party got to booing John Dickerson when he corrected Cruz at the debate.
Cruz boldly said that Ronald Reagan appointed his third justice, Anthony Kennedy in 1987. It was true that he appointed the nominee, but the fact it was 1988 when he was confirmed. It was confirmed during an election year. Cruz was dishonest in that point.
President Barack Obama is going forth to pick a nominee. And he dares Republicans to stop him.
Cruz did pause and stare down Dickerson which led to the audience booing. Yes, Cruz told something that was false but it didn't stop him from making his platitude speech.
This is a lose/lose for the Republicans. The Supreme Court decisions that conservatives favor could be in jeopardy of being struck down.
The president may nominate a moderate.
The Republicans can stall a nominee but it will backfire. The Democrats will sabotage the Republican if he makes it to the White House.
This game is getting old.
Republicans are proving themselves to be quite inept.
If Donald Trump or Ted Cruz should become the Republican nominee, the party could face a bitter defeat. I know that the moderates and non-partisan Republicans are going to sour on the two bombastic candidates.
