Barry gets a highway named after him.

President Barack H. Obama Highway Gets Its Signs

Signs have gone up naming a section of a Los Angeles-area freeway as the President Barack H. Obama Highway. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

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The signs are up, and it's official: You can now take a drive on the President Barack H. Obama Highway.

Signs were posted Thursday, renaming a section of a Los Angeles-area freeway after the 44th president of the United States, The Associated Press reported. The signs were installed along a stretch of State Route 134 that runs from the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles to Interstate 210 in Pasadena.

State lawmakers passed the measure last year in recognition of Obama's "more than two decades of dedicated public service to the citizens of the United States and the State of California," according to the resolution.

Former President Barack Obama attended Occidental College in Eagle Rock from 1979 to 1981 and lived in Pasadena. State Sen. Anthony J. Portantino, whose district includes the area, introduced the resolution in 2017. It met overwhelming support.

At the time of the resolution's passing, Portantino said he was grateful that residents in his district suggested the idea.

"[Obama's] attendance at Occidental College influenced his political trajectory and led him to become one of the most revered and respected presidents in American history," a statement from Portantino's office on the renaming reads.

The measure says "it is fitting" to designate the portion of the road in Obama's honor. 

"His story is the American story – values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others," the measure states.

My reaction exactly.

Barry gets a highway named after him.

The House Vote Makes A Great Campaign Ad

This is how much Democrats care about America's border security

Not one voted for it!

Below is how they voted.

I was taken back! It was not all good for Republicans either. How could you call yourself a Republican and vote AGAINST the wall? I highlighted the RINO'S in yellow with an asterisk. Remember them the next time you're in the voting booth.

---- NAYS    185 ---

Adams Aguilar Amash* Barragán Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Buck* Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cárdenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Crist Cuellar Cummings Curbelo (FL)* Davis (CA) DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Eshoo Espaillat Esty (CT) Evans Foster Frankel (FL) Fudge

Gabbard Gallego Garamendi Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutiérrez Heck Higgins (NY) Himes Hoyer Huffman Hurd* Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones (MI) Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kihuen Kildee Kilmer Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowey Luján, Ben Ray Lynch Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McCollum McEachin McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano

Neal Nolan Norcross O'Halleran O'Rourke Pallone Panetta Pascrell Paulsen* Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pingree Pocan Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Ros-Lehtinen* Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Scott (VA) Serrano Sewell (AL) Sherman Sires Smith (WA) Soto Speier Suozzi Takano Thompson (CA) Titus Tonko Torres Tsongas Upton* Valadao* Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters, Maxine Watson Coleman Welch Wild Wilson (FL)

---- NOT VOTING    31 ---

These dogs are just as bad if not worse. They didn't think the wall was important enough to even vote on it! In essence not voting is just as bad as a no vote.

Black* Capuano Comstock* Crowley Davis, Danny Duncan (SC)* Ellison Hanabusa Hastings Hultgren* Issa*  (You're shitting me)

Jenkins (KS)* Jones (NC)* Keating Kind Love* Lowenthal Lujan Grisham, M. Noem* (Really) Polis Richmond Rosen

Roskam* Scott, David Shea-Porter Sinema Swalwell (CA) Thompson (MS) Trott* Walz Yarmuth

These two imparticular I find mind-boggling.

Issa is not even running again!

The House Vote Makes A Great Campaign Ad

Fox News defends Tucker Carlson: We will not be 'censored' by 'intimidation efforts'

Fox News issued a defense of its hosts Tuesday, saying that it would not be “censored” by companies that are pulling advertisements from the network. 

"We cannot and will not allow voices like Tucker Carlson to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts from the likes of Moveon.org, Media Matters and Sleeping Giants," Fox said in a statement. 

These groups, comprised of left-wing advocacy organizations and progressive nonprofit groups, have all publicly condemned Carlson for his comments. Sleeping Giants specifically is an advocacy group aimed at persuading companies to pull advertising from news outlets it deems offensive. 

The Fox statement also said the groups were hypocritical for their “intolerance to all opposing points of view.” 

While companies are boycotting Fox News, the outlet would only be censored if the government was suppressing its freedom to broadcast what it wishes. 

[Related: Tucker Carlson says he’s not ‘intimidated’ after advertisers withdraw support]

Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said during his show that when the U.S. is forced to admit “the world’s poor,” it makes the country “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.”

Insurance company Pacific Life was the first company to halt its advertising relationship with the network following the comments, and at least a dozen others have pulled their slots as well, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 

IHOP, the United Explorer credit card, Just For Men, Jaguar Land Rover, Ancestry.com, and Voya Financial are among some of the corporations who have said they will stop advertising with Tucker Carlson Tonight. 

This is not the first time that Carlson has found himself at the center of controversy. Last month, radical left-wing protesters organized outside of Carlson’s family homein Washington, D.C., where they broke his door and frightened his wife, who was home alone at the time. 

“Attempts were made last month to bully and terrorize Tucker and his family at their home. He is now once again being threatened via Twitter by far left activist groups with deeply political motives,” the Fox statement said.

Fox News defends Tucker Carlson: We will not be 'censored' by 'intimidation efforts'

It figures

Writer touted by CNN as 'Journalist of the Year' forced to resign for fabricating stories

Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, admitted to fabricating parts of at least 14 stories following the magazine’s investigation. The publication said the issue “marks a low point in the 70-year history of Der Spiegel.”

The German magazine Der Spiegel revealed Wednesday that one of its top award-winning journalists fabricated many of his articles, inventing characters, sources, and their quotes “on a grand scale” for many years.

Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, admitted to fabricating parts of at least 14 stories following the magazine’s internal investigation. The publication said the issue “marks a low point in the 70-year history of Der Spiegel.”

“I am sick and I need to get help.”— Claas Relotius, former CNN Journalist of the Year

The reporter contributed around 60 articles to Der Spiegel, one of the leading German magazines for investigative reporting. He previously worked for other publications in Europe and won awards such as CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014.

The fabricated articles include a phone interview with the parents of free agent NFL player Colin Kaepernick and a story about an American woman who claims to have volunteered to witness the executions of death row inmates.

Relotius also drew the fury of locals in Fergus Falls, Minn., after spending three weeks in town and fabricating facts, characters and quotes from people in an effort to portray the town in a negative light.

“What happened is beyond what I could have ever imagined: An article titled ‘Where they pray for Trump on Sundays,’ and endless pages of an insulting, if not hilarious, excuse for journalism,” wrote Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn who investigated Relotius’ Der Spiegel article about the town.

Both Anderson and Krohn went on to reveal that the article doesn’t contain any truth except for the town’s population, the average temperature, and names of the businesses or public figures.

Nearly everything else, including a coal plant employee named Neil Becker, who doesn’t actually exist, or quotes from a restaurant employee, who was falsely called the owner of a restaurant and whose son was given a fictional illness, was made up.

Relotius’ work was first called into question in November after another reporter for the magazine worked with him on a story about a border militia in Arizona. The reporter found that the supposed interviews never happened.

The Relotius case resembles past instances where journalists have been caught fabricating stories. Those accused previously have included Stephen Glass, who was fired from the New Republic magazine, Jayson Blair, fired from the New York Times, and Janet Cooke, a Washington Post reporter whose story about a child addicted to heroin won a Pulitzer Price before it was revealed to be a fabrication.

It figures

Backlash as more radio stations ban "Baby, It's Cold Outside" over lyrics

We have only been listening to this song for 74 years and now it’s deemed inappropriate!!! Date rape? How do they come up with this lunacy? Pretty soon MADD will say Rudolph’s nose was red because he was drunk and playing the song advocates drunk driving over the holidays and should be banned. Aww...shit I just planted a seed.

BTW...you ever listen to the lyrics of Rap music?

Following the lead of several other radio stations in the United States and Canada, Bay Area radio station KOIT said it was banning the holiday staple "Baby, It's Cold Outside," CBS San Francisco reports. Many listeners have said the song heard on countless holiday playlists is inappropriate in the #MeToo era — but others are outraged the classic tune has been taken off the air.

Penned by "Guys and Dolls" writer Frank Loesser in 1944, the song's lyrics describe a woman trying extricate herself from a date and saying "no, no, no," while a man insists that she stays as he moves in closer, pours her more alcohol, and warns about the weather outside. Critics of the song say the lyrics promote date rape.

"I made the decision, it's off for now," Brian Figula, program manager at KOIT radio told CBS San Francisco, adding he is considering leaving the ultimate decision up to the people.

Since Figula announced the decision, the station has received many angry emails and social media posts from people upset with the decision, accusing the station of political correctness.

"They're upset!" said KOIT radio DJ Freska Griarte who has heard from lots of listeners from phone calls and social media posts.

"They're like, 'why are you guys doing this? What is going on? It's just a song. While for some people, it means something more," Griarte said.

"I could definitely see where it's a little uncomfortable when you think about the lyrics being said," said Genevieve Ellison of San Francisco. "But then so are most of the songs on the radio today, right?"

The station launched a poll on their website Tuesday. Listeners can weigh in on whether or not to bring the song back through this coming weekend. KOIT will announce the results of the poll Monday, Dec. 10 at 7:20 a.m.

An informal poll on CBS New York shows a majority of people think the song should not be banned from the airwaves.

Meanwhile, radio stations in Cleveland and Denver have banned the song for the holiday season.

In Cleveland, Star 102 Cleveland radio host Glenn Anderson wrote a blog post about the station's decision to stop playing the song. "We used to play the song 'Baby It's Cold Outside,' but you're the Christmas Executive Officer at Star 102 and you told us it's no longer appropriate," Anderson wrote. "I gotta be honest, I didn't understand why the lyrics were so bad ... Until I read them."

In Denver, however, outraged listeners reportedly forced KOSI 101.1 to have the song put back on the air after an online poll overwhelmingly supported the song.

"We value the opinion of all our listeners and appreciate the feedback we received," said KOSI's Jim Lawson said in a statement. "Respondents voted 95 percent in favor of us keeping the song as part of KOSI 101.1's tradition of playing all of your holiday favorites."

In Canada, CBC Radio announced Tuesday it would join at least two other broadcasters in the country — Rogers Media and Bell Media — in keeping the song off their holiday playlists.

CBC spokeswoman Nicola Makoway said the broadcaster planned to remove the song at midnight on Tuesday with "no plans to play it going forward."

Backlash as more radio stations ban "Baby, It's Cold Outside" over lyrics