The Young Turks April 1, 2015 Hour 1

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Cenk hosting today. Miami Vice intro for Cenk’s blue suit jacket. Sen Bob Menendez has been indicted for fraud. More reactions to Indiana’s gay discriminatory law. Videos of Hannity and Dinesh D’Souza lamenting the intolerance of gay rights activists for their right to discriminate. They went so far to say that if these activists spoke out against Sharia Law, our foreign policy would be stronger. Tucker Carlson jumping in on the issue on Fox News, claiming that gay activists against this law are Jihadis, looking to force them to obey. The state of Kentucky is arguing against the establishment of gay marriage in front of the Supreme Court with the idea that there is no discrimination towards gay people, as both gay and straight people are not allowed to marry someone of the same sex. Everyone is banned from doing it. After the Arkansas legislature passed nearly the same bill that Indiana just signed into law, the Republican governor has decided not to sign it after witnessing the fallout over Indiana. Asa Hutchinson sent it back to have amendments added to avoid the problems Mike Pence is dealing with. He mentioned that he spoke to business leaders about the issue, which affected his decision.

Sen Elizabeth Warren recounts a meeting with Jamie Dimon where they discussed regulatory constraints. When she pointed out that Dimon would be breaking the law if he got the rules he wanted, he smugly smiled and said they should just fine him, since he can afford it. Amazing Face of the Day: after 13 years of Gitmo and over 700 prisoners, only 6 convictions have been obtained. The 56 prisoners that have been cleared to leave but remain, cost U.S. taxpayers $168 million per year. Former Rep Michele Bachmann criticized Obama’s potential Iran deal by comparing it to the German Wings pilot that crashed the airplane full of passengers into mountains. Cenk points out that one political Party’s elected officials say such incendiary things, but the game is to call it even.

After President Obama increased fuel standards for new cars and Republicans lost their minds over it, claiming he would destroy the country over it, no one is talking about how cars after 2013 are emitting 9% less pollution than previous ones. Cars are also getting more MPG than even expected, saving consumers money at the pump.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tells-All In Book About JPMorgan Chase CEO
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/elizabeth-warren-jamie-dimon_n_6972182.html

Sean Hannity Thinks Anti-Gay Outrage Should Be Redirected
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannity-dsouza-slam-liberal-outrage-over-indiana-what-about-radical-islam/

Tucker Carlson And His Gay Supporter Jihadis
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tucker-carlson-indiana-gay-jihadis

What Made Arkansas Make Changes To Anti-Gay Law?
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/31/news/companies/walmart-arkansas-anti-lgbt-bill/

 

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  2. $3 mil per yr/per detainee at Qitmo? Does anyone have a breakdown of costs to support this number? Sounds fishy if you compare the annual cost per prisoner in the U.S. – $30k.

    2. I don’t have the breakdown, but it doesn’t seem fishy to me at all. First of all, it’s in a separate country – using a lease that Cuba considers bogus. They essentially consider us to be invaders and we have to defend the entire installation. We have to ship all resources over there, staffing costs which are almost certainly much more expensive, medicine, considerably escalated security – there might be some fishiness in conflating presence costs (the amount it would cost us to be there regardless of whether or not they were keeping prisoners) with cost per prisoner, but it is a totally different – and much more expensive – situation than a conventional jail in the US. (In addition to the fact that there aren’t many price controls on what contractors charge to support an operation like that, while domestic private prisons typically get a fixed amount per prisoner and are squeezing every last dime of profit possible.)

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