July 2010
This Would Never Happen In America: We Have...
via tumblr.com This morning during a radio interview on 774 ABC Melbourne, the new Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard was asked point blank: “Do you believe in God?” Her reply: “No I don’t, John” Julia went on to say she was raised in a Baptist household and attended church regularly, but decided to “pursue a different path in her adult life“. The Prime Minister believes people...
Rep. Weiner GOES OFF On Republicans
via brooklynmutt.com Rep. Weiner GOES OFF On Republicans Over Blocking 9/11 Health Compensation Act - TPC I love this guy. That is REAL outrage. Not the fake GOP kind. Rep. Anthony Weiner spoke on the House floor tonight in support of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which was blocked from passage by House Republicans. Rep. Weiner addresses some of the false...
Jere Van Dyk: Afghanistan 101
via brooklynmutt.com Jere Van Dyk, who was a prisoner of the Taliban for 45 days, tells us what we should know about the history & culture of Afghanistan. Pashtunwali tribal law v Islam: How blood and lineage is more important than faith. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
The Benefits Of The Slow Struggle
I was never one who believed that Barack Obama could - in a mere two years - repair the enormous damage of decades of unfunded entitlement and defense spending, two disastrously conceived, off-budget and negligently prosecuted wars, a financial market collapse, the worst recession since the 1930s, two burst bubbles in tech and housing, and the importation of torture into the American way...
NOAA’s Conclusive Report: 2000s Were Hottest...
NOAA’s Conclusive Report: 2000s Were Hottest Decade on Record “The 2000s, the “aughts”—whatever you want to call the first decade of the 21st century, you can also call it the warmest 10 years on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just released its annual “State of the Climate” report, and after...
Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century...
A massive simulation of soot’s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century’s temperature change. Compared to the larger, longer term task of getting greenhouse-gas pollution under control, limiting soot wouldn’t be hard. Unlike new energy technology and profound changes in lifestyle, the tools — exhaust...
Defining White Culture
You might have noticed I didn’t mention racism. I’m not avoiding the subject. It’s certainly the case that many white people perpetrate racism — sometimes intentionally, sometimes not — but I don’t think there is anything particular about white culture that makes it inherently more racist than any other group. I say this with some trepidation, because I am...
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“Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Wednesday night that he is considering...”
– Politico (via squashed)
Because the Constitution written at the time of slavery isn’t bigoted enough.
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Republicans always out to reduce people’s rights through the Constitution. Graham knows this will not pass a vote, just pandering to the Far Right[eous] crowd.
The Ego That Is Newt
Newt Gingrich is clearly running for President. How do I know? He gets dumb and angry when running for office.Joe Klein, per Andrew Sullivan via balloon-juice.com via John Cole at http://www.balloon-juice.com/: “Newt Gingrich is a hustler, no more interested in actual “politics” than Sarah Palin, his natural heir. He wants money and media attention and payback for every real or imagined...
Liberals Are For Liberty, Conservatives Con You To...
The amount of people who vote against their self interests is staggering. The $30,000 a year guy in Kansas that thinks he is a Republican as he receives his farm subsidies. The Tea Party mental invalids who want government out of their medicare. The neocons and their wannabe Chicken Hawk followers who pushed for Unitary Executive Theory for Bush but now want super majorites for Obama. The...
96%. That’s An “A”, Right?
via thehighdefinite.com The Bush Administration’s gift that keeps giving. Tea Baggers and Right Wingers don’t really worry about how bad Republicans and conservatives run things as long as Obama is black and the Fox News lemmings refuse to acknowledge their horrendous political legacy. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Exploiting Labor Then Forgetting How Things Are...
“We are a nation that doesn’t understand how food reaches our tables. American agriculture depends on a hardworking, dedicated immigrant workforce. About three-quarters of all crop workers were born outside the country. Since the 1990s, at least half are not authorized to legally work in the U.S., according to government statistics. In an era of high unemployment, these undocumented workers...
Wealth In America: The Haves and The Been Hads
via cagle.com The flow of capital and ease of access to stimulate growth goes out the window when it comes to a rich person “conserving” his wealth. Then it becomes change all the rules so I can keep as much of my money and screw everybody past and present. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Strict Constitutional Interpretation Of AZ Law
“The parts of the Arizona law that were overturned by the judge were those parts that had to do with immigrants and enforcement of immigration law as relating to individuals. The ruling was that the Constitution specifically gives the area of immigrants and foreign policy directly to the Federal government. Therefore, all the provisions that had to do with stopping and checking (harassing...
John Stuart Mill On Conservatives
via brooklynmutt.com Liberal has the root word “liberty”. Conservative has the root word “con”. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Hardball: Chris Matthews Exposes GOP Failure To...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyvia msnbc.msn.com Republicans do not want to really fix the problem or find a solution because it’s such a great political issue. “An insatiable appetite to do nothing”. Make sure you watch the last few minutes. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Some at Fox Racist, Some Are The Most Racist
“Some of them [at Fox News] are racist, and some of them aren’t. Because what they’re doing is race-baiting. Basically, they, they have had a narrative going on for quite some time, I think the most famous kickoff was Glenn Beck saying that Barack Obama hated white people, what they’re doing is appealing to people’s basest instincts, racial hatred. Racial hatred is something that’s, that’s...
Tea Bag For Tea Baggers
via tumblr.com So fitting that Tea Baggers have no idea about major political and economic subjects, let alone the term “tea bagging”. Clueless, sexually repressed, control freaks who borrowed a term for steeping balls. Priceless. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
The Story Behind the Murder of Shirley Sherrod's...
The must-read for the day: The Story Behind the 1965 Killing of Sherrod’s Dad. Her dad was named Hosie Miller, and he was a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church in Newton, Ga., toward the southwest corner of the state. He was also a farmer who, according to CNN, grew corn, peanuts, cotton and cucumbers and raised hogs, cows and goats. Forty-five years ago, Hosie Miller was shot to death — in...
“We will not get beyond “race” then until we deal with racism itself. Folks...”
– “Shirley Sherrod’s Victory: A Teachable Moment on Talking Race” (via tart-tart)
For 200+ years slaves were not allowed to accrue anything: wealth, inheritance, family valuables, not to mention intangible lessons a mother/father passes to their children, the identity you have as a family member, and...
Missing The Point On Trig's Birth
A reader writes: Your reader’s excellent email describing the dialogue between Palin and her doctor reminded, oddly, of that recent video that went viral about the stupidly insistent person that wanted an iPhone 4. I imagine Palin’s dialogue with her doctor sounding more like that video: Palin: My water broke, and I’m having contractions. I want to give this speech,...
“Not sure who’s advocating it, but I know who’s against it — the know-nothing,...”
– Dave Winer (via ericmortensen)
The same country folk who have wealth redistributed from the big cities’ taxes to run their little podunk, monochromatic towns.
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment
via brooklynmutt.com Manipulation of a society, words not made to inform, but to inflame. “thanks to the perpetual fraud machine that is Fox News and the scum that is this assassin Breitbart” - Keith Olbermann on Shirley Sherrod and who made it possible. Consider the source. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Context Is Everything
Serwer provides some: For all the sound and fury, Breitbart’s video was nothing more than an alibi, an attempt to collectively exonerate the right from a charge of racism by turning it back on the NAACP. This is the precise origin of the oppositional culture developed by some conservatives in the aftermath of the 2008 election. It is broadly premised on convincing conservatives...
Context Is Everything
Serwer provides some: For all the sound and fury, Breitbart’s video was nothing more than an alibi, an attempt to collectively exonerate the right from a charge of racism by turning it back on the NAACP. This is the precise origin of the oppositional culture developed by some conservatives in the aftermath of the 2008 election. It is broadly premised on convincing conservatives...
Sherrod: I'm a Victim of Breitbart, Fox 'Racism'
Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department Georgia Director of Rural Development, says she is a victim. A victim of poor reporting and, as she contends, clear bias and racist coverage from both Andrew Breitbart and Fox News. “When you look at their reporting, this is just another way of seeing that they are (racist),” Sherrod told me about Fox in a lengthy interview...
What the NAACP Sees And the Media Doesn’t At Those...
July 19, 2010 What the NAACP Sees, and the Media Doesn’t, at Those Tea Party Rallies By Michael Shaw ” target=”_blank”>cometstarmoon</a> via Flickr via ThinkProgress via NAACP</p>” width=”500” /> photo: cometstarmoon via Flickr via ThinkProgress via NAACP Sadly, I’m afraid Matt Bai’s inclination to...
Obama Signs Wall Street Reform Into Law
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After several pen strokes, and plenty of pomp, the Wall Street reform bill became law this afternoon. At signing ceremony at DC’s Ronald Reagan building, President Obama declared “These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history,” adding that “unless your business...
Chris Mattews: Right Wing Mania Assails Modern...
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Chris Matthews vents about the Right Wing Mania and gets it exactly right
Transcript: Let me finish tonight with the Right Wing Mania hitting this country. I’m not talking about people worried, angry even over the bad economy, the high unemployment, the deficit, the rising national debt. Who isn`t worried about those things?...
Farmers in Sherrod Case: 'She Saved Our Farm'
via littlegreenfootballs.com Andrew Breitbart ended up manipulating the facts and spread them willfully. Is this the exception or the norm for a Right Wing newsperson to edit footage to deceive? It seems Breitbart can do no wrong within his base as his supporters love wearing the Black Hats in this western. Dishonesty among Conservatives is just a means to an end. No need to atone, just another...
Rupert Murdoch's Gamble Failed, Online Traffic...
Less than three weeks after the Times [UK] paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic. The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show.via guardian.co.uk Eff You, Murdoch. Glad people in the UK sent you a message Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com...
Lazy Bankers Rewarded With Billions, US Workers...
Funny how the same Republicans who do not want to help hard working, tax-paying Americans in between jobs with unemployment benefits for fear of making them lazy, are the same people who help script the laziest chapter in economic history with a regulation gutting, zero oversight and risk analysis averting investment banking industry that destroyed the world economy and insisted that billions in...
Cultural Divide Led By The Usual Suspects
“A great cultural divide is ripping the heart from this nation and Christians are partly responsible. I say that because 83% of the American people claim to be Christians. If those Christians lived as they are taught to live by the teacher they claim to follow, the American public square would be a very different kind of place. If one reads the New Testament—the charter for the Christian...
Politics Of "No"
via technipol.tumblr.com Kind of stale when you have the same answer for every problem we are trying to solve. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
10 Percent Is Enough: Capping Interest Rates
It is time to re-instate usury laws by capping interest rates at 10%. Why 10%? Because 10% is enough. It is enough to allow credit to flow to all worthy borrowers. It is enough to allow bankers their fair share of profit. It is enough to protect families from permanent indebtedness. And it is enough to divert our economy away from the speculative gambling that has caused our present...
Wanted: Cheap, Disposable Labor To Deport...
via tumblr.com Arizonans want it both ways. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Counterintuitive Contradictions Of Christians
“Conservative Christians are reeling from damaging family experiences — ranging from being beaten (in the interest of “godly discipline”) to being indoctrinated about science, sexuality and politics. And they’re in for disillusionment: finding out that their leaders (in the various personality cults they join that pass for “churches”) aren’t just fallen sinners in some general theological...
Change Is A Process, Not An Event
Democrats Jump Ahead in Congressional Ballot In the same week the U.S. Senate passed a Wall Street reform bill, a new Gallup Poll shows Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans in the generic congressional ballot, 49% to 43%. The result represents the first statistically significant lead for Democrats since Gallup began weekly tracking in March. “Whether the Democrats’...
Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves? Yet More Republican...
via brooklynmutt.com Just like they are claiming to be deficit hawks now that Obama is in control, Republicans are the undisputed masters of shoveling bullsh*t and having their lemming on the Right believe them. Democrats may tax and spend, but Republicans borrow and spend even more. Fiscally responsible, my ass. Paying back loans with interest. How can anyone with a 3rd grade education buy that...
G. O[bstruction] P.
via jonathan-cunningham.tumblr.com Those who can’t, run as a Republican. Those who can’t act that foolish and run as a Republican, fake themselves into believing Libertarianism is a real platform. Those who think Libertarianism is not fake enough become Tea Partiers. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Middle Class Denial: Wake Up!
“22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America” From a slide show at The Business Insider: 01. 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people. 02. 61 percent of Americans “always or usually” live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43...