March 2011
Tea Party "Movement" Inceasingly Unpopular
CNN has a new poll out showing their highest-ever level of unfavorable views for the Tea Party movement. According to the poll, 47 percent of Americans now have an unfavorable view of the Tea Party, as compared to 32 percent with a favorable one. Let’s keep this simple: is the poll some sort of outlier or part of a trend? In the chart below, I’ve plotted all polls from the PollingReport.com...
“At the same time, it is also true that the principal alternative to nuclear...”
– David Frum
Interesting thoughts on the whole matter, I do find the whole spectacular versus mundane hazard concept fascinating. -Joe
(via stfuconservatives)
“Blue America retains diversity and divides its attention in all sorts of...”
– David Brin (via azspot)
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No Republican Candidates, First GOP Debate Moved
The first formal debate for the 2012 GOP presidential candidates was scheduled for May 2, which is less than five weeks away. However, with no credible candidates having actually launched campaigns, the event has been moved to September 14.
Obama 2012!
“[Glenn] Beck and Wall Street are terrified that regular Americans will begin to...”
– Stephen Lerner (via azspot)
“Why is NPR biased to the left? Because it simply doesn’t accept as truth the...”
– Ziyu Ziyu (via technipol)
If that isn’t the goddamn truth… When you’re political mission is to “conserve” the status quo, or even, as in many cases, to turn back the clock to “the good old days” while the world is moving forward around you, you have a great enemy in facts.
(via timekiller-s)
When No Doctrine Is A Good Thing
theatlantic:
Obama Has No Doctrine
After two years of searching for something resembling a grand global strategy, some pundits tentatively decided they had heard the outlines of an “Obama Doctrine” on Monday night. In a speech to the nation that lasted less than 30 minutes, the president delivered a cogent argument in favor of humanitarian intervention in Libya and sketched out a...
Horrifying Number: Three-Hundred Fifty-One... →
The pro-fetus, anti-woman, anti-child, anti-privacy GOP platform has to change.
Michigan Republicans Cut Jobless Benefit by Six...
Michigan, whose unemployment rate has topped 10 percent longer than that of any other state, is about to set another record: its new Republican governor, Rick Snyder, signed a law Monday that will lead the state to pay fewer weeks of unemployment benefits next year than any other state.
Democrats and advocates for the unemployed expressed outrage that a such a hard-hit state will become the...
Example: TAXPAYER RECEIPT →
gonzodave:
http://www.democracyjournal.org/taxpayer%20receipt.jpg
The commonly assumed large foreign aid expenditure is a myth conveniently NOT corrected, but endorsed by lying politicians.
Most taxpayers are misled by the Social Security entry being lumped into this pot.
Social Security FICA payroll revenue from employers and employees is paid into its own Non-US Treasury fund, has yearly...
“When I see this, I wonder whether Bin Laden had a point.”
– an Italian commenter on a web page dedicated to Jersey Shore’s arrival on Italian television.
Sam Harris: The issue here is deeper than politics. We are in a situation, to take one domestic policy issue, stem cell research, where you can get on the floor of the Senate or stand in the Oval Office and oppose the most promising line of research in biology on the basis of First Century ideas.
Laura Ingraham: That's a lie, Sam. That's a lie. Sam, that's a lie. That's a lie.
Sam Harris: It's not a lie if you're a biologist.
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The Birtherism Lexicon: Shades Of Sleaze
Libertarian billionaire David Koch isn’t a birther, exactly; he just thinks the president is a Marxist who got all his ideas from his father:
David agreed. “He’s the most radical president we’ve ever had as a nation,” he said, “and has done more damage to the free enterprise system and long-term prosperity than any president we’ve ever had.” David suggested the president’s radicalism...
“The difference between Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin as candidates for the...”
– (via steampunkanachronism)
And about 40 more IQ points for Geraldine.
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“CNN says there’s a tsunami warning for Japan again after a 6.5 magnitude quake.”
– @GSorensen (via brooklynmutt)
R.I.P., Geraldine Ferraro. →
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who strode onto a podium in 1984 to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party, died Saturday in Boston.
The Legacy Of Obama's Cairo Speech
President Obama gave his Cairo Speech on June 4, 2009
Pledging “to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims,” President Obama reached out to the world’s 1.5 billion followers of Islam on Thursday, addressing an appreciative crowd at Cairo University.
Quoting from the Quran, the Talmud and the Bible — and closing to a standing ovation — Obama said his address...
“Because I am a man and will never be pregnant myself or have that decision to...”
– Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: TX Republican Rep. Jeff Wentworth’s reasons for voting against TX sonogram bill (via informate)
EVERYBODY THIS IS THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE! REP. WENTWORTH IS THAT RARE REPUBLICAN WHO GETS IT!!! HURRY UP AND LOOK YOU MIGHT NOT EVER SEE THIS AGAIN!
(via...
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“Not to steal Bill Maher’s schtick, but new rule: if you’re not willing to...”
– Ezra Klein (via thepoliticalpartygirl)
Republicans don’t care about deficits. They care about taxes. That’s why Clinton balanced the budget and Cheney said, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.”
(via ericmortensen)
They matter to Republicans when Dems are in the White House. #fakefiscalhawks
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty...”
– Elizabeth Taylor (via straightlikeindianhair) #RIP
“If you’re so pro-life, do me a favor: don’t lock arms and block medical clinics....”
– Bill Hicks (via bostonwalkforchoice)
“Liberals would rather lose honorably than be accused of acting unfairly. As a...”
– Will Durst
The “comfortable losing” line is a bit much, but the treating teachers as enemies is spot on. The working class is under attack. Wake up!
“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost!”
– Ronald Reagan, Labor Day 1980
Of course, democrats are too polite to bring that up…
“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine...”
– George Carlin (via celticthistle)
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be...”
– CNBC host LARRY KUDLOW, the day the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, March 11, 2011.
He later apologized. On Twitter.
A helpful reminder that most times, Wall Street types forget all about the human element of the things they deal in. For them, money overrules everything, including emotion,...
In Case Of Revolution
socialspew:
“I’m baffled by a conservatism that proudly proclaims the righteousness of Bush’s...”
– Submitted to a Candid World (via azspot)
Libya: UK Parliament v US Congress
A parliamentary debate will be held and a vote on the Libya war will be taken. When will the US Congress be able to debate and vote? When will the congressmen and Senators actually take a position for the record? Or is that kind of democracy the kind of thing we only export and don’t actually follow ourselves?
Congress needs their talking points and political spin before they can address...