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Theocracy Wing Nuts
Picking and choosing
Isn’t it interesting, how Republicans pick and choose which moral positions they decide they want to support? Too bad they don’t knuckle under to pressure from the Catholic church on policies like this – and that the church doesn’t work quite as strenuously to push social justice issues as it does with those having to do with reproduction: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been quietly lobbying Congress to keep extended unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless. [...]
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News You Can Use The Body Electric
Diet soda
It’s bad for a lot of reasons (bone health is another) but this is a pretty good reason to switch to water: Diet soda may seem to be a healthier alternative to calorie-laden regular soda, but a new study shows that people who regularly drink diet soft drinks may be putting their hearts at risk. Those who drank diet soda on a daily basis were at an increased risk of experiencing stroke, heart attack and death due to these conditions, [...]
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Fuck the Poor Media Politics As Usual
Clint, how could you?
High-level Republican propagandists are still suffering from a severe case of cognitive dissonance resulting from the Chrysler ad, shown during the Super Bowl, in which Clint Eastwood — a hero of Ronald Reagan — praises the Detroit auto industry and Americans workers for fighting hard to recover from the collapse of the economy in 2008. From Raw Story.com: “They almost lost everything,” Eastwood says [in the ad]. “But we all pulled together. Now Motor City is fighting again.” “How do [...]
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Class War
Nudge nudge, wink wink
I am so sick of this guy and his cynicism: President Obama has message for Wall St. — I will not demonize you, just Mitt Romney and his ties to you. That assurance was conveyed by Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina in a private meeting with nervous Democratic donors from the financial services industry, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Messina met with some of Obama’s biggest backers this week at the members only Core Club in Manhattan, where he was questioned [...]
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Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Disastrous Politics As Usual
Close call
California nuclear meltdown was barely averted last week. Bookmark It
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Tear stained eye
Son Volt: Bookmark It
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Class War Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Fuck the Poor Politics As Usual
Insulting
Slap on the hand. Big whoop! After months of painstaking talks, the nation’s biggest banks have agreed to a $25 billion settlement that could provide relief to more than two million current and former American homeowners harmed by the bursting of the housing bubble, state and federal officials said. It is part of a broad government settlement aimed at halting the housing market’s downward slide. Yves Smith is scornful, too. Plenty of reasons! We’ve now set a price for forgeries [...]
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Class War Featured
The Mincome experiment
Giving people a guaranteed annual income is an idea that’s been embraced by a lot of smart people. What most people don’t know is that in Canada, for a short time, it actually happened: Although the Mincome experiment was intended to provide a body of information to study labour market trends, Forget discovered that Mincome had a significant effect on people’s well being. Two years ago, the professor started studying the health records of Dauphin residents to assess the impacts [...]
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12:13 pm
Investment involves risk, serfs!
2:02 pm
I’m sure this will get to the Supreme Court, which under Roberts’ leadership views corporations as “persons” with rights. Iit seems to, generally, favor these corporate “persons” over individuals.
Since states and other local governments represent the “people,” real persons as opposed to corporate “persons,” will the Supremes find for the Big Banksters and Big Corporations? My gut reaction is one of trepidation.