Motivated In Ohio: 6/26/11

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Ohio Signs Into Law a Bill That Allows Guns In Bars. What Could Go Wrong? | AlterNet

Yesterday, Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law "a bill that allows gun owners in the state to carry concealed weapons into bars and other places where alcohol is served." Sure. Great idea. Neat law. Read More Here

Thom Hartmann on the News - July 1, 2011

Oil spill in Yellowstone River fouls water, miles of shoreline; cleanup under way

Munger Says Bankers' 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble

Munger Says Bankers' 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble

I would say that the same forces are at work today, as there was before the housing crisis. When are we going to say enough, and force our elected officials to actually work for the people of the United States instead of Big Banks, Big Business, and Big Oil?

Fox News Plan Exposed By Document

US Healthcare unaffordable to most Americans

Worst Persons: Yellin, Prosser and Beck

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Weekly Address: Cutting the Deficit and Creating Jobs

Ohio begins selling off its assets to raise cash

COLUMBUS — Six prisons, a 241-mile highway, dozens of college dorms, a liquor monopoly and thousands of city parking meters are all eligible to shift from government control to private operation under the budget bill signed into law by Gov. John Kasich. Read More Here

h/t Judi Powell

Some more interesting things about those 1,298,301 signatures | OhioDaily

To put the repeal of SB 5 on the ballot, slightly more than 231,000 valid signatures needed to be turned in. They had to include at least 3% of the voters in 44 of Ohio's 88 counties.

Wanna guess how many counties turned in that percentage?

88!!!!!!!!!!! Read More Here!

h/t Adrienne

Introducing Google Translate for Animals

GOP Encouraging of Government Shutdown

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Minnesota Government Shuts Down As Republicans Refuse To Raise Taxes On Millionaires

Minnesota Government Shuts Down As Republicans Refuse To Raise Taxes On Millionaires: "Minnesota’s government will be shutdown over the Fourth of July weekend as the state’s Republican-controlled state legislature and Democratic governor failed to reach an agreement to close a $5 billion budget deficit before midnight. To close the deficit, Gov. Mark Dayton (D) proposed raising taxes on people making over $1 million a year. Republicans, who [...]/"Read More Here

Fox News: GOP Scared of Debt Ceiling

Pt 2 Age of Greed: Finance and Take Overs Overwhelm Reforming Manufacturing

Citizens United Part II-The Last Word

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Friday, July 1, 2011

'I'll drink to that law': Ohio Statehouse adds bar-(Is this part of Jobs Ohio?)

'I'll drink to that law': Ohio Statehouse adds bar

h/t Judi Powell

Why Is Jerry Falwell's Evangelical University Getting Filthy Rich off Your Tax Money? | Investigations | AlterNet

Why Is Jerry Falwell's Evangelical University Getting Filthy Rich off Your Tax Money? | Investigations | AlterNet

h/t Judi Powell

Anti-Gay Senator's Horse Affair Caught On Tape

Behind the Ailes/Nixon Connection

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Kasich Sore Loser

h/t Plunderbund

Sabotaging the economy?--Hardball

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Thom Hartmann: Is Ohio's radical anti-workers agenda losing?

Greek & British Workers Stage Massive Strikes As Governments Push Sweeping Austerity Cuts

*Countdown with Keith ...: Are Republicans Trying to Tank the Economy

Jill Sobule Netroots Nation 2011 "They Say They Want Their America Back"

h/t Judi Powell

All Offers Made Now Posted Online. GOP Chose Millionaires Over Minnesotans

All Offers

Martin Bashir Criticizes Mitch McConnell for His Revisionist History on What Caused Our Deficit Problems--C & L

From the Horn of Africa, to Texas, to New Mexico Extreme Weather & Climate Taking Its Toll : TreeHugger

Three extreme weather stories to take you into the long holiday weekend in the US to which you probably should be paying attention: 1) Fire continues to threaten Los Alamos National Laboratory and its store of radioactive waste stored (shockingly) in drums outside; 2) the drought in Texas is so bad that the entire state has been declared a disaster area; 3) ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa and East Africa is sending masses of what are essentially climate refugees from Somalia into Kenya. Read More Here

Schumer: Cuts to Medicare Benefits "Not On the Table"

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The Rap Guide To Evolution

Holding Paul Ryan Accountable

Beck Signs Off

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Papantonio: Heartland Institute Kicks Off Climate Change Denial-a-Palooza

Matthews--Treasure Your Freedom

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Role of Revenue in Debt Reduction--The Last Word

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Corporate Taxes: 1955 Vs. 2010

Found on Moveon.org from Digg.com

Proof of a Do-Nothing Congress--Hardball

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Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Blog Archive | Ohio Digs Its Budget Hole Deeper

David Letterman - Dave's Monologue - 6/29/11

The Story of Human Rights

I saw something on Human Rights on Moveon.org, and checked into it a little further. I found this video. Wow.

Million Signature March

Photo from Progress Ohio

Citizens United donates to Mandel, Huey - David Catanese - POLITICO.com

Ohio Josh Mandel, treasurer is getting money from these people.

The Wageless, Profitable Recovery - NYTimes.com

The Wageless, Profitable Recovery - NYTimes.com

Shocking: story--In the current recovery, 88% of natl income growth goes to corp profits, just 1% to wages this is a MUST READ.

‘Food Terrorism’ Next Door to the Magic Kingdom

‘Food Terrorism’ Next Door to the Magic Kingdom

and a video from the Majority Report with Sam Sedar

Climate Chaos: Christian Parenti’s New Book Exposes How Global Warming Could Lead to Global Warfare

Hartmann & Hightower: Gov Rick Perry - Koch Bros new poster boy?

UK: Massive Anti-Austerity Protests

First Greece now U.K. is the U.S.A. next

Eric Cantor’s financial disclosures reveal that he bets against U.S. Treasury bonds.

Eric Cantor’s financial disclosures reveal that he bets against U.S. Treasury bonds.: "House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) has often expressed concern for how Obama administration policies are supposedly a “grave danger to America’s prosperity.” Now, the Wall Street Journal finds that Cantor actually invests in an exchange-traded fund that “takes a short position in long-dated government bonds” — effectively betting against the U.S. Treasury bonds that [...]/"Read More Here

[No wonder he isn't so concerned about the debt ceiling--MIO (Can someone say "Corruption")]

The Fundamental Transformation Of Glenn Beck: A Chalkboard Timeline--Media Matters

The Fundamental Transformation Of Glenn Beck: A Chalkboard Timeline

Worst Persons of the Day

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Did the President Make His Case?

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Arrests of top bankers finally begin - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

The Book of Cletis

The Book of Cletis

We finally have another Chapter in the Wizard of Ahs. Wow!

Broke Bank Mounting--The Daily Show

The Daily Show - Broke Bank Mounting
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Rewriting the concept of 'Real America'

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Is justice going to the highest bidder?--The Ed Show

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Ohioans unite against union stripping bill--TRMS

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One of those signatures is mine!

Thom Hartmann: The story of the 5 Kings who rule America

Extremely Dangerous

Requiem for a Rodeo Clown

The Friend of the Koch brothers, who has attended their "educational conferences", is finally off the air. I hope the Koch brothers lost a lot of money on him.

Papantonio: Climate Change Deniers Watching The World Burn

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never.

h/t Moveon.org

Portraits - Priorities USA Action

*Countdown with Keith ...: Worst Persons in the World, June 28, 2011

The People's Parade to Repeal SB5 (Rally)

Highlights From The President's Speech

Democracy Now! Reports From the Protests Outside Greek Parliament in Athens Ahead of Vote

The Michele Bachmann History Channel --The Founding Fathers

h/t MackTheAbsurd

Ohio loses 18K jobs in three month period, new BLS report shows - Columbus Government | Examiner.com

Fla. Gov. Scott attends Koch Summit. Where was Kasich?

Fla. Gov. Scott attended meeting hosted by billionaire Koch brothers in Colorado

The Dispatch Reported that our Governor was unable to attend the Koch Brothers Retreat

Also today, the Republican Kasich told The Dispatch that he did not attend the billionaire Koch brothers' private retreat for conservative leaders in Vail, Colo. over the weekend.
"But I wish I could've," Kasich said. "I couldn't go...I don't know if I was invited, but, I know those guys."

But the Palm Beach Post reported something entirely different.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, addressed the "Understanding and Addressing Threats to American Enterprise and Prosperity" conference on Sunday, and Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Bob McDonnell of Virginia also attended.

All I can say for now, is that this interests me! I want to know, what did our Governor do over the weekend, did he get his marching orders from the Koch Brothers who want to take over American Politics.

"According to Doherty’s book, the Kochs came to regard elected politicians as merely “actors playing out a script.” A longtime confidant of the Kochs told Doherty that the brothers wanted to “supply the themes and words for the scripts.” In order to alter the direction of America, they had to “influence the areas where policy ideas percolate from: academia and think tanks" Read more of the New Yorker Article here

Kasich already has proven ties to the Koch funded shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC for short.--Daily Kos

SLUT WALK COP'S CONTROVERSIAL REMARK

The Police Officer who made this unfortunate remark is Michael Sanguini.

h/t Cletis Stump

"Focus"--Ohio Treasurer

h/t Plunderbund

Koch Brothers Feed The Republican Ecosystem

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The Bachman Economic Plan--The Last Word

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Oh, for Fox Sake

The Daily Show - Happy Gays
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Huffman Compares Pro-Choice Lawmakers To Slave Owners

The right would be more believable as being pro life, if they cared at all about people after they were born; if they didn't stand between women and birth control, if they hadn't lied about Planned Parenthood and #notintendedtobeafactualstatement. As it is, they simply come across as hypocrites.

The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very Dyslogistically Ugly...

Spreading Santorum on Egypt

In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit Panelists

In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

"A Perfect Product of the Religious Right": Deconstructing Michele Bachmann’s GOP Presidential Bid

The Republican Plan

Papantonio: Why the Religious Right Loves the Tea Party

Senator Sanders on Deuling Over Debt--Countdown

If there is an ad, skip it, it looked like right wing BS.

Dr Willie Soon: a Career Fueled by Koch, Big Oil and Coal | Greenpeace USA

The Kochtopus Media Network

Hartmann: Big time Wisconsin political wrestling...Prosser chokes Bradley

Top Economist: Even Brief Default Will Cause New Recession And Blow Recovery 'Out Of The Water' | TPMDC

Top Economist: Even Brief Default Will Cause New Recession And Blow Recovery 'Out Of The Water' | TPMDC

h/t Venne

The Video John Kasich And AFP Don't Want You To See

The Koch funded "Americans For Prosperity" is awfully cozy with Gov. Johnny Wall Street.

The Video John Kasich And AFP Don't Want You To See from Progress Ohio on Vimeo.

Thanks Progress Ohio

h/t Adrienne

Sen Sanders to President Obama "Do Not Yield to Republican Blackmail"--The Ed Show

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Afghanistan (Voice and Words by Malalai Joya)

Hat Tip to Reality Zone.

Time to drive out the moneychangers

Most people like their community banks, and those institutions are not the topic of this article.
The topic of this article is the megabanks who entrap our citizens into mortgages that hurt them.

"It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five chance of putting the family out on the street–and the mortgage won’t even carry a disclosure of that fact to the homeowner."

--Elizabeth Warren

Given the fact that this is the largest purchase that a person makes in their lifetime, their should be some regulations protecting the consumer. Warren is involved in the start up of a protection agency for consumers of financial products, but there are those in congress who don't want the average person protected from the avarice of the big banks.

"House Republicans have been adamant since last year that they don't like the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and they also made it apparent they don't like Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration adviser who is helping launch the agency."

Last year, there was a "Move Your Money" campaign, to get people to move money from the heartless mega banks to local banks. If you haven't done so, please consider doing it now. If we can't get protection from the big banks, lets drive out the money changers.

I don't want the U.S. to be a series of Pottervilles, do you?

Koch brothers - Jane Mayer (Fresh Air) 3/3

If you missed part one, click here.
If you missed part two, click here.

Final Fight Over The Budget

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Monday, June 27, 2011

Governor Christie Using His Kids As Cover--The Last Word

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CBS' Bob Schieffer calls out Bachmann for her lies on 'Face The Nation'. She responds by prevaricating.--C & L

Where's Johnny?

From Progress Ohio

Keith Defines "Fox Populi"

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Daily Kos: White House Medicaid proposal would likely force states to cut aid

H/t Venne

This is what is likely to happen in the U.S. Instead of taxing the billionaires, poor people won't get health care. What is wrong with these people?

Daily Kos: White House Medicaid proposal would likely force states to cut aid

Hard times generation: Homeless kids

How much do we pay for bombs? Really, I'm serious, how much does a nice size bomb cost the American taxpayer? Is it enough to feed a few of these kids for a year or so? What kind of country, especially one that prides itself on being a "Christian nation", allows its children to go to bed hungry? If you can watch this without getting pissed off at the war mongers who put the needs of military contractors above the needs of children then, well, why go there though; no one who visits here is that callous. I'll finish that thought over at some of our more family values oriented conservative sites devoted to Ayn Rand. These kids are losers and parasites anyway, aren't they?--Cletis Stump

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