Saturday, November 26, 2011
What's on the Menu in School Cafeterias?
Watch What's on the Menu in School Cafeterias? on PBS. See more from PBS NEWSHOUR.
7 Things Fox Viewers Are Wildly Misinformed About | Media | AlterNet
7 Things Fox Viewers Are Wildly Misinformed About | Media | AlterNet
What's stunning is how many different areas of the news and public policy Fox viewers are misinformed about.
The release this week of yet another survey indicating the more you watch Fox News the less they know, has once again shone a spotlight on one of the unique features that defines Rupert Murdoch's cable news outlet - it is very, very good at misinforming people. And it's very bad at reporting the news. In other words: Propaganda? Yes. News? Not so much. Read More Here
Friday, November 25, 2011
The Book of Cletis: Governing Demands Compromise by Eric Marshall
The Book of Cletis: Governing Demands Compromise by Eric Marshall
The recent failure of the deficit super-committee to reach an agreement on (partially) addressing America's long term debt problem is the latest indication that the "conservative" Republican Party has morphed into a radical, reactionary band of anti-tax zealots and anti-government buffoons. Despite the insistence of many in the Beltway media that "both sides" are to blame for the committee's recent impasse, it is quite clear that Democrats on the committee were willing to make significant concessions on entitlements in order to make a deal, and that their Republican counterparts were only willing to make token concessions on taxes, while insisting that Democrats enact a long legislative wish list that included the extension of the Bush tax cuts and the Ryan budget in order to placate fiscal terrorist Grover Norquist and the tea party. Read More Here
The Average Bush Tax Cut For The 1 Percent This Year Will Be Greater Than The Average Income Of The Other 99 Percent
The Average Bush Tax Cut For The 1 Percent This Year Will Be Greater Than The Average Income Of The Other 99 Percent: As Occupy Wall Street protestors continue to demonstrate across the country, congress’ fiscal super committee failed to craft a deficit reduction package due to Republican refusal to consider tax increases on the super wealthy. In fact, the only package that the GOP officially submitted to the committee included lowering the top tax rate from 35 [...]/ Read More Here
Thursday, November 24, 2011
This Thanksgiving, Many Who Once Donated To Food Banks Are Asking For Help Themselves
This Thanksgiving, Many Who Once Donated To Food Banks Are Asking For Help Themselves: While some eager shoppers are preparing to wait in long lines when their favorite stores open on Black Friday, many Americans are already lining up at food banks, simply hoping to put food on the table this Thanksgiving. In a heartbreaking report, CBS chronicles the plight of “America’s new poor” — many of whom used [...]/ Read More Here
How Republican Tax Intransigence Sank The Super Committee: A Timeline
How Republican Tax Intransigence Sank The Super Committee: A Timeline: Our guest blogger is Sarah Ayres, a research associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. By now we have all heard the latest in the months-long debate over reducing the nation’s deficit — barring a last-minute miracle, the congressional super committee tasked with finding at least $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction will fail [...]/ Read More Here
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Fracking halted in Wayne National Forest pending further study | Lancaster Eagle Gazette | lancastereaglegazette.com
Fracking halted in Wayne National Forest pending further study | Lancaster Eagle Gazette | lancastereaglegazette.com
NEW LEXINGTON -- The National Forest Service suspended a sale of drilling rights that involved more than 500 acres in Wayne National Forest in Perry County, to further study the effects of fracking on the land and water system. Read More Here
Daily Kos: Malaysian tribunal finds George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of war crimes
Daily Kos: Malaysian tribunal finds George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of war crimes
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The desire for a true rule of law exists somewhere, at least, even though they'll never rot in a prison cell.A tribunal in Malaysia, spearheaded by that nation’s former Prime Minister, yesterday found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of "crimes against peace" and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack. The seven-member Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal—which featured an American law professor as one of its chief prosecutors—has no formal enforcement power, but was modeled after a 1967 tribunal in Sweden and Denmark that found the U.S. guilty of a war of aggression in Vietnam, as even more so, after the U.S.-led Nuremberg Tribunal held after World War II. Just as the U.S. steadfastly ignored the 1967 tribunal on Vietnam, Bush and Blair both ignored the summons sent to them and thus were tried in absentia.
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BBC News - Seven men arrested over Amish hair-cutting attacks
BBC News - Seven men arrested over Amish hair-cutting attacks
Seven men have been charged for hate-crime in the US state of Ohio following a number of hair-cutting attacks in the Amish community.
Amish men and women have had their beards and hair cut in a spate of assaults that have been blamed on a breakaway group in the community.
Group leader Samuel Mullet, 66, and three of his sons are among those detained, prosecutors said. Read More Here
Amish men and women have had their beards and hair cut in a spate of assaults that have been blamed on a breakaway group in the community.
Group leader Samuel Mullet, 66, and three of his sons are among those detained, prosecutors said. Read More Here
Margin Call: A Small Movie Unveils Big Truths About Wall Street - ProPublica
Margin Call: A Small Movie Unveils Big Truths About Wall Street - ProPublica
Spoiler alert: This article discusses key scenes from the film.
J.C. Chandor has embraced Rahm Emanuel's dictum "never let a serious crisis go to waste." The 37-year-old writer and director used the financial crisis as a springboard to create the most insightful Wall Street movie ever filmed. Margin Call captures a day in the life of a Lehman Brothers-like bank as it scrambles to avoid falling into the first cracks of the financial crisis. Briskly paced and marvelously acted, the movie reveals how large financial institutions operate and the motivations of the people who work within them. Read More Here
J.C. Chandor has embraced Rahm Emanuel's dictum "never let a serious crisis go to waste." The 37-year-old writer and director used the financial crisis as a springboard to create the most insightful Wall Street movie ever filmed. Margin Call captures a day in the life of a Lehman Brothers-like bank as it scrambles to avoid falling into the first cracks of the financial crisis. Briskly paced and marvelously acted, the movie reveals how large financial institutions operate and the motivations of the people who work within them. Read More Here
Fair Elections Ohio Delivers 166,148 Additional Petition Signatures for HB194 Referendum - ProgressOhio
Fair Elections Ohio Delivers 166,148 Additional Petition Signatures for HB194 Referendum - ProgressOhio
COLUMBUS - Fair Elections Ohio officially delivered a supplemental referendum petition to the Secretary of State on Tuesday with more than 166,148 additional signatures that all but assures a statewide referendum vote at the 2012 general election on HB 194, called the "Election Reform" bill, legislation that actually makes it harder for Ohioans to vote and to have their votes counted. Read More Here
COLUMBUS - Fair Elections Ohio officially delivered a supplemental referendum petition to the Secretary of State on Tuesday with more than 166,148 additional signatures that all but assures a statewide referendum vote at the 2012 general election on HB 194, called the "Election Reform" bill, legislation that actually makes it harder for Ohioans to vote and to have their votes counted. Read More Here
h/t Adrienne
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Daily Kos: Why I spit on Republicans today
Daily Kos: Why I spit on Republicans today
There is no courage to prosecute wrongful deeds in this nation.
If there were, Dems. would prosecute Republicans for treason.
I am 57 years old, I earn 6 figures, I own a small business.
Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Sadism and austerity is not an economic policy and the political disobedience of conducting a tax rebellion in the middle of deficit spending is not responsible government. Read More Here
If there were, Dems. would prosecute Republicans for treason.
I am 57 years old, I earn 6 figures, I own a small business.
Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Sadism and austerity is not an economic policy and the political disobedience of conducting a tax rebellion in the middle of deficit spending is not responsible government. Read More Here
Gingrich’s Latest Social Security Scheme: Privatize The Program Then Bail Out Bad Investors
Gingrich’s Latest Social Security Scheme: Privatize The Program Then Bail Out Bad Investors: 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today released his latest big idea: a return to Bush-style Social Security privatization. Gingrich has been quite vocal in his support for privatized Social Security accounts, but today marked the first time that he laid out specifics as to how he would gut one of the most successful programs [...]/ Read More Here
Monday, November 21, 2011
The Super Committee and the Attack on Labor
[While I disagree with what he says about the President, I think Labor has been attacked here.--MIO]
Inside the Corporate Plan to Occupy the Pentagon | Mother Jones
Inside the Corporate Plan to Occupy the Pentagon | Mother Jones
With time fast running out for the so-called deficit supercommittee, the mammoth amount of government money spent on the military has become a prime target in Washington. But the main focus isn't on big-ticket weapons projects or expensive wars—it's on retirement benefits for the roughly 17 percent of soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen who have served 20 years or more in uniform. Currently the total cost of their benefits is about $50 billion a year. Read More Here
Newt Gingrich Pocketed Millions to Shill for Health Care Industry--But Didn't Register as a Lobbyist | | AlterNet
Newt Gingrich Pocketed Millions to Shill for Health Care Industry--But Didn't Register as a Lobbyist | | AlterNet
Another day, another story about Newt Gingrich profiteering. Well, three stories, actually.
The Washington Post reported this morning that a Gingrich “think tank,” the Center for Health Transformation, collected at least $37 million from health care industry groups, who were promised “access to Newt Gingrich” and “direct Newt interaction” in exchange for their cash. Also in exchange for their cash, perhaps, Gingrich took some interesting positions on health care reform: He supported the “individual mandate” that Americans buy insurance (or post a bond to cover unanticipated illness) as well as measures to encourage “end of life” planning. He ditched both positions, of course, once he realized they were unpopular with the Republican base. Read More Here
The Washington Post reported this morning that a Gingrich “think tank,” the Center for Health Transformation, collected at least $37 million from health care industry groups, who were promised “access to Newt Gingrich” and “direct Newt interaction” in exchange for their cash. Also in exchange for their cash, perhaps, Gingrich took some interesting positions on health care reform: He supported the “individual mandate” that Americans buy insurance (or post a bond to cover unanticipated illness) as well as measures to encourage “end of life” planning. He ditched both positions, of course, once he realized they were unpopular with the Republican base. Read More Here
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Daily Kos: Backsliding into Jim Crow in Alabama
Daily Kos: Backsliding into Jim Crow in Alabama
When I see the words "Jim Crow," I think of the south, of segregation, of black codes, of a minstrel show song.
When I think of Alabama and segregation those images run the gamut of violence—little girls in a bombed church in Birmingham, Bull Connor, marchers being hosed. Read More Here
h/t Adrienne
When I think of Alabama and segregation those images run the gamut of violence—little girls in a bombed church in Birmingham, Bull Connor, marchers being hosed. Read More Here
h/t Adrienne
Water. Coal. Fracking. Texas. Sanity. One of These Words Does Not Belong
Water. Coal. Fracking. Texas. Sanity. One of These Words Does Not Belong: JR: In one District west of Fort Worth, “the share of groundwater used by frackers was 40% in the first half of 2011, up from 25% in 2010.” – RL Miller has more on the collision between Texas’s record drought and its water-guzzling fossil-fuel dependence in this Daily Kos cross-post. In case anyone missed it, [...]/ Read More Here
VIDEO: Rep. Joe Walsh Calls Veterans Protesting Wall Street Un-American
VIDEO: Rep. Joe Walsh Calls Veterans Protesting Wall Street Un-American: At a November 19 town hall meeting in Gurnee, Illinois, Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) smeared Occupy Wall Street protesters as “generally spoiled, pampered, unfocused, clueless young people and a smattering of other people who don’t understand this country and are advocating anti-American solutions.” When asked by a subsequent questioner if his attack applied to “veterans [...]/ Read More Here
KC Star: Let Them Eat Crud | United Republic
KC Star: Let Them Eat Crud | United Republic
The Kansas City Star published a column today slamming Congress for backtracking on historic new improvements to the school lunch program:
Clearly, all of Michelle Obama’s digging in the White House garden, among other attempts to steer the nation’s children toward fresh fruits and vegetables, just got clobbered. If anyone needs more evidence that the U.S. Congress is working on behalf of lobbyists, rather than in the best interests of the nation, this charade is it.Read More Here
STUDY: Watching FOX News Makes You Stupid
STUDY: Watching FOX News Makes You Stupid
A new study shows that viewers who get their news from Fox News are the most misinformed in the country.
[Study from Last year, but still relevant.--MIO]
World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation. Read More Here
[Study from Last year, but still relevant.--MIO]
How the GOP uses Religion As a Prop--Motivated In Ohio
On November 19, in Iowa, many of the GOP, gathered at a church in Iowa to show people how religious they are. I call myself a Christian (full disclosure) but I find this type of gathering offensive. They all told about their relationship with Jesus, as they are proposing cuts to the social safety nets, in order to make sure that the top 1% are able to keep their tax breaks.
They had Focus on the Family there, as well as Frank Luntz to make sure it would sound good to people who's only crime is to want to believe.
People like Michele Bachmann get agriculture subsidies, while calling for an end to Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society". Rick Perry talks about the need to return to God, while having a pay to play environment in Texas.
Herman Cain has multiple women saying that he sexually harassed them.
My thoughts on this can be summed up by a single Bible Verse Matthew 7:20 (New Living Translation) "Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions."
Quit using Religion as a prop. Live it or don't, the choice is yours.
They had Focus on the Family there, as well as Frank Luntz to make sure it would sound good to people who's only crime is to want to believe.
Luntz teed up a question with a Glenn-Beckian narrative about the purported "hostility" of a powerful liberal force arrayed against the "3,000 or so people in this room." Those who are part of the anti-3,000 "don't understand" what's happening at the forum, Luntz said, explaining that church-goers are happier than people who don't go to church or pray. The implication, of course, was that liberals neither go to church or pray.--Alternet
People like Michele Bachmann get agriculture subsidies, while calling for an end to Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society". Rick Perry talks about the need to return to God, while having a pay to play environment in Texas.
“It’s a pay-to-play deal, always has been,” said Dunnam, the former representative, who was on a legislative committee that oversaw development funds.--Bloomberg
Herman Cain has multiple women saying that he sexually harassed them.
My thoughts on this can be summed up by a single Bible Verse Matthew 7:20 (New Living Translation) "Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions."
Quit using Religion as a prop. Live it or don't, the choice is yours.
Daily Kos: Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Is pepper spray a vegetable yet? Edition
Daily Kos: Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Is pepper spray a vegetable yet? Edition
Edward Glaeser welcomes you to the new old age, the one in which working till you drop is the norm. Read More Here
Newt Gingrich Calls For End Of Child Labor Laws | Addicting Info
h/t Clemans
Child Labor in U.S. History - The Child Labor Education Project
Child Labor in U.S. History - The Child Labor Education Project
Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories to move to the South. By 1900, states varied considerably in whether they had child labor standards and in their content and degree of enforcement. By then, American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers. Read More Here
h/t Clemans
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