Saturday, December 3, 2011
Scott Walker’s New Policy May Result In Protesters Being Charged For The Pepper Spray Used Against Them
Scott Walker’s New Policy May Result In Protesters Being Charged For The Pepper Spray Used Against Them: Under a new policy unveiled late this week by the Walker administration, protesters who apply for permits to protest outside government buildings in Wisconsin may be charged for clean-up costs and the presence of police officers. “Gov. Scott Walker now wants to charge protesters for the time that the police that will monitor them and [...]/ Read More Here
Koch-Fueled Denial Backfires: Independents, Other Republicans Split With Tea-Party Extremists on Global Warming
Koch-Fueled Denial Backfires: Independents, Other Republicans Split With Tea-Party Extremists on Global Warming: Back in September, Reuters reported: More Americans than last year believe the world is warming and the change is likely influenced by the Republican presidential debates, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The percentage of Americans who believe the Earth has been warming rose to 83 percent from 75 percent last year in the poll [...]/ Read More Here
Friday, December 2, 2011
The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! - Forbes
The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! - Forbes
I have long argued that the impact of the Affordable Care Act is not nearly as big of a deal as opponents would have you believe. At the end of the day, the law is – in the main – little more than a successful effort to put an end to some of the more egregious health insurer abuses while creating an environment that should bring more Americans into programs that will give them at least some of the health care coverage they need.
There is, however, one notable exception – and it’s one that should have a long lasting and powerful impact on the future of health care in our country. Read More Here
There is, however, one notable exception – and it’s one that should have a long lasting and powerful impact on the future of health care in our country. Read More Here
"Occupy Oakland" Documentary
When is the last time you used your 1st amendment rights? In this documentary, you will follow an immigrant in his exploration of the Occupy Wallstreet movement in his hometown of Oakland, where tear gas and warlike scenes as well as grassroots movements are satirized. How to Be American? Perhaps it's more than just living in this great country.
"Occupy Oakland"
Newt Gingrich Rose to Wealth Through Congress : Roll Call Politics
Newt Gingrich Rose to Wealth Through Congress : Roll Call Politics
In 1979, an impoverished Georgia college professor named Newt Gingrich became a Member of Congress and proceeded to make himself a very rich man. Read More Here
Part 2: Shining a light under the rock where Internet bullies live - National liberal | Examiner.com
Part 2: Shining a light under the rock where Internet bullies live - National liberal | Examiner.com
In Part 1 of this series, we examined the "banana republic" style tactics employed by opponents of the effort to collect petitions in the attempt to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Now, it's time to take a look at some of the alleged players on the stage.
This reporter has written a series of stories about a Facebook page called "Operation Burn Notice." You can see the entire list here.
Read More Here
Now, it's time to take a look at some of the alleged players on the stage.
This reporter has written a series of stories about a Facebook page called "Operation Burn Notice." You can see the entire list here.
Read More Here
One Percenter: Tax The Rich Because People Like Me Don’t Create Jobs, The Middle Class Does
One Percenter: Tax The Rich Because People Like Me Don’t Create Jobs, The Middle Class Does: Today in Bloomberg Businessweek, Nick Hanauer, a sucessful venture capitalist who has helped launch more than 20 companies, including Amazon.com, writes an op-ed that demolishes the myth that the rich are “job creators” and that we should never raise their taxes. Hanauer says that government policymakers who have lowered taxes on the rich for decades [...]/ Read More Here
Ohio Gov. John Kasich Is ‘Very Pleased’ That The Auto Rescue He Originally Opposed Saved The Auto Industry
Ohio Gov. John Kasich Is ‘Very Pleased’ That The Auto Rescue He Originally Opposed Saved The Auto Industry: In 2008, the Obama administration fought the tide of Republican disapproval and decided to rescue General Motors and Chrysler. Millions in paid back loans and thousands of additional jobs later, GM and Chrysler are on track to sell 14 million cars, the “fastest pace in more than two years.” The American auto recovery is simultaneously [...]/ Read More Here
Ohio GOP Rep. Wants To Drug Test Americans Who Need Financial Aid: It’s ‘The Compassionate Thing To Do’
Ohio GOP Rep. Wants To Drug Test Americans Who Need Financial Aid: It’s ‘The Compassionate Thing To Do’: Republican lawmakers across the country are pushing the marginalization of low-income Americans by insisting they take a drug test before receiving federal aid. Joining Arizona, Indiana, Florida, Missouri, Maine, and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on the bandwagon, Ohio GOP state Sen. Tim Schaffer wants to break “the cycle of drug-induced poverty” with a bill [...]/ Read More Here
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Where is America? I sure miss her!--Motivated In Ohio
The other day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said that he had an "army" which was the seventh largest in the world. People protesting have been pepper sprayed, beaten and evicted. Jobs are few, and mostly overseas. The financial institutions that brought down the economy both here and abroad are not prosecuted, but rewarded.
People view paying their fair share of taxes as government theft. People are homeless, hungry and desperate, and the GOP candidates, look like a sketch on Saturday Night Live.
I remember a time, where most people made money by producing something. Where Wall Street didn't have a share of everyone's retirement plan. I remember a time where food wasn't super processed goo, and people knew the origins of it. I recall when Teachers, Firefighters and Police officers were respected professions. I remember all of this as America, and I sure miss her.
People view paying their fair share of taxes as government theft. People are homeless, hungry and desperate, and the GOP candidates, look like a sketch on Saturday Night Live.
I remember a time, where most people made money by producing something. Where Wall Street didn't have a share of everyone's retirement plan. I remember a time where food wasn't super processed goo, and people knew the origins of it. I recall when Teachers, Firefighters and Police officers were respected professions. I remember all of this as America, and I sure miss her.
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?
"I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation's foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message. "They're having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism." Read The Talking Points He Gave Here
"I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation's foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message. "They're having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism." Read The Talking Points He Gave Here
Indecision 2012 - Newt Gingrich Denies Lobbying
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
John Kasich’s Ohio Vanity License Plates--Plunderbund
John Kasich’s Ohio Vanity License Plates
We recently brought you the story of the re-design of the Ohio license plate. We decided to have some fun with it and asked our fans on Facebook what they thought John Kasich’s vanity plate should be. While we haven’t done an exhaustive search, we’re pretty sure that post broke a record for comments. We got 164 at last count! Read More Here
[I especially like the third one (hint turn it upside down)--MIO]
h/t Adrienne
We recently brought you the story of the re-design of the Ohio license plate. We decided to have some fun with it and asked our fans on Facebook what they thought John Kasich’s vanity plate should be. While we haven’t done an exhaustive search, we’re pretty sure that post broke a record for comments. We got 164 at last count! Read More Here
[I especially like the third one (hint turn it upside down)--MIO]
h/t Adrienne
More and More Refugees Flee the Devastation of Climate Change | Immigration | AlterNet
More and More Refugees Flee the Devastation of Climate Change | Immigration | AlterNet
Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates.
A whopping 90 percent of all disaster displacement within countries in 2010 was caused by climate- related disasters, the international body Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) reported. That year, 38.3 million women, men and children were forced to move, mainly by floods and storms. Read More Here
A whopping 90 percent of all disaster displacement within countries in 2010 was caused by climate- related disasters, the international body Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) reported. That year, 38.3 million women, men and children were forced to move, mainly by floods and storms. Read More Here
Gingrich, Alvin Toffler and the Constitution.--Motivated In Ohio
As many people know, I check multiple sources to know what is happening in the world. I was surprised when I was checking out a few facts on Newt Gingrich to come upon this at Red State.
He wrote the forward to Toffler’s last book, The Politics of the Third Wave.
I have many reasons, that I would not want Newt as President,
Newt Gingrich is a fan of author Alvin Toffler, who believes that our American system of government, which was designed by the Founding Fathers, and which is protected by our Constitution, has become obsolete, and needs to be discarded, and re-designed. According to Toffler (and Newt), “It needs to die and be replaced.”
He wrote the forward to Toffler’s last book, The Politics of the Third Wave.
“The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution… either we are going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we are going to have to rethink our process of making decisions.” Read More Here
I have many reasons, that I would not want Newt as President,
- His stand on Child Labor and the walk back after finding the public didn't like that.
- His personal lack of integrity.
But, I have never heard of a Candidate for President, who didn't want to uphold the Constitution before. That in itself is enough to disqualify him in my opinion.
The Cost of the Tea Party | FrumForum
The Cost of the Tea Party | FrumForum
Here’s some interesting data from Pew:
Americans turning against the “tea party” (however they understand the “tea party” to mean) is not exactly a new story, but here it continues to accelerate. Read More Here
Americans turning against the “tea party” (however they understand the “tea party” to mean) is not exactly a new story, but here it continues to accelerate. Read More Here
BBC News - Police raid Los Angeles and Philadelphia Occupy camps
BBC News - Police raid Los Angeles and Philadelphia Occupy camps
US police have raided Occupy Wall Street camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting protesters and tearing up their tent cities.
In Los Angeles, dozens of officers in riot gear took part in the late-night operation outside City Hall - two days after an eviction deadline had passed. Read More Here
In Los Angeles, dozens of officers in riot gear took part in the late-night operation outside City Hall - two days after an eviction deadline had passed. Read More Here
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Crony Capitalism? Hank Paulson’s Extraordinary Meeting - ProPublica
Crony Capitalism? Hank Paulson’s Extraordinary Meeting - ProPublica
by Jesse Eisinger
Yesterday, federal judge Jed Rakoff slammed the Securities and Exchange Commission for making a toothless settlement with Citigroup over financial crisis misdeeds, arguing that it obscured the basic facts of what actually happened. Today, Bloomberg has animportant story by Richard Teitelbaum that, from a very different vantage point, demonstrates the same infuriating point: Despite the economic wreckage we are still trying to repair, we have yet to have an adequate accounting of how the financial crisis happened, what caused it, and who knew what when.
According to the story, on July 21, 2008, then-Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson met with “a dozen or so hedge- fund managers and other Wall Street executives” and discussed “a possible scenario for placing Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] into ‘conservatorship.’” That’s a fancy term for a government seizure that would have allowed the entities to keep operating, but would have caused severe adverse consequences to holders of the Frannies’ equity and, possibly, debt. A fund manager told Bloomberg he was “shocked that Paulson would furnish such specific information -- to his mind, leaving little doubt that the Treasury Department would carry out the plan.” After the meeting, this manager consulted a lawyer, who told him to cease trading immediately in the Frannies, lest he later be accused of – here’s the rub – insider trading. Read More Here
According to the story, on July 21, 2008, then-Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson met with “a dozen or so hedge- fund managers and other Wall Street executives” and discussed “a possible scenario for placing Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] into ‘conservatorship.’” That’s a fancy term for a government seizure that would have allowed the entities to keep operating, but would have caused severe adverse consequences to holders of the Frannies’ equity and, possibly, debt. A fund manager told Bloomberg he was “shocked that Paulson would furnish such specific information -- to his mind, leaving little doubt that the Treasury Department would carry out the plan.” After the meeting, this manager consulted a lawyer, who told him to cease trading immediately in the Frannies, lest he later be accused of – here’s the rub – insider trading. Read More Here
Gingrich Praises Singapore’s ‘Very Draconian’ Laws That Mandate Executions For Drug Possession
Gingrich Praises Singapore’s ‘Very Draconian’ Laws That Mandate Executions For Drug Possession: GOP presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently sat down for an interview with Yahoo! News’s The Ticket. At one point, the interviewer, Chris Moody, asked Gingrich if he still supports a bill he introduced in the ’90s that would’ve given capital punishment to drug smugglers. Gingrich responded that he does support this [...]/ Read More Here
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word - Bloomberg
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word - Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting. Four months earlier, Bear Stearns Cos. had sold itself for just $10 a share to JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Read More Here
Where David Barton Gets His News | Right Wing Watch
Where David Barton Gets His News | Right Wing Watch
It’s hard to keep up with the distortions and falsehoods spewed by pseudo-historian David Barton, but it is a bit easier to understand Barton’s historical malpractice and ultraconservative rhetoric when one finds out that he gets all of his material from right-wing “news” sources. Read More Here
Kasich lies about reading newspapers
Kasich lies about reading newspapers
Remember yesterday when the Governor told people he didn’t read newspapers? Yeah, we do too. Strange, then, to see this quote in today’s Dispatch:
h/t Adrienne
'We the People' versus 'We the Corporation': Sentiment Builds for Banning Corporate Personhood, But Tough Road Ahead. | | AlterNet
'We the People' versus 'We the Corporation': Sentiment Builds for Banning Corporate Personhood, But Tough Road Ahead. | | AlterNet
How far should a constitutional amendment go to roll back corporate rights? And is it possible?
Across the country, momentum has been building for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that the democratic rights and freedoms granted to people do not apply to corporations and corporate entities.
In November alone, local voters in Colorado, Montana, Maine, Wisconsin andCalifornia passed various resolutions to ban corporate personhood. Seven bills have been introduced in the current Congress, including four this month—includingamendmentproposals. Public interest groups have been gathering petition signatures, all with an eye to the two-year anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling, known as Citizens United, which granted significant new political powers to corporations by ending a century-old prohibition on directly spending money from their corporate treasuries for political campaigns. Read More Here
Across the country, momentum has been building for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that the democratic rights and freedoms granted to people do not apply to corporations and corporate entities.
In November alone, local voters in Colorado, Montana, Maine, Wisconsin andCalifornia passed various resolutions to ban corporate personhood. Seven bills have been introduced in the current Congress, including four this month—includingamendmentproposals. Public interest groups have been gathering petition signatures, all with an eye to the two-year anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling, known as Citizens United, which granted significant new political powers to corporations by ending a century-old prohibition on directly spending money from their corporate treasuries for political campaigns. Read More Here
Constituents Rebuke GOP Congresswoman For Her Allegiance To ‘No Tax’ Pledge Instead Of The Constitution
Constituents Rebuke GOP Congresswoman For Her Allegiance To ‘No Tax’ Pledge Instead Of The Constitution: Last week, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) continued the trend of Republicans avoiding angry constituents by holding an invitation-only “community coffee.” But even the small number of constituents at the exclusive event did not let Herrera Beutler off the hook, asking her tough questions about her allegiance to a “no tax” pledge: U.S. Rep. Jaime [...]/ Read More Here
Monday, November 28, 2011
Debunking The ‘Democrats Are To Blame For The Super Committee’s Failure’ Argument, Part II
Debunking The ‘Democrats Are To Blame For The Super Committee’s Failure’ Argument, Part II: The Washington Posts’ Jennifer Rubin is attributing the failure of the super committee to Democrats’ refusal to accept partial Medicare privatization and any cuts to the Affordable Care Act. It’s a meme first advanced by super committee co-chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and echoed by conservatives like James Capretta: In this regard, nearly all of [...]/ Read More Here
The Book of Cletis: Curious and Curioser by Daniel Berry
The Book of Cletis: Curious and Curioser by Daniel Berry
Republicans sure do love their children and grandchildren. They talk about them all the time. They seem to be genuinely concerned that their children and grandchildren are going to be stuck with an enormous debt burden if something is not done to prevent it. Clearly, they are quite right to be concerned. Read More Here
Wall Street Banks Earned Billions In Profits Off $7.7 Trillion In Secret Fed Loans Made During The Financial Crisis
Wall Street Banks Earned Billions In Profits Off $7.7 Trillion In Secret Fed Loans Made During The Financial Crisis: In the lead-up to the financial crisis that crippled the American economy and plunged the country into a recession, the Federal Reserve made trillions in undisclosed loans to struggling banks and financial institutions, according to official documents obtained by Bloomberg News. Six of the country’s largest banks then turned those loans into more than $13 [...]/ Read More Here
To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism | | AlterNet
To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism | | AlterNet
Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.
There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.
He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?” Read More Here
Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.
There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.
He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?” Read More Here
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Media Misleads On Flawed Climate Sensitivity Study: Avoiding “Drastic Changes Over Land” Requires Emissions Cuts ASAP
Media Misleads On Flawed Climate Sensitivity Study: Avoiding “Drastic Changes Over Land” Requires Emissions Cuts ASAP: A new, deeply flawed study on the climate’s sensitivity to greenhouse gas emissions reveals just how poorly the media understand key climate science issues. It also reveals how eager some in the media are to push the mistaken message that failure to act quickly and aggressively on GHG emissions would not be catastrophic. Here’s what [...]/ Read More Here
Youngstown News, It’s time for Gov. Kasich to man up
Youngstown News, It’s time for Gov. Kasich to man up
In the words of the patron saint of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, “There you go again” — Governor John Kasich.
In 1980, Reagan, the Republican nominee for president, used that phrase numerous times in his debates with Democratic President Jimmy Carter. It was a strategy designed to disarm Carter whenever the president tried to point out his challenger’s shortcomings. Read More Here
In 1980, Reagan, the Republican nominee for president, used that phrase numerous times in his debates with Democratic President Jimmy Carter. It was a strategy designed to disarm Carter whenever the president tried to point out his challenger’s shortcomings. Read More Here
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