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No one is this ignorant of reality!
Yesterday's widely read, though Murdoch owned, NY Post ran a story by Stephen Meister about how the big bad Democrats are bullying the poor banksters. If only!
If Democrats get their way, we'll soon have a nationwide freeze on home foreclosures -- imposing vast new losses on mortgage lenders and taxpayers, sidelining panicked homebuyers and ( Read more... ) -
No one is buying this bullshit anymore
Within hours of their dramatic unveiling on The Pledge in a Virginia hardware store, the House overwhelmingly passed H.R. 3470, Steve Cohen's Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now Act, which was deemed too favorable to poor people and to people of color to be approved by the new guard of the GOP. ( Read more... ) -
Righthaven...Fucking bastards!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking to assist defendants in the Righthaven copyright troll lawsuits. Righthaven, founded in March of 2010, files hundreds of copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of newspaper publishers against bloggers who make use of news content without permission. To that end, Righthaven searches the internet ( Read more... ) -
Lee Fang from Think Progress:
Today, Republicans will discuss their “Pledge to America,” the political agenda they plan to campaign on as they attempt to take control over the House of Representatives. The agenda is supposedly the culmination of a project GOP lawmakers launched - America Speaking Out - which was designed to give the public a virtual platform to submit ( Read more... ) -
American income. It's ugly for the 95% of us working for a living
Since 1970, the average economic family model has shifted from 1 earner to 2 earners per household. You are expected to have 104 checks to be considered middle-class as opposed to 52 30-40 years previous ( Read more... ) -
Christine O'Donnell is Christine O'Donell crazy!!!!
In 2004, Christine O'Donnell explained to a reporter for the News Journal in Delaware that, "I'm a conservative woman, but many conservative men really are chauvinistic." That's something many women -- especially Sarah Palin's Mama Grizzlies -- might understand. But a closer look at O'Donnell's public record on everything from psychics to freak ( Read more... ) -
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In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. The United States was displacing Great Britain as the world's wealthiest nation, but detailed information about its economy was not yet readily available ( Read more... ) -
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This past Saturday, Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be "non-political" despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to ( Read more... ) -
Sigh.....If they made it any easier.......
Ignorant people congregating together to bask in ignorant and empty pretend patriotic platitudes!
Or should I say Beckapaloser?
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Bob Burnett writes a great article outlining the Conservative/Republican ideology of the past 30 years!
An excerpt:
Republican panic about the size of the Federal deficit is wildly inconsistent with their plea to continue Bush-era tax cuts for the rich. Nonetheless they keep harping on both themes. It's emblematic of Republican faith-based ( Read more... )
