I just don't get it...

For the life of me I don't understand why the American voters would want to elect people who don't believe in government to be in charge of government. Wouldn't it be rather obvious that such people would not be motivated to make government actually, you know, WORK?

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Anti-science consequences

I agree:

These types of messages in this climate have the capacity to do enormous public-health harm.

--Steven Miles, bioethics professor from the University of Minnesota, offering a reward for proof of allegations made by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann that the HPV vaccine has caused mental retardation

The anti-science movement going on in this country is going to turn around and bite us - probably sooner rather than later.

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Racism

It's really distressing how racism is becoming "acceptable" again. I saw the following bumper sticker on a pickup truck this morning:

"Don't blame me. I voted for the old white guy."

Sure, it's descriptive. But why bring race into it unless one is a racist? Unless part of what the person doesn't like about Obama is the fact that he's not white?

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Not a good omen

This:

We have lit one candle today. It's going to be a bonfire pretty soon.

-- BOB TURNER, a Republican businessman who won the House seat vacated by disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner in a special election Tuesday in New York's heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District

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Something we really need to face

This is what I mean:

Arctic ice levels hit historic low, researchers say

Here's a little bit of what it says:

The amount of Arctic sea ice has melted to a historic low, with the area of land covered by ice at the smallest level since scientists began observing it with satellites in 1972, researchers from the University of Bremen in Germany report.
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They said their studies indicated that continuing ice decline was related to man-made global warming.

"It seems to be clear that this is a further consequence of the man-made global warming with global consequences," researchers said in their report. "Directly, the livehood of small animals, algae, fishes and mammals like polar bears and seals is more and more reduced."

So.

Are we going to do anything about it? As a species, I mean?
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What would help

This is by Peter Maurin who, along with Dorothy Day, was one of the founders of the Catholic worker movement:

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.

Everybody would be rich if nobody tried to become richer. And nobody would be poor if everybody tried to be the poorest. And everybody would be what he ought to be if everybody tried to be what he wants the other fellow to be.

And the source is, needless to say, The Catholic Worker paper.
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The current "can't do" American attitude

This is a re-post from 2009. I'm offering it again because I think the questions asked are really, really important and I, for one, haven't seen any improvement over the last two years:

I just came across a blog post from July 20 entitled "In 1969, We Moonwalked and Chewed Gum at the Same Time; What Happened to Us?" and I want to urge you to go read it. Here are two paragraphs that summarize the writer's point:

Compare who we were then with what we've become, and we have to ask; whatever happened to that "can-do" American spirit? Why have we gone from gung-ho idealists, capable of solving any problem, to a country of naysayers, who can't seem to solve problems without tearing ourselves apart in the process? In the forty years from 1929 to 1969, we solved the problems of an economic system that had once caused us to slide into Depression on a regular basis; we wired almost every home in the country with electricity; we created an infrastructure that was the envy of the world; we created an educational system that turned us from a largely illiterate society into a literate one; we made it possible for everyone who wanted to, to go to college; we created a mortgage system that allowed everyone who could afford one to buy a home; and we became the preeminent manufacturing power in the world. Between 1929 to 1969, a span of 40 years, we went from one of the most devastated nations in the world to being the premier economic superpower in the world. And we did it through sheer force of will.
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Look at what's happened in the subsequent 40 years. We've shipped almost all of our manufacturing overseas, and we make almost nothing that has an American name on it, and we have pretty much given up on the prospect of ever competing with the rest of the world. We have gone from being the largest creditor nation in the world to being the largest debtor nation in the world. We're more addicted to oil than ever before, and more dependent on others for it than at any other time in our history, despite the fact that technology exists to free ourselves from that addiction and dependence. And we are the only country in the industrialized world (although I guess we're more post-industrialized these days) that hasn't managed to cover everyone with health insurance.

There's more and it's really worth reading.

That question, "What happened to us?" is a hugely important one. I wish I knew the answer.
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Okay.....

I guess these things are all relative:

Three hundred billion dollars is better than nothing.

-- Gus Faucher, managing director for macroeconomics at Moody's Analytics, on reports that President Obama will introduce a plan for $300 billion to jump start the economy in a speech before Congress on Thursday
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The Government = "We the People"

I'd like to call your attention to an article entitled "Stopping Bashing Government Workers". Here's an excerpt that particularly spoke to me:

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, men and women proudly wore hats and shirts labeled “FDNY” and “NYPD.” When we wept for our nation, it was the bravery of the first responders that reminded us of our national character. There was a newfound respect for public service and a heartening change in how Americans viewed their government. Fire and police departments, and organizations such as the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps, saw a surge in applicants. We didn’t just want to believe in those workers. We wanted to be them.

In the 10 years since, those and other public workers haven’t been any less heroic or any less essential. But they have been significantly less appreciated, even demonized. “There are a lot of government employees that need to go find a real job,” Rep. Paul Broun (Ga.), a Tea Party favorite, snorted in June. For too many on the right, a government worker isn’t a worker at all.

When are we going to get it that the government is "us"? If any aspect of government isn't functioning well, we need to vote in people who believe in government, not those who don't!!

When government doesn't function effectively, we call that a "failed state". Is that what we want for our country?
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What can I say? Sigh....

Today's Congress

You know, this is actually heartbreaking as far as I'm concerned:

We no longer search for the best ideas or the best policies. Now you are either an ally or a traitor.

-- Rep. Jim Cooper, Democrat from Tennessee, on the entrenched dysfunction he has seen develop during his 11 terms in Congress
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Just study this one for a minute:

Why there's no real choice

This snippet is from a while back, actually. It still describes things pretty much as they are:

Ice melting

I want to call your attention to an article entitled "Huge chunk of ice breaks off Greenland glacier". Here's part of what it says:

A block of ice four times the size of Manhattan has split off from a Greenland glacier and melted--an event so dramatic that it's shocked the scientists who study the area.

Alun Hubbard of Aberystwyth University, Wales, said he was rendered "speechless" when he saw the now much smaller Petermann glacier. The break happened in 2010, but this is the first time photos have been available.
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Greenland's ice sheet may be melting at the rate of 400 billion tons per year. According to MSNBC, Greenland has lost "592.6 square miles of ice between 2000 and 2010.

But we're still probably not going to do anything to stop this or slow it down. (By "we", I mean humanity, of course.)
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Honorary station master Basu (ばす/Bus) of Aizu Railway Ashinomaki-Onsen Station

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How does he sleep at night?

Finally someone spells it out

I do agree with this:

The time has come for Israel to pay for its stance that sees it above international laws and disregards human conscience.

-- Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, saying Turkey would expel its Israeli ambassador ahead of the formal publication of a U.N. report about the 2010 incident in which Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish ship in the Gaza Strip, killing nine people
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One way for us just to get along with each other a bit better:

I hope nobody is offended by the language here. (Ha! I don't really think it could be expressed any other way as effectively....)


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What a REAL Democrat sounds like

Sunday art blogging

Artist: Alexander Kanoldt

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"There's something wrong with these people!"

Yes, indeed there is. Just watch:

The Sojourners Quote of the Week

This is heartbreaking, really:

"I don't think of it as stealing. These things were planted by a person who was going to harvest them. That person no longer has the ability to. It's not like the bank people who sit in their offices are going to come out here and pick figs."

-- Kelly Callahan, Atlanta, on why she forages for fruits and vegetables in the yards of her neighborhood’s vacant properties (Source: New York Times)

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The President's plan for Social Security

I want to call your attention to a short piece entitled "Why is President Obama so Anxious to Cut Social Security?" by Dean Baker. Here's a little bit of what it says:

For an average retiree who can expect to get benefits for 20 years, President Obama’s plan would cut their lifetime Social Security benefits by roughly 3 percent. By comparison, his much feared tax increases on the rich would reduce the after-tax income of someone earning $300,000 a year by just 0.5 percent. In this case, a beneficiary who will be mostly dependent on their Social Security income in retirement will take about six times as large a hit relative to their income under President Obama’s plan to cut to Social Security than a couple earning $300,000 would from his plan to raise their taxes.
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The determination to cut Social Security is especially strange given the finances of the program. Under the law, Social Security is financed by the designated Social Security tax. It does not contribute to the deficit, since the law prohibits payments from being made if there is not money in the Social Security trust fund. That means that if the trust fund were drained, rather than contributing to the deficit, full benefits would not be paid.

Mr. Baker does not answer the question in his title. The reason, sadly, remains a mystery.
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How sensible; how fair; how obvious:

What's happening regarding recent disability claims

This is truly horrible. What is wrong with our nation that we don't have the political will to do something about the desperation Mr. Astrue speaks of here?

It's primarily economic desperation — people on the margins who ... have no other place to go, and they take a shot at disability.

-- Michael Astrue, Social Security commissioner, as laid-off workers and aging baby boomers flood Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward insolvency
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Kicking the elderly to the curb

This just makes me sick - especially since I live in Oklahoma:

I also find it STUNNING that Coburn got applause for those remarks.

Also, you know what? Coburn was elected to the Senate in 2004. I don't remember him saying that Medicare and Social Security were unconstitutional while Bush was president. Do you think he's doing this now because Obama has turned out to be such a pushover?

I don't know. I just think it's odd that Republicans are jumping on this stuff now.

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An old but still pertinent cartoon:

You'd think the Secretary of Education would know better....

Oh, dear:

Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college. I feel very, very badly for the children there.

-- Arnie Duncan, U.S. Education Secretary, speaking about problems in the Texas public school system

And I feel bad for the United States that its Secretary of Education makes errors in grammar such as the one above. (To "feel badly" is to have one's sense of touch be impaired. What is needed in the quotation above is a predicate adjective - not an adverb.)

Okay, okay. Call me a grammar nazi. I don't care.
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Saddest paragraph I've read in a long time

This one:

A despair grips America today, a cold fear that our best days are behind us, that we are adrift and powerless. Yes, the Republicans are to blame. But so is a president who treats core American values as bargaining chips, who won’t fight for anything, who refuses to lead. It turns out hope does matter.

It's from a Newsweek article entitled "Oval Office Appeaser" by William Broyles. It's a short piece and one that is powerfully written. I do urge you to go read the whole thing.
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The phone hacking scandal

Truly appalling:

This practice was widely discussed in daily editorial conferences.

-- Clive Goodman, former royal correspondent for News of the World, in a letter written in 2007, but published August 16, claiming that phone hacking was widely known throughout the News International organization

Well, at least the more complete truth is starting to come out.
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Adapting to change

This is truly worth thinking about:

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

-- Charles Darwin

Hmmm. Explains a lot:

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Perhaps we'd better think about this:

A presidential insight

Is he just now realizing this?

There are some folks in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see America win.

-- Barack Obama, U.S. President, addressing auto-industry workers at a battery facility in Michigan on Thursday, Aug. 11
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A very brave young man

Now this is inspiring:

In Indiana in 2009, the senior class at a public school was asked to vote on whether to have a prayer as part of their graduation ceremony. A senior named Eric Workman, knowing full well that school-sponsored prayer is illegal even if a majority votes for it, filed a lawsuit and won an injunction against the prayer. The school administration responded by announcing it wouldn't review graduation speeches in advance, clearly hoping that some student would use the opportunity to say the same prayer -- except that the class valedictorian was Eric Workman, and he used his graduation speech to explain why the school's actions were unconstitutional and to explain the importance of the First Amendment.

I found it here.

Do also click on Eric Workman's name to learn more.
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London's burning

Here's the headline:

British Riots: Elites "Shocked" The Poor Are Rising Up Against Brutal Austerity Measures

And I want you to see this small passage:

The so-called leaders who have taken three solid days to return from their foreign holidays to a country in flames did not anticipate this. The people running Britain had absolutely no clue how desperate things had become. They thought that after thirty years of soaring inequality, in the middle of a recession, they could take away the last little things that gave people hope, the benefits, the jobs, the possibility of higher education, the support structures, and nothing would happen. They were wrong.

This is so well put. And so true. The privileged ones throughout the world need to pay attention to the point made in this paragraph I have quoted. We ignore this reality to our peril.
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Wow!

Yes, this is really the real cover:

So, so true

This:

Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

We ought to be terrified by the thought losing our commitment to separation of church and state.
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Today's CNN QuickVote

Well, isn't this interesting?

Does your congressional representative deserve re-election?

No

78%

Yes

22%

A Time Magazine quote of the day

So bring them home, Mr. President:

Their death is a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifice made by the men and women of our military and their families.

-- President Obama, on the 30 Americans who died in Afghanistan on Saturday after insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter

Why don't we learn from history? If neither the British nor the Soviet Union were able to prevail in Afghanistan, what makes us think we will be successful? It's insane.
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A serious question before us

Here it is:

What Happened to Obama?

It's by Drew Westen, a professor of psychology at Emory University and the author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.

Gosh, I'm truly not exaggerating when I say this article is profoundly insightful in answering the question posed by the title. Finally, I've found something that's helping me make sense of it all.

Here's just a small bit:

The president is fond of referring to “the arc of history,” paraphrasing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous statement that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” But with his deep-seated aversion to conflict and his profound failure to understand bully dynamics — in which conciliation is always the wrong course of action, because bullies perceive it as weakness and just punch harder the next time — he has broken that arc and has likely bent it backward for at least a generation.

When Dr. King spoke of the great arc bending toward justice, he did not mean that we should wait for it to bend. He exhorted others to put their full weight behind it, and he gave his life speaking with a voice that cut through the blistering force of water cannons and the gnashing teeth of police dogs. He preached the gospel of nonviolence, but he knew that whether a bully hid behind a club or a poll tax, the only effective response was to face the bully down, and to make the bully show his true and repugnant face in public.

In contrast, when faced with the greatest economic crisis, the greatest levels of economic inequality, and the greatest levels of corporate influence on politics since the Depression, Barack Obama stared into the eyes of history and chose to avert his gaze. Instead of indicting the people whose recklessness wrecked the economy, he put them in charge of it.

I do encourage you to click through and read the entire piece. It's a bit long so make sure you have a few minutes. Worth every word, however.
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More and more overt racism

Just watch all of it, please:

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Read it and weep:

US government loses triple-A credit rating

Well, I hope the tea-party folks are happy now.
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Why unions matter

CNN Quickvote

Well, I think most people here have got it right:

Which is a bigger concern for the U.S. economy?

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Unemployment

72%

Debt

28%

More on austerity

Here's the headline:

The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression

And here are a few snippets:

Republicans offered popular tax cuts so that they could later cut popular government programs “as a necessity.” Oh, we’d love to continue providing low cost, effective medical care under Medicare, but you see, the country just can’t afford it …
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So, after starting with a surplus in 2000, Republicans used two wars, two rounds of tax cuts, and a giant giveaway to big Pharma, to get the country racking up debt like a drunken sailor.
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Never mind that cutting Social Security to balance the budget is like attacking the mailman because your car doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with the budget – but again, that’s a mere fact. When you’re drowning the beast, facts don’t matter.
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News flash for all the debt mongers, Tea Partiers and other assorted ignoramuses. You can’t run a consumer-based economy when the vast majority of consumers don’t have enough money to buy anything.

Hard to believe our country is letting all this happen. Hard to believe.
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Realities we need to face

So here's the headline:

US of Austerity: What $570 Billion Cuts Will Do to Our Water, Air, the Jobless, Children, the Elderly, and the Poor

And here's just one bit:

Ben Schreiber, a tax analyst with Friends of the Earth, a national environmental advocacy group, says the Obama-GOP debt ceiling deal could also drive a stake through the heart of investments in wind, solar, and other clean-energy technologies. "The clean-energy revolution becomes a casualty of these cuts," Schreiber says. He adds that the Environmental Protection Agency also sends money to the states for their own environmental protection efforts, which could suffer after such a drastic cutback in domestic spending. At the same time, he says, corporate subsidies for oil and gas companies, worth an estimated $30 billion over ten years, are untouched in the latest debt ceiling proposal. "Polluters are getting off scot-free," he says. "We're basically turning the environment over to the industry."

You know, I just don't know what to say. Go read the rest of the article for yourself.
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Jim Wallis on "the deal"

Powerful words:

The debate we have just witnessed has shown Washington, D.C. not just to be broken, but corrupt. The American people are disgusted watching politicians play political chicken with the nation's economy and future. In such a bitter and unprincipled atmosphere, whoever has the political clout to enforce their self-interest and retain their privileges wins the battles. But there are two casualties in such political warfare: the common good and the most vulnerable.

-- Jim Wallis

You can read the rest of the article right here.
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Quote of the day

I respect this point of view:

Obama's starting point was a demand for a "clean," unencumbered bill to raise the ceiling; House Speaker John Boehner said no. What would have happened if Obama refused to budge? We don't know because that's not his style. It would be nice, someday, to find out.

- Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post, 8/1/2011

Sigh.
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Oh, what a headline

Right here:

If the Republic Had Not Died A Long Time Ago, This Would Indeed Be the Death of the Republic

It's a very short article by Chris Floyd, whom I've long admired.

Do click on through and take a look.
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"Unappeasable right-wing radicals"

This is from a statement by Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva. I respect this man:

This deal trades peoples’ livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable right-wing radicals, and I will not support it. Progressives have been organizing for months to oppose any scheme that cuts Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, and it now seems clear that even these bedrock pillars of the American success story are on the chopping block. Even if this deal were not as bad as it is, this would be enough for me to fight against its passage.
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A clean debt ceiling vote was the obvious way out of this, and many House Democrats have been saying so. Had that vote failed, the president should have exercised his Fourteenth Amendment responsibilities and ended this manufactured crisis.

You can read the entire statement right here.
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Some very interesting footage here:

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Tax reality

I like this headline:

When will they learn lower taxes doesn't mean money in your pocket

Actually, "they" won't. That's the sad part.
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Yeah, we get it

She has something to hide:

I'm running for the presidency of the United States. My husband is not running for the presidency. Neither are my children. Neither is our business.

-- Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Congresswoman, who refused Thursday to answer questions about her family's business and finances

But seriously. Does she really think this will fly? People running for the presidency have been subjected (along with their families) to intense scrutiny for a long time now. That's just the way it is. Those who aren't prepared for this really ought not to run.
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Farewell

Sad:

These doors may close, the address may change, but the name, the legacy and, most important, the work and healing will endure.

-- John M. McHugh, secretary of the Army, on the closure of the historic Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington next month; the principal hospital for soldiers returning from Afghanistan will be moved to facilities in Maryland and Virginia

I lived in the Greater Washington area for many years and I'm so used to the hospital being in its historic location.

Here's a little background:

Walter Reed closing after 102 years helping troops
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Sauce for the goose and all that...

Something Bill O'Reilly said

Well! He doesn't know history --- now does he?

No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder.

-- Bill O'Reilly, talk-show host, criticizing the American and European media for labeling self-confessed Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik a Christian extremist, despite Breivik's oral and written claims to believe in Christianity

Hey, Bill! Look up the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, okay?
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"Security" atrocities

This is simply sickening:

Bladder cancer survivor has new run-in with TSA

It's a very short article. Just click through and take a look.

Why do we put up with this?
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Oh wow; what a headline:

Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish

Check out this bit:

This “debt crisis” in no way had to happen. No natural disaster, no tsunami, has suddenly pounded the United States out of fiscal balance. We have simply suffered a colossal political failure. Our powers that be, by feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances.
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So why aren't we taxing the rich? Why are we now suffering such fearsome “debt crisis” angst? Why are our politicos so intent on shoving the “fiscal discipline” of layoffs and cutbacks — austerity — down the throats of average Americans?

No mystery here. Our political system is failing to tax the rich because the rich have fortunes large enough to buy off the political system.

The whole picture is very discouraging because the voting population in this country cannot be counted on to educate themselves.
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Interesting definition of recession

Here's something I found on someone's signature over on Democratic Underground:

To a conservative, a recession is when millions of workers suddenly decide to become lazy and irresponsible.

It's unattributed.

Tragically insightful, isn't it?
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Something very important about Social Security

Right here:

The very idea that Social Security might be on the chopping block in order to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding reveals both the cravenness of their demands and the callowness of the opposition to those demands.

In a former life I was a trustee of the Social Security trust fund. So let me set the record straight. Social Security isn’t responsible for the federal deficit. Just the opposite. Until last year Social Security took in more payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits. It lent the surpluses to the rest of the government.

Now that Social Security has started to pay out more than it takes in, Social Security can simply collect what the rest of the government owes it. This will keep it fully solvent for the next 26 years.

It's from an article by Robert Reich who is currently a professor of public policy at Berkeley.
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A very, very, very important question

I found this over on Fire Dog Lake:

Should it be ok for a candidate to present himself as progressive and populist when grabbing for power, only to turn around once in office and not use that power to advance a progressive agenda for the benefit of the American people?

So, what do you think?
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Union busting cruelty

You know, this is just plain sick:

Chicago Hyatt turns heat lamps on picketing workers

Here's what happened:

In winter, it can be awfully nice to walk by a luxury hotel that has heat lamps over its entryway. It would be less nice on a day with temperatures over 90 degrees and a heat index over 100 degrees, as workers picketing outside the Chicago Hyatt Thursday could now tell you in some detail after the hotel's heat lamps were turned on over their picket line.

And get this: it seems they turned the lamps off when the press arrived.
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Tragic, really:

The proposed cuts to Social Security

Well, here's the article:

President Obama's Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, But No Taxes for Wall Street by Dean Baker

And here's the part that really caught my attention:

The average Social Security check is about $1,100 a month. This would be less than an hour's pay for many of the Wall Street honchos whose greed and incompetence brought down the economy.

Yet, when President Obama preaches equality of sacrifice, it is the elderly and the poor who are supposed to do most of the sacrificing. His plan to change the annual cost-of-living adjustment formula for Social Security would reduce benefits for someone in their seventies by 3 percent, in their eighties by 6 percent and in their nineties by 9 percent.

These are huge cuts. The Republicans are screaming bloody murder because President Obama wants to raise the top tax rate by 4.6 percentage points. Imagine that he proposed raising taxes on the wealthy by twice as much. That is effectively what he is proposing for people in their nineties who are entirely dependent on Social Security.

What can I say? It's just horrible.
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Best Gay Pride poster yet!

Sent in by my friend, Charlotte A.

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Just a reminder, dear people:

You know, I think this is probably true:

You might like to check out the site mentioned about: Addicting Info. I just found it last night and it promises to be very interesting.

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Oh, my. This really sums matters up:

This actually has political implications, wouldn't you say?

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