September 2011
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You Like They Give - The NOH8 Campaign
If the Montgomery-Duban Family receives 100,000 Likes before September 1st, they will donate $10,000 to the NOH8 campaign.
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What is the NOH8 Campaign? Glad you asked.
Per Wikipedia
The NOH8 Campaign is a silent protest photo project against California Proposition 8. The campaign features photographs portraying people in front of a white backdrop wearing white t-shirts, their...
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OK, I've replied to the "Obama has Caved" blog...
The so called “caving” has more people than ever talking about a Presidential speech. +1 to Obama — 0 to Boehner Boner looks like a douche… again. +1 to Obama — 0 to Boehner More people will be sitting in front of their Tee Vees on Thursday because of football then on Wednesday. +1 to Obama — 0 to Boehner The GOP will have nothing to really debate on...
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White House: Obama agrees to Boehner's wishes,... →
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They gave in. Come on. You could’ve easily kept this fight going for an entire week, Obama. Now you’re competing with the start of the NFL season. Do people give more of a crap about jobs or the fact that two teams of people who get overpaid for their work will entertain them for a couple of hours?
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Calm down folks! Fighting over the date would have been...
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August 2011
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Al Jazeera Finds Evidence of Dennis Kucinich's...
Al Jazeera news producer Jamal Elshayyal recently gained access to the Tripoli headquarter of Libya’s intelligence agency. Among the documents scattered throughout the demolished building were secret files indicating that influential Americans advised Muammar Gaddafi since the beginning of the Libyan uprising.
Some excerpts from his discovery:
On the floor of the intelligence...
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The GOP's Hypocritical Stance on Big Government -...
The GOP’s mantra is that the Govt. is too big and too pervasive. The solution is to cut government jobs, defund government programs.
Enter the new Texas’ law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, and, get this, requiring doctors to describe the images to their patients and requiring women to hear the descriptions.
The law is an example of Big Government Conservatism...
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President Obama has asked for a joint session of...
The letter to congressional leaders read as follows:
“Our Nation faces unprecedented economic challenges, and millions of hardworking Americans continue to look for jobs. As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consistent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our ...
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FOX News Spreading Falsehood... Again
FEMA chief Craig Fugate and National Weather Service director Jack Hayes recently wrote an op-ed about preparations for hurricane season. They noted the coordinated efforts of “the entire federal family, state, local and tribal governments, the faith-based and non-profit communities, and the private sector.”
Apparently, the phrase “federal family” got Faux News all worked up.
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Saving America from Rick Perry
Ruth Marcus (Washington Post): Perry’s 2010 Tea Party-steeped manifesto, “Fed Up!,” makes George Bush look like George McGovern. Perry has said he wasn’t planning to run for president when he wrote the book, and it shows:
● He floats the notion of repealing the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax. Perry describes the amendment as “the great milestone on the road to...
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"Happy Feet" The Stranded Penguin Headed Home
The wayward emperor penguin that was found on a New Zealand beach June 20, far from his Antarctic feeding grounds and moved to the zoo after he became ill from eating sand that he likely mistook for snow, has regained weight and is on his way back to the wild.
He is headed south aboard a New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research vessel. On the way, Happy Feet will be...
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Eid Mubarak to my Muslim friends!
Eid Mubarak (Arabic: عيد مبارك, Bengali: ঈদ মোবারক, Persian/Urdu: عید مُبارک) is a traditional Muslim greeting reserved for use on the festivals of Eid ul-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr. The phrase translates into English as “blessed festival”, and can be paraphrased as “may you enjoy a blessed festival”. Muslims wish each other Eid Mubarak after performing the Eid prayer. This...
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“Colin Powell Will Vote For Obama Again Because ‘Melanin Is Thicker Than Water’”
– Rush Limbaugh
I hate to even link to anything this person says, but I’m doing so because his voice, always brash and confrontational, is getting so brazenly racist that to ignore it would be a crime. In an increasingly polarized political climate, this person shows how crass and ignorant he...
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Mike ‘Heckuva Job Brownie’ Backs Eric Cantor’s...
If you’re trying to institute a new paradigm in the field of federal disaster relief, you could use a better ally than former FEMA Director Michael Brown, better known to most of you as “Heckuva Job” Brownie.
He’s the former International Arabian Horse Association Commissioner and the guy many blame for bungling the federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
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Fun questions in my Ask box that I won't directly...
inothernews:
Q: “Why do you only call out Republicans on their bullshit? Democrats have a pile just as high.”
A: Okay, great. So you acknowledge Republicans and their “bullshit,” thanks. Now please provide me with a Democratic example that is similar to the GOP trying to score political points with the Tea Party by tying hurricane relief to spending cuts. Thanks in advance.
So someone...
"Let's not panic till we know whether it's coming... →
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“The great blunder was made by George W. Bush when he had the whole country and...”
– Pat Buchanan
a very surprising and truthful admission by a Republican. Although I don’t fully agree about the US being a diminishing superpower. China is a rising one, for sure, but it will take a long time, and major political and humanitarian changes on China’s part, for the...
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Hey, does anybody know why pro-Assad Syrian forces... →
Not sure, but maybe because Columbia University is renowned for it’s Middle Eastern Studies department? And also, because of this? http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/29/robert_ford_attacked_in_syria_video
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50,000 people
That’s the estimated number of people killed since start of the Libya uprising, NTC military commander has told Reuters.
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simply no words…
Libyan fighters perform a prayer on the last day of the fasting month of Ramadan [AFP]
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The College Admissions Process is about to be...
Everything you’ve heard about getting in is about to go out the window.
The college admissions market is about to be digitized. A Boston-based firm called ConnectEDU is rolling out a Facebook-like networking platform that radically simplifies the task of students finding and applying to colleges and of colleges finding and recruiting students. If the software works as advertised, students...
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Scientists Discover Microbes That Turn Newspaper...
Tulane University scientists have discovered a strain of bacteria capable of turning old newspaper into butanol. Better yet, the newly-discovered bacteria is capable of doing so in the presence of oxygen, something other strains of cellulose-eating bacteria are not.
To be precise, the bacteria is the first to convert the cellulose found in old newspapers directly into butanol, which can then...
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It isn’t every day that we have an earthquake in...
Michele Bachman, putting her foot right in there once again.
“It isn’t every day that we have an earthquake in the United States.” Really Michele? As of August 30, there have been 2,901 earthquakes in the United States in 2011 (USGS). So, yes, there is an earthquake every day in the United States. In fact, there are multiple earthquakes every day.
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Ever wondered what happens to sick fish?
Well, wonder no more. LIFE looks at a “Fish Hospital” where the “fish doctor” treats fish, including giving them healing shots.
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Here's an example of why Republicans don't want...
At a town hall last Wednesday attended by ThinkProgress, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) was asked why he supports the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy since America has lost millions of jobs since its passage. When Lungren deflected, saying that everyone benefits from the Bush tax cuts and that Obama supported extending them, several people began jeering him. Lungren, who at one point threatened to...
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Six years ago, today, Katrina struck and brought...
Next hurricane making it’s way from the Atlantic is called Katia. The name normally used, Katrina, has been retired because it was a significant storm. Six years ago, today, was when Katrina touched down, and we’re still recovering from that. Lest we forget.
More here.
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“My brain is like a chicken pot pie. His is like a refrigerator that is all very...”
– Rick Perry
on his consultant Karl Rove, in 1994, when Rove helped him become agriculture commissioner.
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President Obama names the leading labor economist...
Replacing Austan Goolsbee. Alan Krueger is a prolific publisher of academic research papers. Brad Plumer takes a look at some of his published papers.
The minimum wage: Krueger might be most famous for the paper he did with David Card back in 1992 showing that an increase in the minimum wage doesn’t always increase unemployment, as most economists had long believed. Krueger and Card...
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Eric Cantor's Morally Reprehensible Hypocrisy on...
Steve Benen points out:
“As far as Eric Cantor is concerned, launching wars in Iraq and Afghanistan do not need to be paid for. Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires do not need to be paid for. Bailing out Wall Street does not need to be paid for. But when American communities are struck by a natural disaster, all of a sudden, House Republicans discover a new standard: if...
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College Rankings That Aren’t Ridiculous
Today, the Washington Monthly magazine is releasing its annual College Guide and Rankings, which The New York Times has called “more interesting than virtually any other ranking out there.” While U.S. News & World Report relies on crude and easily manipulated measures of wealth, exclusivity, and prestige for its rankings, the Washington Monthly rates schools based on what they are doing for...
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Is Rick Perry dumb?
Another Texas governor who drops his “g’s” and scorns elites is running for president and the whispers are the same: lightweight, incurious, instinctual. Strip away the euphemisms and Rick Perry is confronting an unavoidable question: Is he dumb — or just “misunderestimated?” But conversations with both Perry admirers and critics reveal a more complicated assessment about the mind of a...
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What's with all this Monday morning quaterbacking...
And it’s not even Monday yet! I’m so sick of people trying to analyze whether the Federal/FEMA reaction/response to Irene was over the top or not. Everyone can second guess and pretend to be experts on how the response should have been. So yeah, maybe Irene was not as devastating as predicted. But that is a good thing! Even so, 21 people have been confirmed dead, there are...
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Ron Paul doesn't see the need for a federal...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told NBC News on Friday that “there’s no magic about” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He said that he doesn’t see the need for a federal response to Hurricane Irene as the powerful storm makes its way up the east cost.
“We should be like 1900, we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960,” said the Texas...
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