January 2010
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AMERICA DIDN'T BUY IT
RT @ezraklein http://tinyurl.com/ycrb2ws
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“Our health-care problem is our deficit problem,” Obama said in September. “Nothing else even comes close.” He’s right. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities made the point clearly in a recent report on the budget outlook. The whole game, they wrote, is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “Growth in...
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Frank Rich: The State of the Union Is Comatose
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Obama should turn up the heat on both the G.O.P’s record of fiscal recklessness and its mad-dog obstructionism. He should stop paying lip service to the fantasy that his Congressional opposition has serious ideas to contribute to the cleanup. Better still, he should publicize exactly what those “ideas” are.
Yes, the Republicans were correct to laugh at one of the president’s own...
“So to recap: CBS wouldn’t allow a group to criticize Bush, wouldn’t let a...”
– DownWithTyranny! (via azspot)
CREDO has a petition to sign in protest: I blogged it ~ waif
CREDO: Pass a public option with 51 votes
Goodbye “filibuster-proof” majority. Tell Dems: Use reconciliation to pass public option. http://bit.ly/7cNbpI @CREDOmobile Pls RT
CREDO Petition to CBS
Tell CBS: Don’t air anti-abortion Super Bowl ad! http://bit.ly/4z22TF Please RT
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Compare and Contrast
These two posts showed up, one under the other, on my dash. Curious. =)
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At the beginning of the last decade, the year 2000, America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade. Most of this was the result of not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an...
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“There is probably no faction more historically famous for viciously turning on...”
– Sarah Palin’s still going to collect her Tea Party Convention speaker’s fee… (via ryking)
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Freepress Petition
I just said no to Comcast’s takeover of NBC! http://bit.ly/1WciqP #NoMerger (via @freepress)
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CREDO Petition
Don’t let Big Business buy our democracy! Sign today: http://bit.ly/dszGrk #CitizensUnited
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Gloria Allred Catches HUGE Lies in the Tebow...
ryking:
If CBS runs this right-wing advocacy ad — especially after refusing left-wing advocacy ads on various subjects over the years — the FCC may get involved since attorney Gloria Allred has pointed out that the ad is based on lies:
In the controversial ad, Pam [Tebow] reportedly shares the story of her difficult 1987 pregnancy which occurred when she was working as a missionary in the...
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That black dude on the Viagra commercial was...
savagemike:
notesonascandal:
Dressed really sharp, nice salt n’ pepper gray hair. He probably smells really good too.
Too bad about his dick problems.
I have my own theory about Viagra… I think it’s a scam. If my dick isn’t getting hard fast enough for you girl, then help me out. Put it in your mouth or something, that works every time.
It’s not a scam, it does actually work. My...
My Letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of...
savagemike:
My Letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California - Mr. Governor: I read an article online today… http://tumblr.com/xkw5xxbbb
Well done, Mike. Bravo!
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CA Senate ignores Arnie, okays single-payer health... →
savagemike:
The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation’s most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Supporters said it is time for state legislatures to take up the debate as the Obama Administration’s national health care proposal falters in Congress.
“If it’s not to be done at the national level,...
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There is no Jewish fatwah →
The Taboo That Just Won’t Shut Up, Chapter 43
by Jeffery Goldberg
Andrew Sullivan, in a post on the root causes of jihadism, praises a writer for the American Conservative, Daniel Larison, for his bravery in addressing what he sees as a strong connection between terrorism and America’s support for Israel. Larison, Andrew writes, “as often, treads where angels fear to.”...
Sometimes, I forget he's black too. Then I...
notthatkindagay:
Chris Matthews was incredibly inarticulate last night, to say the least. That being said, I somewhat understand the point he was trying to make. Think about it. For about 220 years the majority of this country was obsessed with race. Race literally tore us apart at one point. Some would argue that it may have ideologically torn us apart again during the civil rights movement....
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“Antisemitism on the Internet is one of the newest forms of hatred towards Jews,...”
– Jewish Tribune - Antisemitism: Internet is newest medium, global forum told (via jewsome)
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Loston Harris - Swinging at the Haven...
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Loston Harris - Stompin Down Broadway...
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Academics fight rise of creationism at... →
(via savagemike)
Fuck. I am so tired of stupid people and their idiotic religious self righteousness dumbing down everything in their path.
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Dear Anti-Choice Idiots,
rabbleprochoice:
Stop saying “it is murder to kill a baby the day after it’s born, but not the day before”. You’re being lying fuckheads.
No abortions are done past 26 weeks. Ever. It’s dangerous to the mother’s health past that point. Not morally wrong, dangerous. Get that through your heads please. It’s like getting a root canal. There’s nothing morally wrong with getting a root canal, but...
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“I am an independent, autonomous adult, and I should be able to leave my...”
– Never Be Silent: Three feminist rants (caraobrien: tsupii: ilovefat: seaponies: crustyriotgrrl: fuckyeahfeminists) (via katoleary)(via gauntlet) (via robot-heart-politics)
sendmelies:
jeffrock:
OMG GUYS DID YOU HEAR!?!?!?
BOOM.
Happy birthday, Amadeus! ~waif
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In other words, it is a critique of that line of...
catbus:
edit: I have posted about this before so let me add this. I consider this whole Fetus Chat to be, in general, two sides of the same really stupid coin. On the one you have pro-life nuggets of idiocy like “It’s a good thing that Jesus wasn’t aborted,” and on the other you have rabbleprochoice posting, in earnest, “it’s too bad Hitler didn’t get aborted.” Even if you are making the above...
WatchElizabeth Warren On The Daily Show: If We Don’t Act ‘The Game Really Is Over’
On Tuesday night’s Daily Show, bailout watchdog and financial reform advocate Elizabeth Warren told Jon Stewart that “this is really the moment” that will determine the future of America’s middle class — the system must be fixed or “the game really is over.”
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I don't believe in Jesus Christ.
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waifsworld:
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scaeriel:
(via the-boy-who-blocked-his-own-shot)
Jesus was a real dude back in the day. Whether or not you believe in all his glory and the fact that he is God’s son is a different thing. But yeah, he was real.
Was he? I haven’t seen any actual historical evidence to point to the existence of Jesus as a real person.
Josephus...
The Rise Of Cloture: How GOP Filibuster Threats... →
(via ryking)
I don't believe in Jesus Christ.
sendmelies:
jonathan-cunningham:
scaeriel:
(via the-boy-who-blocked-his-own-shot)
Jesus was a real dude back in the day. Whether or not you believe in all his glory and the fact that he is God’s son is a different thing. But yeah, he was real.
Was he? I haven’t seen any actual historical evidence to point to the existence of Jesus as a real person.
Josephus wrote about him. But yet...
I don't believe in Jesus Christ.
jonathan-cunningham:
scaeriel:
(via the-boy-who-blocked-his-own-shot)
Jesus was a real dude back in the day. Whether or not you believe in all his glory and the fact that he is God’s son is a different thing. But yeah, he was real.
Was he? I haven’t seen any actual historical evidence to point to the existence of Jesus as a real person.
There doesn’t seem to be an corroboration...
Obit: Ruth P. Smith, Pioneer for Reproductive... →
savingpaper:
In the 1940s Mrs. Smith became a fieldworker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and was later its executive secretary. Afterward, she held high positions with several national reproductive rights organizations, and in 1969 she helped found what is now Naral Pro-Choice America.
In recent years, Mrs. Smith remained involved with Naral Pro-Choice New York and the...
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Heated Exchanges in Gay Marriage Trial
RT @CBSNews
Allowing same-sex couples to get married would improve the well-being of children raised by gay parents but should not be pursued as social policy because it would further weaken marriage as an institution, the head of a private think tank testified during a federal trial challenging California’s gay marriage ban. David Blankenhorn, president of the New York-based Institute for...
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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
therecipe:
(via entermysoul) Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday to you!
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