August 2011
103 posts
“This deal trades peoples’ livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable...”
– Rep. Raul Grijalva heads the 74-member Congressional Progressive Caucus. - Liberal Democratic leader says won’t back debt deal - Reuters (via brooklynmutt)
July 2011
225 posts
Walker Gave No-Bid Legal Contract to Major Donor,... →
quickhits:
wisconsinforward:
Scott Walker authorized payment to Michael Best & Friedrich of up to $500,000; to date, the firm has billed Wisconsin nearly $100,000. Scott Walker has provided no explanation for why this contract is appropriate and has yet to respond to open record requests seeking information. Not surprisingly, the state’s largest paper (and Walker endorser), the Milwaukee...
Rosa Parks essay reveals rape attempt →
Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” she wrote a detailed and harrowing account of nearly being raped by a white neighbor who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931.
‘ I think anonymity on the Internet has to go...
bluecheddar:
Randi Zuckerberg, marketing director of Facebook
BREAKING: Debt deal calls for up to $2.8 trillion... →
cognitivedissonance:
The framework of a tentative deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling calls for up to $2.8 trillion in total deficit reduction over the next decade, two sources familiar with the negotiations told CNN late Saturday night.
The agreement, still being negotiated by the White House and bipartisan congressional leaders, would allow the debt ceiling to be raised by enough to last...
"your government’s continued recklessness is...
bluecheddar:
world reacts to debt ceiling debacle - ThinkProgress
"This pissing contest, that has been going on
leftish:
…it seems like forever now, has reached that awkward moment that a pissing contest reaches, where everyone is out of piss, and now they’re just standing there with their dick in their hands.
It’s a little embarrassing.”
~ Bill Maher
“The figure of the tyrant-monster is known to the mythologies, folk traditions,...”
– Joseph Campbell, A Hero With A Thousand Faces. Thought this was beautiful and true… seems the characteristics of today’s “powerful few” are well-defined here - uncontrollable impulse to acquisition, the hoarders of general benefit. Though-provoking, anyway. (via caleblund)
“[I] won’t place one more dollar of debt upon the backs of my kids.”
– Tea Party deficit-hawk Rep. Joe Walsh, who’s currently being sued for over $100,000 in unpaid child support. (via quickhits)
Ranks of hungry children swell, worrying doctors -... →
sarahlee310:
Before the economy soured in 2007, 12 percent of youngsters age 3 and under whose families were randomly surveyed in the hospital’s emergency department were significantly underweight. In 2010, that percentage jumped to 18 percent, and the tide does not appear to be abating, said Dr. Megan Sandel, an associate professor of pediatrics and public health at BMC.
“Food is costing...
Quick Hit Headlines: Say it With Me; John Boehner... →
quickhits:
Seriously, what the hell is Sir John of Orange doing? Last night, Boehner finally had to abandon his attempt to get his debt limit bill passed, because he couldn’t get enough votes in the House to push it through. But that’s OK, because there was no way in hell the Senate was going to pass…
“Let me just say, he [Paul Krugman] is influential because if you’re a blogger,...”
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Joe Scarborough on Paul Krugman, “The article that had Scarborough all riled up — “The Centrist Cop-Out” — was published yesterday.” - Mediaite (via brooklynmutt)
What’s funny here is that Krugman’s a Nobel Prize-winning economist and Scarborough’s the host of MSNBC’s version of Romper Room. And...
Quick Hit Headlines: News Roundup for 7/29/11 →
quickhits:
Bill Nye reacts to a question on Fox News -Headline of the Day- “Bill Nye Explains To Fox News Moon Volcanoes Don’t Cause Global Warming.” You might think that’s one of Wonkette’s typical comically hyperbolic headlines, but it’s actually pretty damned close to the mark. See, Bill Nye…
Another thing Breivik and the US right have in... →
quickhits:
Anders Behring Breivik and the Crisis of Legitimacy
| What Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and American “birthers” have in common. (Slate)
Quick Hit Headlines: News Roundup for 7/27/11 →
quickhits:
GOP’s new symbol -Headline of the Day- “House Republicans Revolt Against Boehner Debt Plan.” Who’s the leader of House Republicans? Turns out it’s not Speaker of the House John Boehner. In fact, it’s looking a lot like it’s nobody. Remember how Boehner went on the teevee to tell…
MNpublius: More proof that "voter ID" is about... →
mnpublius:
I’ve been up in arms all year over MNGOP efforts to take away Minnesotans’ voting rights. Their so-called “voter ID” law would spend millions of dollars to stop Minnesotans from voting. What’s worse, it wouldn’t prevent a single case of what the GOP calls voter fraud.
And that’s just for…
Recall Walker Signs Showing Up In Walker's... →
Not sure about that "congressional websites...
quickhits:
The only source I can find is in a comment thread on Huffington Post.
“Boehner’s comments this morning — “I and my Republican colleagues are prepared...”
– Steve Benen (via quickhits)
Walker tries to lie his way out of political mess... →
theamericanbear:
The continuing adventures of right-wing corporate mascot, Scott Walker, from John Nichols:
[Governor Scott] Walker…is clearly starting to feel the heat of a Wisconsin summer gone awry.
After he got out of the Denver airport and finally made it to Salt Lake City for the Governors Association gathering, Walker gave interviews in which he talked about how he had made “mistakes”...
Obama Weighs in on Constitutional option →
shihtzuman:
President Obama hosted a town-hall event in College Park, Maryland, this morning, and much of the discussion naturally turned to the debt-ceiling fiasco unfolding on Capitol Hill. Of particular interest, though, was an exchange about the so-called “Constitutional Option.”
The Writer's Notebook: My Official Birthday #Poem:... →
charlesbivona:
Child of the Moon By Pablo Neruda
Everything here is alive, working at something, fulfilling itself without thought of my patience; yet when the track was laid down a hundred years ago I never winced for the cold; my heart, soaking in rain under the skies of Cautín never ventured so much as a…
