July 2011
225 posts
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…
Quick Hit Headlines: There's Only One Pledge that... →
quickhits:
The head of the anti-tax taliban, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, just blinked.
Washington Post: WITH A HANDFUL of exceptions, every Republican member of Congress has signed a pledge against increasing taxes. Would allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire as scheduled in…
Terrorist tried, convicted, and executed by US... →
quickhits:
Man executed for killing clerk in post-Sept. 11 retaliation (AP)
Non-facebook link to phonebanking for Shelly Moore...
bluecheddar:
dccc.org
Phone Banking for Shelly Moore with Jon Bauman (Bowzer) from Sha Na Na
Thursday, July 21 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm, River Falls Office
120 S. Main, created by
Benjamin Plunkett
Hang out with oclassic rockers as we work to return good old fashioned honest government to Wisconsin.
Quick Hit Headlines: News Roundup for 7/21/11 →
quickhits:
Totally not-insane Rep. Allen West greeting visitors to his office -Headline of the Day- “West: Wasserman Schultz And Dems Attack Me Because I’m A Black Conservative.” When Allen West let his rage get away from him, it got him into a little hot water. After Debbie Wasserman…
“There are only a few very rich people, not because the rest of us aren’t trying...”
– Reverend Manny (via charlesbivona)
Welcome to the realities of long-term unemployment →
downbutnotoutletters:
Back in June, The Lookout put out the call for readers who had been unemployed for six months or longer to write in with their stories. We received over a thousand emails and around 5,000 comments. Zack’s got a write up of the picture we got of the long-term unemployment crisis after going…
Colbert: Perry prayer event ‘erases’ line between... →
Medicare’s 46th Anniversary Events →
#ScottWalker Walker is scheduled to be at the...
bluecheddar:
Please feel free to share with others to get the word out etc. Our Governor is coming to a public venue. Cream puffs, deep fried pickles and a Walker protest! - Originally alerted by the Sara Schulz Show on facebook
*sigh* @WPR said that gov't shutdown is over in...
bluecheddar:
Assumption being WI has no idea MN is neighbor? Plan to turn us into Wississippi must have accelerated while I wasn’t looking.
Mrs Blaspheming Bitch: Support no co-pays for your... →
sanityscraps:
unhurriedheart:
Today, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended that birth control be considered a preventive health service and therefore be covered by health plans without co-pays for millions of women. This is one of the biggest victories for women’s health in a…
child runs onto road, BLACK mother convicted of... →
ladyatheist:
weexist-weresist:
fuckyeahfeminists:
The story of Raquel Nelson, an Atlanta woman who witnessed her four year old son killed by a drunk driver and was subsequently convicted of vehicular manslaughter is the ‘Outrage of the week’ over at Lenore Skenazy’s blog Free Range Kids. And, frankly, what I feel about it is a shit-ton of outrage.
…What isn’t mentioned in Skenazy’s account...
Quick Hit Headlines: Tea Party Freshmen's Phony... →
quickhits:
You could call it hypocritical, mostly because it is. Tea Party freshmen who claim to be all about cutting spending are practicing an “austerity for you, but not for me” approach to government funding. Elected on a platform of cutting government to the bone, they’ve since gone on to make…
“The First Amendment was written neither to guarantee freedom of religion to...”
– American Family Association spokesman and demagogue royale Bryan Fischer, trying to see how many feet he can get into his mouth.
Our only question: If this is how he mangles the meaning of a single 45-word sentence, what’s that say about his interpretation of the Scriptures?
(h/t Joe.My.God.) 